Families in Islam

Families in Islam

Introduction

The family is an elastic structure, multiform, changing, can be large or small and show innumerable faces, what's so peculiar, what remains in your background so we can call family to a childless couple, a man with two women and ten children, a young couple with their marriage, a woman alone with her children or even other possible combinations? Only the mutual commitment and the different expectations that keep components together is what remains after the changing scenery in which we see the action unfold from the family through the ages and geographies (O'Connor, 2009).

Discussion

The family is at the head. There is no way to prove that blood is necessarily in charge of supporting connections. However, the blood is in part, is in part the mythology that accompanies it, the point is that the traditional concept of family includes all those people who are related to a greater or lesser extent by blood.

The other side of the coin is the union that is run voluntarily, in an attempt to organize our lives outside of the viscous network that sometimes we feel trapped, ultimately forming another tangle, another nest able to provide the same from other perspective: the best, affection, protection, care, education and transmission of goods, both material and spiritual. A self-perpetuating in the lineage, each generation an update, an updated version (Vom, 2005).

Child Emergence

The child emerges to life in an initial field in which his first forays, their first experiences of safety, fear, satisfaction or dissatisfaction intertwine and connect with people who are the immediate family environment, an environment that made components giving it a particular. And in those early skirmishes by the discovery of the world and oneself sealed the family pact, a pact as sacred as the very existence and is usually maintained until death, the family is an organic compound full of smells, tastes , sounds and other sensory fits: a primitive sensual world indelibly mark us and located in the head and heart.

Sometimes this dense network acquires threatening features; some individuals perceive the pressure of family and suffocating siege, as denying the individuality of style. Sometimes it is difficult to explore the limits of self under the attentive gaze of relatives who seem to read the secrets of the soul. However, if one is determined to make inroads through dangerous terrain or have an accident of any kind, the circle is focused and narrow, like a modern 'airbag' to be active and retains the fall and protects against bumps.

Fundamentals and limits

The term family is ambiguous. Designates various social groups that, despite functional similarities exhibit significant different points. We propose an operational definition for use in the Islamic context, so the family is a type of structure whose members are bound together by ties of blood and / or marriage involving 'mutual expectations', prescribed by religion, reinforced by the law internalized by the individual.

This definition focuses on these mutual expectations relegated to members who belong to its structure by blood or by marriage. Both criteria are not necessarily mutually exclusive or complementary (Onedera, ...