Why the western landscape of the family is fundamentally broken.
Ustad Abedini explains that Western culture is built on dialectics - the idea that everything contains its opposite, and through conflict and struggle a synthesis is created. In this view, the man and the woman are in constant opposition, fighting for dominance.
But the Qur'anic view is completely different: "And of all things We created two partners" (And of all things We created two partners.) -. Surah Adah-Draitha 51:49.
The man and the woman are not rivals. They are complementary. They are two halves of one whole. The child is not a product of conflict - the child is the fruit of their unity. The family is the expression of "the lord of majesty and generosity" - when the man displays divine majesty (Jalal) and the woman reveals divine beauty (Jamal).
When the West attacks the family, it attacks the very reflection of God's names on earth.
November 10, 2026.
Practical Islam - Said Samer Hakim.