ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>MCC Service</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #006633; } --> </style> <script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style6 {color: #006633; font-size: 12px;} .style16 { color: #006633; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; } --> </style> </head> <body> <center> <form name="form1" method="post" action=""> <table width="766" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="8" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#79a38e"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="277" align="center" valign="middle"><table width="766" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><script type="text/javascript"> AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0','width','766','height','277','src','MCCTOP','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','MCCTOP' ); //end AC code </script> <noscript> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="766" height="277"> <param name="movie" value="MCCTOP.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed src="MCCTOP.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="766" height="277"></embed> </object> </noscript> </td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <td align="center" valign="middle">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle"><table class="Content" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td colspan="0" rowspan="0" class="center"><p align="center">&nbsp;</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td bordercolor="#999999" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table width="749" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-top:6px; margin-left:9px"> <tr> <td width="723" class="style6"><h3 align="center"><strong>Gender Relations in the Contemporary World</strong></h3> <h3 align="center"><strong>An Islamic Perspective</strong></h3> <p>Assalamu alaikum.<br /> Fairness demands that the spouse be compensated for anything wrong done to him or her. However, Allah (swt) commands much more than fairness (a dl). He demands ________ (ihsan) from us all. A dl might get things done but good spousal relations demand that the spouses treat each other with ihsan. So said Dr. Israr Ahmad Khan - a Professor, author and a speaker on the Quran and Hadith - to an audience of men and women of all ages at the Muslim Education Center, on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 11. <br /><br /> Each spouse needs to fulfill his/her responsibilities before they can expect their rights. Allah (swt) has said then men are the  qawwam  an administrative leader  for they spend on their wives. If a man does not spend on his wife he cannot demand to be the qawwam. The roles can actually reverse if the woman becomes the partial or full provider, which is not unusual in the contemporary world. On the Quranic verse related to the apparent permission to strike the spouse, Dr. Khan said that the circumstance for that verse is a lewd behavior. The Quran prescribes corporal punishment for adultery many places in the Quran. Therefore, the permission to strike is given to the law enforcement authorities and not to the spouse, Dr. Khan said. <br /><br /> The audience of more than 100 people listened to the speech carefully and asked several probing questions. January program features Prof. Omer Mozaffar speaking on the differences in Islamic curricula that has the potential of causing a split in the community. <br /> <br /> <p align="center"><img src="Announcements/GR_IM1.jpg" width="600" height="353" alt="GR_Image1"></p> <p align="center"><img src="Announcements/GR_IM2.jpg" width="600" height="353" alt="GR_Image2"></p> </p></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#999999" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="padding-top:3px">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="Center">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle"><table class="Bottom" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="style16" style="padding-top:14px">Copyright 2010-2011 &copy; Muslim Community Center All rights reserved.</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table></td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>