A runaway slave

The effects of separation between the spouses

Proprieties of polygamy


To become a widower
Widowed


The Qur'anic verses concerning the `Iddah [waiting period]


Dowry
Dower

To marry

Who deserves maintenance most

The mother's right to her child's custody

Taking a foundling

To nurse
To suckle
To breast-feed

Widower

Widow

To emancipate
To set free
To release from bondage

The best slaves

Types of divorce

Minimum dowry

Minimum and maximum amount of dower

Maximum dowry

The most honorable dower
The best dowry

Phrases of divorce

Phrases of Al-Zhihar


Umm Walad : A term used in Islamic law for a female slave who has borne a child to her
master, and who is consequently free at his death

Slave woman
Slave girl
Bondwoman

The slave's property

To beget
To give birth to

People
A family or household
Kin
Kinfolk


People of two different religions
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Capacity of exercise


Capacity of disposition

Capacity to use a slave


Capacity of obligation

Incomplete capacity


Pregnant women


Blood relatives
One's kins


Sexually potent men

Unmarried men or women

,
Widow
Widower

To widow
To cause to become a widow

The permissibility of divorce


Exempting the suitor from paying a dower
Relieving the husband from paying a dowry

Having sexual intercourse with one's wife

To practice anal sex with one's wife

Verification of lineage

Ascertainment of death

Ihsan : A legal term referring to sticking to virtuousness by marriage

The wife falsely attributing a son to her husband

,
Breast-feeding

Adoption of Islam by one of the spouses

Declaration of divorce

Reconciliation
Establishing a close relation between

Helping Al-Mukatab pay for his freedom

Emancipation of slaves
Setting slaves free
Releasing slaves from bondage

Releasing a joint slave from bondage

Releasing an unbeliever from bondage or promising to do so

Publicizing marriage
Announcement of marriage


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Acknowledgment of paternity

Forcing a woman to marry

Paternal affiliation : Attributing the paternity of a baby to his or her parents

Tracing one's descent to one's father



Attributing the child born after Li`an to his mother

Illegitimate son
Bastard
Whoreson
Love child

Gathering the two spouses involved in Li`an

To have a wet dream

To attain puberty
To reach sexual maturity

Circumcision of the adult

Choosing a woman to marry
Selecting a wife


Choosing a righteous woman for marriage


Saving for the family's provision

Hiring a wet nurse

Taking the virgin's permission in marriage

Taking the husband's permission to go outside the house





Taking the husband's permission regarding the wife's expenses

Consulting a previously married woman in marriage again

To seek a wet nurse for (a child)

To ask (a woman) to suckle (a child)

To enslave
To enthrall

Enslavement
Enthrallment
Subjugation

Releasing from bondage by drawing a lot

Stipulating that the husband should be a Muslim

To separate oneself from

To remove oneself from

A woman in her menopause

Desirable names

Undesirable names

Mourning

Mourning over someone other than the husband
Ihsan by marrying a female slave

Sexual desire
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Lust



Understandable sign
Intelligible sign

Reconciling spouses



Reconciling the recalcitrant woman and her husband

Drawing lots among wives before traveling

Spending of the best property

Spending from others' property

Spending in charity protects one from Hell

,







Bequeathing : Leaving a legally valid will appointing a guardian to dispose financial affairs or
to care for one's household

Ila' : A husband's oath not to have a sexual intercourse with his wife for a certain period

Having a wet dream
Attaining puberty

,





Asking for permission
Consulting
Taking the permission






,


Istibda` : A certain form of adultery in which a man sends his wife to another one to conceive
by him

Being screened during sexual intercourse


Asking Allah for proper guidance regarding betrothal
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Consultation regarding betrothal

