TOC: Islamic Family Life

Islamic Family Life

Publisher's Foreword

Part 1
The Family

-Importance of a Family Code

-Islam and the Family System

-Family Pillars

-Joint Family and Separate Family Systems

-Joint Family System: its Advantages and Disadvantages

-Separate Family System: its Advantages and Disadvantages

-The Wise System of Islamic Society

- Seclusion of Women

Part 2
Parents And Children

- Why so much Emphasis on the Rights of Parents?

-Rights of Children

-Three Stages of Life

-Instruction for the Three Stages

-Rights of Parents

-The Similarity Between the Financial Rights of Almighty Allah and Parents

-According to the Right of Love

-According to the Right of Obedience

-Superiority of Mother's Rights

-The Qur'an and the Gospels

Part 3
Marital Affairs

-Mutual Rights of Husband and Wife

-Natural Spheres of Activities of Man and Woman

-Benefits of Marriage

-Islamic Boundary Line

-The Rights of the Husband

-Man and Woman: Physical Differences

- A Woman's Place is at Home

-Husband: Metaphorical Lord

-Obedience Based on Love

-Domestic Management

-Love and Good Grace

-Right of Maintenance

-Misunderstandings and Conflicts

-When the Wife is at fault

-When the Husband is at fault

-When both are at fault

-Talaq, Khul`, Mubarat

-Conditions of Divorce

-Divorce: The most disliked permission

Part 4
Relatives

- Rights of Other Relatives

-The Virtues of “Silat ar-rahm” according to Qur'an and Traditions

-The Evils of Severing Relationship

-Circle of Ar-rahm

-Ways of Silat ar-rahm

Part 5
Rights of Neighbours

-Rights of Neighbours