Alpha-Him Jobe – Family in Islam 1
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Islam
means family life in Islam.
And you can see the diagram
is a triangle
with husband,
wife,
and children.
This triangle
is a very important triangle in life, which
is
these
3 members
in one
home.
We can see that
The origin of family
goes back
to the beginning of creation of Adam, alaihis
salam.
So that will show you the importance
of family
in Islam
or
in human life, generally.
Because Allah
established it that way. The fa father and,
Adam as the father of human family
and his, wife, Hawa. So that was the
first family, Adam and and Hawa.
And Allahu Tabarakuatallah
says in Surah Tunisa, which is the beginning
of Surah Tunisa. Surah Tunisa is surah number
4,
ayah 1.
Allah says,
Here, Allah is addressing humankind, human family.
He said,
oh, mankind,
be mindful of your duty to your Lord,
who created you
from a single soul.
And from that soul,
he created its companion.
And from the 2,
he created countless men and women.
Then you have
to fear the one who set that process.
Then he said,
fear Allah through whom you demand your mutual
rights,
and be mindful
of the wound
that bore you. Indeed, Allah
is watching
over you every glance of life.
So Allah is explaining to us
the process of creation
and himself
being the only one who supervise
that
process.
So then we as,
Muslims,
we have to be careful of how to
maintain family life.
We have seen in Sharia
act as main
integrating factor in Islamic community
by planning
the economic,
the political,
the social,
the moral aspect
as it plans
the social life
as and the base and its basis and
values.
At the same time, Islam
and Sharia
establish
and plan
the family as the fundamental unit of social
life.
Because without the family, we cannot establish our
social life.
So then family is the fundamental unit of
our social life,
which founded
on principles
drawn by sharia.
Meaning, if you want to establish that
foundation,
which is the fundamental unit, we have to
go back to sharia
and to ask sharia how to establish
that family.
So the principles
determine, for example,
how the family is formed.
One of the principle, if you go to
sharia, sharia will tell you how to perform,
how to form the family. It's not just
by your own choice and your own way
to form the family. No.
And
the the Sharia will
define the relations between husband and wife.
It's not just the way you want to
set the relations, but sharia will set the
relations
between you and your wife.
And between parents and children,
sharia will establish the rights and the duties
between you and your children
and between you and your parents.
And between members of the nuclear family
of their relatives.
At the same time, Sharia will explain
between you as a
subfamily or
branch
of the main family and how to deal
with the other relatives in the family. All
that
organized
by Sharia.
In Islam,
family is the fundamental base of the social
order.
If we want to give order
to our
humanity,
we have to establish family. You cannot
have community without family.
And without family, there is no social order
whatsoever.
If you don't have family, no social order.
Yes.
And if the family is strong,
the foundation
of the society will be strong.
Then
the the the situation here or the matter
here is the family. Family is the fundamental
base. If we structure the family and
fundamental base. If we structure the family
and,
set the family in a proper way, you
can see
that reflect
to the individual
and the entire community.
If you want to build a model society,
we have to start with the building of
the family.
Because model society cannot establish without the building
of the family.
But the most
important
for us is to question how to build
a family.
There is no need to think about how
to build a country called America. The country
is so big. How to build this country?
What is the constitution?
What is the judicial system? Don't focus on
that. Focus on
how to build a family.
If you know how to build a family,
you will know how to build a community,
and you know how to build a government.
Because family
is the main root
of everything
in human society.
Yes.
There are many expectation
and rights and obligations
prescribed by Allah, enforced
by sharia,
and supposed to be observed by the group
members of the family.
There are many, many, many rights and duties
we have to establish.
Yes.
So those rights and obligations
is in Quran and Sunnah. Prescribed by Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. Then we cannot establish rights
and obligations
in the family
without going back to Al Quran and Sunnah.
Because we are talking about giving rights.
Give
others their rights.
Trying to avoid abusing the rights of others,
because that is the beginning of killing freedom.
Because freedom is sacred.
It's a property of man.
Freedom is a property of yours.
But you have to maintain freedom
not by not to abuse
the rights of others.
If you abuse the rights of others, your
freedom is gone.
So now we we are talking
about family connection.
And this family connection means
humanity building. How to build ourselves as human
family, as one family.
Yes.
Let's talk about the man you have here.
I just honored the man by calling him
the husband,
the wife, and the children.
But basically, it was the man, the woman,
and the child.
But
we don't want to set it that way
because we are talking about family.
And the first member of the family is
the husband. It's not just a man.
Yes. Must be a husband.