Moderation in deciding on dower

Moderate determination of dower

Applying kohl during the mourning period

Expenses of marriage

Virginity

Consummating marriage

Saying the Adhan and the Iqamah in the baby's ear

Abstinence from marriage

Adoption : To take voluntarily the child of other parents as one's own child

Kindness toward one's wife

Woman's adornment for suitors after her `Iddah



Equality among children in giving

Dealing with a recalcitrant wife

Separating between children in bed

Separation between the two parties involved in Li`an

Nicknaming

Leniency toward slaves

Adopting good manners with slaves

Whoever denies his own son

Cutting off the sexual organ of a man

Sexual intercourse
Coition

Marriage to two sisters at the same time

Marriage to a woman and her daughter at the same time

Marriage to a woman and her maternal aunt at the same time

Marriage to a woman and her paternal aunt at the same time

Mourning woman

People guarding their chastity

Pregnant woman

Exhortation to spend money
Exhortation to marry

Al-Hajr [Interdiction] : A legal term which signifies an interdiction of legal competence or
action with respect to a particular person, because of any of three reasons: infancy, insanity
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and bondage

Interdicting a mentally retarded person of his legal capacity

Interdicting a juvenile of his legal capacity

Unlawfulness to marry someone because of marriage relationship

Custodianship over children

Pregnancy

Hiring a servant for one's wife

Suitor
Fiance

Proposing to a woman already betrothed to another man

Al-Khul` : Divorcing one's wife in return of money (which she pays)

Descendant
Offspring

Privacy with the husband's male relatives

Privacy with a woman

Staying alone with a woman

Privacy with the woman whose husband is absent

Hermaphrodite : One having the reproductive organs and many of the secondary sex
characteristics of both sexes

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Supplication to be said at marriage

Invoking Allah's blessing on children

Adopted son or child

Dwelling
Residence

Men are the protectors and maintainers of women

Returning to one's divorced wife

Mercy towards children

Accepting an unsuitable suitor's proposal

Wet-nursing

Wet-nursing that prohibits marriage

Slavery
The servitude of a slave

Void marriage

Giving a kernel of gold as dower

Marriage without dower

Considering one's adoption of Islam as dower

Releasing from bondage being considered dower
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Marriage to a non-Muslim woman

Two spouses
Couple

Matrimony

Exceeding the limit of four wives

Female slaves

Traveling without the company of a Mahram (for women)

Al-Safah [Profligacy] : A legal term which signifies unwise disposition of affairs, especially as
far as money is concerned

Conditions of emancipation


Conditions of the contract of manumission
Witnesses for wet-nursing

Witnesses of marriage

Father-in-law
Relative by marriage

Irrevocable divorce

Minor irrevocable divorce : To divorce one's wife revocably, but leave her until her `Iddah is
over. In this case he may marry her again, but with a new dowry and new contract

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Major irrevocable divorce : If the husband gives sentence of divorce to his wife a third time, it
is not lawful for him to marry her again, until she would have married another husband.

Divorce by an intelligible sign

Divorce before consummation of marriage

Married woman

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Al-Zhihar : A form of separation between a husband and wife until expiation is fulfilled. It
signifies the man's likening of his wife to a kinswoman unmarriageable to him. The usual
formula is, "You are to me as my mother's back."

Fleeing slave
Fugitive slave

Al-Mudabbar : A slave who is promised to be emancipated after his master's death

Emancipation
Setting slaves free
Manumission
Release from bondage

Once owned, once emancipated


Emancipating slaves in times of good health

Release from Hell

Treating all children with justice
Dealing with all one's children on equal terms

Wedding
Marriage ceremony

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What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh : A phrase always said to urge man be
careful in choosing his wife

Coitus interruptus

Marital association
)1(

Al-`Adl (1) : Being troublesome to the woman to make her ask for divorce
)2(
Al-`Adl (2) : To unjustifiably prevent woman from marriage

Al- `Aqiqah : Sacrifice for the newborn, frequently held on the seventh day after his birth

Household
Dependents
Children

Singing and rejoicing in the wedding

Self-sufficiency
Richness

Furniture

Weaning




Allotting nights for the newly married wife

Apportioning among wives

One who can work and earn
Breadwinner

Al-Qiyafah [Physiognomy] : Acknowledging the lineage of an infant by comparing his
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physical appearance with his father's

Guardian : One who is legally in charge of the estate of a minor or a legally interdicted person

Fitness : The husband should be adequate to or higher than his wife in terms of lineage,
religion and social status

