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The sharia is like a candle," said Shams of Tabriz. "It provides us with much valuable light. But let us not forget that a candle helps us to go from one place to another in the dark. If we forget where we are headed and instead concentrate on the candle, what good is it?
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― The Forty Rules of Love
― The Forty Rules of Love
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More than the reprehensible daraba, the demeaning halala comprehensively captures Islamic social degradation. If wife's sexual straying could invite triple-talq, halala ensures man's acquiescence to his woman sleeping with another, even where civil remarriage is a viable option.
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