Tag: Religious Practices
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Do Muslims Worship The Black Stone of the Kaaba ?
I believe that it is time that a response to this rather annoying polemic about the nature of the Black Stone (al-Hajar al-Aswad) and its significance in Islam by those who have an axe to grind about Islam (or otherwise known tenderly as the "Islamophobics") is finally needed. We will look at the common allegations…
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Women In Islam : Islamic Law On Inheritance
Inheritance deals closely with the distribution of wealth, i.e. dealing with the transfer of the property of the deceased to the descendants. In most of the early societies in ancient civilisation, the right to inherit the deceased properties is often given to the eldest son and male relatives. Female relatives are given lesser right to…