Fitness in freedom

Fitness in religion

Fitness in richness

Fitness in lineage

Li`an : A form of separation that happens between a husband and wife after an oath which is
taken by both couple if any of them accuses the other of committing adultery

Foundling : A deserted or abandoned child of unknown parentage


Marriage official

Touching


Money or property given to a divorced woman

The two parties of Li`an

Safeguarding the orphan's wealth

One who is interdicted of legal capacity

Women unlawful to be married because of a relationship by suckling
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Women unlawful to be married because of marriage relationship

Women unlawful to be married because of blood relationship

Married man

Al-Muhallil : One who marries a woman divorced thrice with the intention of divorcing her
as well so that the first husband may marry her again

Pains of child-birth


Righteous wife
Virtuous woman

Equal treatment of one's wives


Marriage kinship
Relation by marriage

Lying with a woman

Having a sexual intercourse with a woman
Having a carnal contact with a woman
Coitus
opulation





Doing harm to one's wife

Freed male slave

Freed slave
Slave released from bondage

Emancipator
One who sets a slave free
One who releases a slave from bondage

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Al-Mukatab : The slave who has a contract of manumission

Paying for manumission in installments

The person under coercion
The person under duress

Freed slaves

Newborn baby

Being inclined to any of one's wives

Secret discourse
Secret consultation

Lineage
Parentage
escent

Looking at a woman

Providing for a woman during her `Iddah

Marriage
Matrimony

Prohibition of celibacy : Celibacy is the abstinence from marriage, especially for religious
vows

Prohibition of Temporary Marriage
Guardianship of an orphan

Guardian
Trustee

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The command to do good to one's wife

Agency in marriage

Loyalty without the master's permission

Childbirth

Guardianship in the marriage contract

) (

Verification of parentage is by marriage

A son is his father's property

Next of kin
Guardian

Orphan
Parentless

The child's descent from

To have sexual intercourse with one's wife
To sleep with one's wife

For right cause

To be irrevocably divorced

Virgin
Maiden

Maidenhood
Virginity

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Spouse
Husband
Consort

Virgin
Maiden

To attain puberty
To come of age

Pubic hair as a sign of adulthood

Sonhood
Filiation

Filial

To consummate marriage with a woman

Marital house
Conjugal home

Husband's house



Postponing or hastening the payment of dower

To live in celibacy
To abstain from marriage

To adopt a son



Preparing the bride's trousseau

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Birth control


Defining the sex of the newborn

Setting a slave free

Releasing a slave from bondage

Chastity




The child's right to choose his guardian


Upbringing of children

Withdrawing from betrothal

To take (a woman) unlawfully in marriage

To commit adultery
To fornicate

Divorce
Divorcement

Naming the newborn



Setting a slave free without stipulating his loyalty


Complete authority of disposition

Having more than one guardian

Polygamy

Conditional pronunciation of the divorce

Educating children
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Changing names




Modification and revocation of a will

Kissing



Kissing and carrying children

Giving nicknames to the newborn

The wife's relinquishment of her provision

Waiving provision

Collusion of wives

The dress of a mourning woman during her `Iddah

Previously wedded woman

Female slave
Slave-girl
Servant


Making a usufruct as dower

Detention
Withholding

Withholding the woman's dower

Interdiction

To interdict

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Deprivation of liberty
Withholding freedom

To let free
To release from bondage
To emancipate

Unlawfulness of marriage to one's step-daughter

One's wife

Unlawfulness of marriage to the father's wife

Freedom of choosing a wife

The freedom of a foundling


The freedom and slavery of Al-Mukatab


Making a good choice in selecting a wife


Good companionship with one's wife
Good marital relationship

To be chaste and decent

Taking care of the husband and his household




Right of wet-nursing and its sanctity
The husband's right

Wife's duties toward her husband

The wife's rights over her husband

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The right of alimony


The right of guardianship
The rights of a servant

The slave's rights

Parents' rights



Parents' rights over their children

Conjugal rights

Reciprocal rights


Shaving the baby's head

Husband
Spouse

Wife
Spouse

Protection of offspring

Circumcising the newborn

The wife's labor in her house

Lover
Friend




Woman's going out for necessity during her `Iddah
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Verdure growing in manure : A term often said of a beautiful woman of bad origin

Betrothal
Engagement

Betrothing a woman during her `Iddah

Speech delivered before concluding a marriage contract

Fiancee

Share of happiness

Option of puberty : When a wife, who had been married young, reaches the legal age she has
right to decide whether to continue with her husband or to be divorced.

