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Muhammad played many games with children, joked with them and befriended them. [2] Muhammad also showed love to children of other religions. Once he visited his Jewish neighbor's son when the child was sick. [3] Once, Muhammad was sitting with a child in his lap, and the child urinated over Muhammad. Embarrassed, the father scolded the child.
The leadership ran practices to demonstrate being a proper Muslim woman, which included teaching about motherhood, proper dress and behavior, and relationships. [8] The classes were meant as a way to purity, protect, and support Muslim girls and women, promising shelter from the devil and wicked non-believers. [9] Sister Captains
In one Islamic tradition, Muhammad ran after Hussein, his grandson, in a game until he caught him. [25] He comforted a child whose pet nightingale had died. [26] Muhammad played many games with children, joked with them and befriended them. [27] Muhammad also showed love to children of other religions.
The woman's role in the home, although different from that of men, is also of great value and importance in Islamic culture. In earlier times, from a very young age, girls traditionally grew up in the women's quarters of the house called the harem. The harem was that part of the house where the female members of the family and household lived.
A mufti advises a woman whose son-in-law cannot consummate his marriage (Ottoman illustration, 1721).. Sexuality in Islam contains a wide range of views and laws, which are largely predicated on the Quran, and the sayings attributed to Muhammad and the rulings of religious leaders confining sexual activity to marital relationships between men and women.
There is evidence that Muhammad asked women for advice and took their thoughts into account, specifically with regard to the Quran. Women were allowed to pray with men, take part in commercial interactions, and played a role in education. One of Muhammad's wives, Aisha, played a significant role in medicine, history and rhetoric.
Both versions are preceded by a reference to Surah 27:7, the question why God did not send an angel to accompany Muhammad, suggesting that the author holds the Night Journey to be a response to Muhammad's opponents. [200] Both sources agree that by the time the Journey happened, "Islam had already spread in Mecca and all their tribes."
[29] Muhammad's wives play a prominent role in Islam and Muslim practices; "their reception of specific divine guidances, occasioned by their proximity to Muhammad, endows them with special dignity." [7] They form the basis for the status of women in Islam and are thus important for gender debates and study.