Question on Marriage.

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Question on Marriage.
OP - December 24, 2011, 01:46 PM

I learned that under an Islamic rule, a female is considered as a man's property, originally she belongs to her father, but when she is married off to someone, she is now his property.

About the marriage part, what if her father died and she has no elder brother or uncle but her younger brother.I know when it comes to will, he has larger share than her but is she his property and does he have the right to marry her off to anyone he sees fit as her husband

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Re: Question on Marriage.
Reply #1 - December 24, 2011, 09:24 PM

AFAIK any male member of the family owns all females, so the younger brother has to marry off all sisters. They belong to him as cattle. That's Islam!

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Re: Question on Marriage.
Reply #2 - January 10, 2012, 05:58 AM

Yup, you have heard right.

But if you ask Muslims, they will say that Islam was the first religion to give right to a woman to choose a life partner. In Islam, a woman has a right to say yes or no to a marriage proposal. Blah Blah Blah.
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Reply #3 - January 26, 2012, 01:56 PM

I really see a huge disconnect when I read the Quran, the Hadith, Islamic rulings and Islamic laws and then the modern slogans and mantras repeated by modern muslimahs. I mean, how much can words and meaning be twisted? How much of what you they say do they truly understand and have come to their own conclusions without using some "How to be the happiest wife" type of book?
Speaking as an outsider and as a male, I honestly don't know whether it is willfully ignoring what words really say and projecting a more desirable meaning on them or sadistically rationalizing the existence that they buy into? Where does justification end and where does delusion begin?

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Re: Question on Marriage.
Reply #4 - January 26, 2012, 11:07 PM

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I don't see this as the younger brother owns her and will marry her off to whom he sees fit, more that the buck will stop at him on ye old judgement day. Yes, difficult as it is for me to say, Islam seems to give a large chunk of responsibility onto the man. Which means that it is the closest male relatives' responsibility to provide for the women and advise them in choosing a future spouse.

So without to much rambling, Muslim men are charged with caring for the women in their family and making sure they are fed and have a roof over their heads.

I am not an expert on the matter, but this is it as I see it.
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