Option of releasing from bondage : When a married female slave is released from bandage,
she has the right either to decide to continue with her husband or to be divorced.

To consummate marriage

Pious woman

Consummate his marriage with her

Telling what occurs between the couple
Disclosure of the couple's secrets

Women and children going to the wedding


To take her back
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To revoke the divorce

Step daughter

Revocation of divorce
Giving the orphan's property back

Maturity : A characteristic of full development, either mental or physical

Contentment
Satisfaction
Consent
Approval



Woman's approval of a suitor

To suck the mother's milk

A slave should care for his master's property



Woman riding on a camel behind a Mahram

Marriage : The legal union of a man and woman as a husband and wife

Al-Shighar marriage : A prohibited form of marriage in which persons exchange their
daughters or sisters without dowry

Invalid marriage

Marriage by compulsion

Inter-sect marriage
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Legal marriage

Valid marriage

To give in marriage
To wed
To join together


Prohibited marriages

Covering one's `Aurah [prescribed parts of the body] except before the wives

Withdrawal of guardianship

To divorce
To dissolve marriage

The slave's work

To make a fool of (any one)

To render foolish

Lost person
Conditions of Khul`

Conditions of concluding a marriage contract

Marital dispute

Lustful
Sensual
Carnal

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Wife
Consort
Spouse

Dowry : Money or property brought by a bridegroom to his bride at marriage

Dower of the wife involved in Li`an

Deferred dower

Advance dower
The form of a marriage contract

Fellow wives
Punishing a servant for discipline

Beating the duff [hand drum] in the wedding

Beating the woman

Obeying the husband

Obeying one's husband in committing sin




Wife's obedience to her husband

Obedience to one's parents

Divorced


Women's habits and morals


Legitimate child
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Illegitimate child
Whoreson
Bastard
A baby born out of wedlock

Divorce : The legal dissolution of a marriage

Innovative Divorce : The husband pronouncing divorce by using one or more phrases during
the wife's period of purity from menses, or divorcing her once in a time of purity but in which
they have sexual intercourse.

Divorce by authorization : Giving one's wife a temporary right of choice whether to divorce
herself or to continue with the husband

Three simultaneous pronouncements of divorce

The Sunnah Divorce : To divorce one's wife once in her period of purity from menses in
which they had no sexual intercourse









Escape Divorce : To divorce one's wife irrevocably during death's illness to deprive her from
inheritance








Implicit Divorce : Using implicit phrases to express divorce, as one's saying to his wife, "You
are free"

Unintentional divorce

Non-deliberate divorce
Obliviously uttered divorce

Divorce by mutual consent

Irrevocable divorce

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Approved divorce : To divorce one's wife in her period of purity from menses during which
he had no sex with her, and to continue as thus until her waiting period is over





Revocable divorce : To pronounce divorce only once or twice with the right to revoke it
provided the woman's `Iddah is not over

Oral divorce

Divorce for property : The wife pays money to the husband for divorcing her

Conditional divorce



Asking for divorce



The desire to get children

One revocable divorce pronouncement

Supporter of a family
Family provider
Breadwinner


To live with
To associate with

Maternal affection

Disobedient to one's parents

Barren
Sterile



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Emancipation of a pregnant slave

Releasing a pregnant female from bondage


Son's emancipation of his parents
A son releasing his parents from bondage


Emancipation of a bastard slave
Releasing a bastard slave from bondage

,
`Iddah : Woman's prescribed waiting period after divorce or death of husband

The `Iddah [waiting period] in case of Al-Khul`


The waiting period for a widow


Virgin
Maiden

Proposing a woman to suitors


Bachelorhood
Celibacy
Bond of marriage

To take away the ornaments and jewels of a woman

The capital importance of the spouses' rights : Mutual rights and duties between spouses are
so great that they should be keen to fulfill it in the best way possible

