Marriage in Akhir al-Zaman By Sheikh Imran Hosein

The blessed Qur’an makes mention in Surah al-Mu’minoon;of two categories of women with whom men can have intimate relations. The first category is wives, and the second is Millk al-Yameen (i.e., those whom your right hands possess). . The Qur’an does not define the second category of women as slaves. The Law of Necessity can be invoked in Akhir al-Zaman to permit a (free) woman to offer herself as Milk al-Yameen to a (pious) Muslim man of her choice, and if he accepts her offer, he wo