Women and Double Standards of Chastity

Source: Saudi Life | By – AFIFA JABEEN THERE was a Facebook post a few days back that went ‘viral’. It said: “When she is a DAUGHTER, she opens a door of Jannah for her father, when she is a WIFE, she completes half of the Deen of her husband, when she is a MOTHER, Jannah lies …

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Lost city under Rub al-Khali (Empty Quarter)

Source: http://saudilife.net/ | By – Faraz Omar SAND and only sand for thousands of kilometers extending over four nations, Rub al-Khali or the Empty Quarter is the world’s largest sand desert. Uninhabited one may think but the Bedu tribes have survived on the edge since before recorded time. Sand dunes reach as …

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Why Hijab?

Nobel Peace Prize winner “Tawakkul Karman,” ‘The mother of Yemen’s revolution,’ when asked about her Hijab by journalists and how it is not proportionate with her level of intellect and education, replied: “Man in early times was almost naked, and as his intellect evolved he started wearing clothes. What I …

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