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Aisha

Aisha bint Abu Bakr (RA), was the wife of Muhammad (PBUH), the founder of Islam. She came to be called, “Mother of the Believers.”

Muhammad built Aisha’s (RA) home so that her door opened directly into the mosque. She was the only woman with whom Muhammad (PBUH) received revelations.

She could easily have lived a life of privileged leisure. Instead, she became a highly respected scholar.

She is credited with producing 2,210 Hadith, widely recognized and accepted by Islam, not just on matters related to Muhammad’s (PBUH) private life, but also on topics such as inheritance, pilgrimage, and eschatology.

25% of all Shariah Law is based on her Hadith.

Her intellect and knowledge in a wide range of subjects, were highly praised by early Muslim scholars.

She was known to possess an eidetic memory and piercing intellect.

Far from illiterate, she herself transcribed “The Love Surahs.”

“The Love Surahs” text is the verbatim content of pronouncements made by Muhammad (PBUH) in his last days, as he was confined to his deathbed.

His last breath was taken as he lay in her arms, his most beloved wife.

She lived during the age of Jahiliyya (ignorance) when women were thought less valuable than men.

The traditions regarding Aisha (SA) tell us that she forcefully opposed ideas unfavorable to women in efforts to elicit social change.

There exists substantial evidence that Muhammad (PBUH) did not view himself as superior to Aisha and encouraged her to speak to him candidly, even at the risk of his anger.

Furthermore, Muhammad (PBUH) and Aisha (SA) had a strong intellectual relationship. He valued her keen memory and intelligence, instructing his companions to draw much of their religious practices from her.

Aisha (SA) contributed her scholarly intellect to the fullest development of Islam.

Aisha (SA) was known for her expertise in the Quran, shares of inheritance, matters of law, poetry, Arabic literature, Arab history, genealogy, and medicine.

Her intellectual contributions regarding the verbal texts were transcribed into the official history of Islam.

After the death of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), there were concerns about the accuracy of the Quran’s preservation. Aisha (SA) played a key role in ensuring that knowledge was preserved.

During Aisha’s (SA) entire life she was a strong advocate for the education of Islamic women, especially in law and the wisdom teachings of Islam.

She was known for establishing the first Madrasa (Muslim school) for women in her home. Attending Aisha’s (SA) classes were various family relatives and orphaned children. Men also attended Aisha’s (SA) classes, with a simple curtain separating the male and female students.

Aisha (SA) was also considered to be the embodiment of proper rituals while partaking in the pilgrimage to Mecca, a journey she made with several groups of women. For her last two years of life, Aisha spent much time telling the stories of Muhammad (PBUH), hoping to correct false passages that had influenced formulation of Islamic law.

Aisha (SA) died at her home in Medina on 17 Ramadan 58 AH (16 July 678). She was 67 years old.

The name Aisha (SA) is Arabic in origin and means “she lives.”

“Aisha was the bridge between the time of the prophet and the future of Islam.” —- Resit Haylamaz

“I have never seen anyone who could have knowledge of an ayah, an obligatory act, a Sunnah act, poetry, history, lineage, judgement, or medicine better than Aisha.” –Hisham lbn Urwa

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I now begin to make “The Love Surahs” freely available to all. It has been nearly 1,400 years since these words were first written!

I imagine the moments when Muhammad (PBUH) was on his deathbed, delivering his final messages, attended by his treasured wife, Aisha.

These prophetic words of love, breathed out to his beloved as she wrote them and enriched the future world. Our world.

How honored I am; to offer these beautiful messages of love and wisdom to everyone after so long; words buried and waiting for our eyes and our understanding.

–Adam

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I am a deep fan of Aisha!

The most troubling thing about “traditional” Islam is that it is used to shut down any alternative interpretation that is presented. Like, look around for a second. Arab, Persian, and Desi MEN have historically had a monopoly on how we practice Islam in the present. Which is pretty funny since the very first scholar of Islam is generally thought to be a woman (Aisha). Forgive me for trying to break free of their views from a thousand years ago on how I’m trying to live today. Society changes constantly and, contrary to popular belief, Islam is very much an adaptable religion. It’s not as static as some y’all would like to believe.

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Thank you!

Heyy anon, thanks for reaching out.

You might have seen our other posts but we're unable to directly answer asks so we screenshot it and answer it in a regular post like this.

So, to answer your question, no, God isn't considered male in Islam (imo). The default pronoun in arabic is "he/him". Using they/them suggests a plurality or many gods, which Islam wants to avoid, and the only other option is "it" which sounds ridiculous, so the Quran uses he/him as an arbitrary pronoun.

You could refer to God as he or she and it would make no difference because we see God not as a humanoid deity that controls our world from above, but rather like a sort of consciousness of all the goodness, humanity and love in our world. To go poetic™, I'd say God is like the energy that created our universe (and others, if they exist) and gave life to everything that lives, nourishing it and leading us to goodness. So, if we go by this more abstract definition of God, i think you can see how pronouns, which assign a sex to a living being, become meaningless. I feel that the the only reason we actually refer to God with pronouns is just to make it easier to communicate. So if you would like to refer to God with a female or gender-neutral pronoun, I'd say go ahead. Pronouns do not change the sex of something that has no sex, right?

And as for conservatives, well it might ruffle a few feathers if you refer to God as she, or interchange the pronouns often, but that's due to our patriarchal culture that likes to put a man in control of everything. The mainstream view is that of God as this being that likes to impose strict rules on everything, and we feel Muslims as a whole need to break away from that view.

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Beginning

Today I begin to make “The Love Surahs” freely available to all. It has been nearly 1,400 years since these words were first written!

I imagine the moments when Muhammad (pbuh) was on his deathbed, delivering his final messages, attended by his treasured wife, Aisha.

These prophetic words of love, breathed out to his beloved as she wrote them and enriched the future world. Our world.

How honored I am; to offer these beautiful messages of love and wisdom to everyone after so long; words buried and waiting for our eyes and our understanding.

–Adam