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Posts Tagged ‘marriage’

What Happened To The Sunnah Way Of Marriage?

By Mohammad Yusha • Jan 17th, 2012 • Category: Features

It seems as though to go along with society’s customs, people are willing to compromise with Islamic teachings, specifically the sunnah way of marriage. Even religious people spend enormous amounts of money on their son’s and daughter’s marriages. In this day and age, the sunnah way of marriage seems non-existent. What happened to the sunnah [...]



Polygamy

By Mohammad Yusha • Jul 8th, 2011 • Category: Features

At the time of Prophet Mohammad (SAW) a lot of people were dying due to battles and so Prophet Mohammad (SAW) himself and the Sahaba married many women. The women they married were widows, and many were older than them. Polygamy also helped support the children of these women financially and also gave them a [...]



Late Marriages and Expensive Weddings

By Mohammad Yusha • Mar 14th, 2011 • Category: Features

There are many women in the subcontinent who, in order to have a career, postpone marriage until it becomes too late. Women can surely get married early and have a career after marriage. However, they choose not to, and then problems arise. This is because no one wants to marry a woman over thirty, or [...]



olx.com.pk Pakistani Girls Pictures and Mobile Numbers Mania

By Amna Gilani • Dec 17th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Have you seen the ads about Girls looking for boys in Punjab, girls looking for boys in Lahore, girls looking for boys in Karachi, and then the ads about the dating in Punjab or dating in Pakistan and dosti offers between girls and boys in Pakistan online. I am sure that if you surf the [...]



Marriages: Made In Heaven, Lived In Hell

By Mohammad Yusha • Nov 26th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Every bride leaves teary eyed to her new home hoping that her she will receive the same love from her husband and in-laws that she got from her own family. However, their hopes are crushed brutally. The treatment they are meted with becomes a living nightmare. The daily taunts and abuse are never ending. [...]



Marriage for PLEASURE?

By captainjohann • Jan 10th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Marriage for pleasure?
Saudi Mufti: Saudi Men Need Permit To Marry Foreign Women
Senior Saudi cleric Abd Al-Muhsin Al-’Abikan has issued a fatwa banning Saudi citizens from marrying women who are not residents of the kingdom without obtaining a permit from the authorities.
He stated that marrying foreign women is for pleasure purposes only, and that when this [...]



Shehzad Roy Marriage With VJ Salma : Pictures

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jun 7th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment


The Search For Love, Approval, And Happiness

By Zahid Abdullah • Feb 18th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Love is what you are already. Love doesn’t seek anything. It’s already complete. It doesn’t want, doesn’t need, has no shoulds. It already has everything it wants, it already is everything it wants, just the way it wants it. So when I hear people say that they love someone and want to be loved in return, I know they’re not talking about love. They’re talking about something else.
Seeking love is how you lose the awareness of love. But you can only lose awareness of it, not the state. That’s not an option, because love is what we all are.
I already have everything. We all do



Open Letter of Shahbaz Sharif

By Rohail Butt • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Misc


Taking Care of Your ‘Tilth’

By A Khokar • Aug 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

This is the beauty of the vocabulary of Holy Quran that it uses and arranges the various words along with the parables for the sake of clarity and explanation of its mythology so beautifully and in such a manner that its all addressees, may they be from any time or the age; they are able [...]