Re: How do “married off” daughters take care of their parents
Please can you elaborate on where in the Quran it says that joint family is unislamic? I am no expert on religion but that statement does not appeal to my common sense.
^that’s a very good point you brought up, Arshad. Joint family system is primitive south Asian culture. It’s older than Mughal invasion of NW India now pakistan. No other Muslim country follows this custom so yes I would say it’s very Hindu in nature. However, I have seen pakistan Muslims arguing with middle easterners of how this is islamically ok. Needless to say, they don’t agree and never will. All abrahamic religions advise to not live with inlaws as it creates problems and it’s harder to bond as a couple with inlaws living in the same household. Like I said in another post that it’s so embedded in Pakistani society that even most Muslim women defend it and think that their inlaws have rights over them. It’s sad that women don’t even know their rights because there’s ^no awareness.