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UNIT I

PARENTS AND CHILDBIRTH

Parents must regart their children as blessing from allah (god). Therefore, they should celebrate their birth happily. What father should do to welcoming their newly-born baby. First, he baths his newly-born baby. However, if his wife gives a birth in hospital, then it is the nurse who will bath the baby. Second, he should recite the azan in the right ear and the iqamat in the left ear of his baby; the purpose of this is to infuse faith into the baby that there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger; second he should give a good name to his baby. The prophed Muhammad saw. (peace be upon him) said, “on the day of reckoning you will be called by your names; therefore, have good names”; third he should shave off the hair of his infants on the seventh day after the birth, sacrifice two goats on behalf of a male and one goat on behalf of a female and distribute gold or silver as alms equivalent to the weight of the hair of the baby.

UNIT II

CHOOSING A MARRIAGE PARTNER IN ISLAM

The success or failure of a marriage depends on the couple; the husband and the wife. They make the marriage work or fail, it is up to them. In islam, to make a marriage happy, a muslim should choose his life partner based on the Islamic teaching. Islam teaches muslims some points in choosing a life partner. First, because of her beauty; second, because of her wealth; third, because of  her offspring; and fourth, because of her religion. However, her religion is the most important thing of all. Why ? because the prophet muhammad saw. (peace be upon him) said, “to a man, the most beneficial thing in this world is a pious and obedient wife. Therefore, if a muslim wishes to have a succesfull marriage, he must choose a wife to-be because of her religion. Her beauty and wealth may give temporary pleasure only; but it is a pious wife that will  bring light and mercy into home.

UNIT III

OBLIGATORY BATH IN ISLAM

People usually take a bath two times a day, in the morning and in the afternoon. However, in islam there is a period when a muslim or a muslimat must take an obligatory bath. The obligatory bath goes into effect to a certain group of muslim or muslimats. Who are they? When should they take an obligatory bath? At certain time, a married muslim and a married muslimat must take an obligatory bath. To a husband and a wife, taking a bath is obligatory after sexual intercourse; to a woman in general after her menstruation or her childbirth. To a young man, after his wet dream characterized by discharge of semen. A new convert to islam also must take an obligatory bath as a sign that he has become a muslim.