Who needs a man!

[ScimitarXEdge]

What is wrong with a Muslim woman marrying 4 men, or marrying an Atheist or a Hindu?

it's self destructive

[faye]

?????

if you don't want anything to do with men why would you want to marry multiple men????

God loves me, I feel it, and therefore I am right. Nothing anyone can say will change that.
I will propagate the idea that we need to do as we please. It will only be a matter of time before a female prophet appears. The monopoly of men is about to come to an end. Sucks to be all of you. We will put all of you under a veil, and we will marry as many of you as possible.

[Abeille]

XEdge, But the Quran does not say you can't.

[ScimitarXEdge]

Abeillie; but as an Ismaili Hindustani female, it really shouldn't matter what you do? You're not apart of mainstream Islam, if Islam at all.

[Abeille]

if you don't want anything to do with men why would you want to marry multiple men????

You will never know a feminist, honey. You are going off tangent.

[Abeille]

Abeillie; but as an Ismaili Hindustani female, it really shouldn't matter what you do? You're not apart of mainstream Islam, if Islam at all.

Being a Muslim feminist, I have a different purpose.

[ScimitarXEdge]

XEdge, But the Quran does not say you can't.

Qur'an does say that everything was decided according to how God made our nature " faqim wajhaka li deeni hanifan fitrata Allahi allati fitara al nasi (Surah Al-Rum:30). And we know biologically women are not physiologically adapted for such acts. So it in fact would be against the Qur'an.

[ScimitarXEdge]

Being a Muslim feminist, I have a different purpose.

You can't be a Muslim feminist if you're Ismaili, because you have deified a man named Agha Khan

nice try.

[BarakzaiAbdali]

It's not that, Abeilie and I have a semi-history together, she stalked me, I threatened to call the authorities on her. Good times.

Wrorre, I think she likes you.

Btw, here are the comparisons of that ayaah I spoke of regarding the creation of the female:

O mankind! Be careful of your duty to your Lord Who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate and from them twain hath spread abroad a multitude of men and women. Be careful of your duty toward Allah in Whom ye claim (your rights) of one another, and toward the wombs (that bare you). Lo! Allah hath been a watcher over you. (1-Pikthall)

O mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord Who created you from a single person, created, of like nature, his mate and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women;― fear Allah, through Whom ye demand your mutual (rights) and (reverence) the wombs (that bore you): for Allah ever watches over you.` (1- Yusuf Ali)

O ye mankind! fear your Lord; Who created you of a single soul and He created the reef the spouse thereof, and of the twain He spread abroad men manifold and women. And fear Allah by Whom ye importune one anot her, and the wombs. Verily Allah is ever over you a Watcher. (1-daryaabadi)

O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife [Hawwa (Eve)], and from them both He created many men and women; and fear Allâh through Whom you demand (your mutual rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship)[]. Surely, Allâh is Ever an All¬Watcher over you. (1-Mohsin)

Yusuf Ali goes on to write in his tafsir:

"nafs may mean: 1) soul, 2) self, 3) person (living person), (4) will, good pleasure as in 4:4 below. Minha: I follow the construction suggested by Imam Razi. The particle min would then suggest here not a portion of something else, but a species, a nature, a similarity. The pronoun ha refers to nafs."

[Abeille]

You can't be a Muslim feminist if you're Ismaili, because you have deified a man named Agha Khan

nice try.

I don't represent him or Ismailis.

[ScimitarXEdge]

I don't represent him or Ismailis.

heh you don't represent Muslims either, owned

[BarakzaiAbdali]

I don't represent him or Ismailis.

Abeille,

There is a gentleman who endorsed Islam as practiced by the Prophet who was once in the Ismaili schism, his name is Akbar Meherally. I have not read much of his work, but he is active on discussing why he did not feel that the Ismaili theology was inline with what God revealed. Another individual is Yusuf Ali himself who, despite being born into a Bohra family, found his way to Islam. I urge you to read the Quran and the sunnah and then to come to Islam though them (Quran and Sunnah). Perhaps those references will help your transition.

[Abeille]

heh you don't represent Muslims either, owned

You can't tell me whether I am a Muslim or not. Times are changing. We feminist will sanction polyandry and marriages to anyone. Why? Because we feel god. It cannot be an illusion.

[Abeille]

Abeille,

There is a gentleman who endorsed Islam as practiced by the Prophet who was once in the Ismaili schism, his name is Akbar Meherally. I have not read much of his work, but he is active on discussing why he did not feel that the Ismaili theology was inline with what God revealed. Another individual is Yusuf Ali himself who, despite being born into a Bohra family, found his way to Islam. I urge you to read the Quran and the sunnah and then to come to Islam though them (Quran and Sunnah). Perhaps those references will help your transition.

Yusuf Ali was from an Ismaili household?

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Yusuf Ali was from an Ismaili household?

There is an excellent biography about him that is touching in terms of how it characterizes one of the most literary Muslims of the last century, Yusuf Ali, called Searching for Solace. If I remember correctly, he was born into a Dawudi Bohra household from when I read it, or from some other source. I would confirm that though as it has been years since I read on him. However, he traveled far and wide and subsequently, per his literary masterpiece and painstaking efforts, approached the Quran through the works of the Ahle Sunnah like Imam Razi, Bukhari, etc. He continued to have a deep devotion to the household of the Prophet and wrote beautiful tracts on their struggles in the time of Ali etc. However, he tempered it towards a unified ummah as Edge does. Just as Edge feels that Iran and Shiahs can be incorporated as a madhab, it appears Yusuf Ali was married to that idea of unity. So if you admire his translation, and its attempt to take classical sources like the works of Ghazali, Tammiyah, Tirmidhi, Bukhari, Razi, Kathir, Abu Dawud into account as I showed per the ayaah above, then I think that you can see the genesis of Yusuf Ali and his transition from Ismaili toward the Quran in the light of sunnah.