Contract of marriage

Marriage contract



Concluding marriage contract in the mosque

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To conclude a marriage contract

To marry a woman
The tie of marriage

Sterility
Barrenness

To be barren (a woman)

Barren
Childless (a man or woman)

Matrimonial relationship

Middle-aged

Poverty

The sexually impotent men

Suckling period

The fugitive slave
The slave running away
Ending of marriage
Dissolution of marriage

Weaning : To accustom the young to take nourishment other than by suckling

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Family
Relations

Dissolution of marriage

The merit of emancipating slaves
The merit of releasing slaves from bondage

Merit of the sacrifice for the newborn


The merit of will

The virtue of being guardian of an orphan

Freeing a slave
Emancipation
Manumission

Married to someone
Under someone's custody

Able to support
Able to give expenditure

Competent to depose




Law of personal status

Acceptance of the gift


To dissolve marriage


Breaking ties with one's kins

Paucity of men



Saying to one's wife, "Go to your family"

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Saying to one's wife, "Your bond is in your hand"

Saying to one's wife, "You are forbidden to me"

People
Group of people

Marriage contract

Plenty of women



The husband's hatred of his wife


The wife's hatred of her husband

Undesirability of divorce

Ingratitude to one's spouse

How Li`an occurs

Man's touching of women unmarriageable to him

Financial acts permitted to the guardian

The husband's property
The orphan's property

Sexual intercourse

Complete eunuch

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One who became of age

One who attained maturity
Sexually mature

Women unmarriageable to certain men : Those female persons with whom it is not lawful to
conclude a marriage contract

Married woman

Fiancee
Engaged

Mourning period


The duration of the widow's waiting period

Suckling mother
Breast-feeding woman



The son's responsibility toward his father's house

The house of a divorced woman during her waiting period



The child's resemblance to his parents

Legality of betrothal

Legality of Li`an


Legality of circumcising the newborn

Divorced man

Divorced woman
Divorcee

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Thrice divorced


Social intercourse
Carnal contact
Copulation
Intimacy

A widow or a divorced woman in her waiting period

,

Woman in suspense : She is neither married nor divorced, her husband does not sleep with
her

Woman whose husband is absent

Woman with an absent husband


Number of sacrificial animals for the newborn

The amount of the marriage banquet

Place of mourning

Where to spend the waiting period

Caressing children

Homeless

One whose divorce is not valid

Dowry : Property or money paid, whether in advance or deferred, by a husband to his wife at
marriage

Dower of the like
Proper dower

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Death of one of the spouses

The death of Al-Mukatab

Donation
Gift

The newborn's resemblance to his father

Lineage of the child born after Li`an

Nushuz [The wife's violation of marital duties] : Any of the two spouses' denial of his
obligations towards or maltreatment of the other


Woman's looking at a man

The family expense

The alimony of an irrevocably divorced woman

Spending on one's wife
The wife's alimony

Marriage to a virgin


Marriage to a slave girl

Marriage to a previously married woman



Marriage in the pre-Islamic era



Marriage to an adulteress

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Marriage to a slave
Marriage to a barren woman

Marriage to a woman from the People of the Book

Temporary marriage : A marriage concluded for a limited period, for a certain sum of money

Marriage to a chaste woman

Marriage to a polytheist woman

Marriage to a widow or a divorced woman during her `Iddah

Marriage to a woman who is near in age

Choosing an affectionate and fertile woman as a wife

Marriage to an orphan woman

Marriage to a polytheist woman who embraced Islam

Kernel of gold

Donation
Gift

A wife offering her night to another

Deserting

Deserting one's wife

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Betrothal presents

The slave's duties

Dividing nights among one's wives is obligatory



Describing a woman to a man

Preaching the two spouses involved in Li`an

Advising one's wife



Time of wet-nursing that forbids marriage

Time of naming the newborn

Considering Khul` as one divorce pronouncement

Wala' [Al-Wala'] : A slave's loyalty to his master after being emancipated

The loyalty of a foundling


Bastard
Whoreson
Love child
Illegitimate son

Child born after Li`an
Marriage banquet

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