This lecture is a vital one to watch, for both sisters and brothers. Shaykh Khalid Yasin goes through many important topics, such as the rights and responsibilities of the wife to the husband and vice versa, the controversial issue of polygamy — the wisdom and legitimacy behind it — and much more. The Shaykh also gives a great deal of advice for a successful and happy marriage.
Why It Is Addressed to Both
Because rights and responsibilities are two sides of one arrangement. A lecture to women about their duties, delivered without the corresponding duties of men, produces exactly the imbalance that causes most of the trouble it is trying to fix.
The Shaykh treats them together, which is what makes this worth watching as a couple rather than separately.
On the Question of Polygamy
He takes it on directly rather than avoiding it, addressing both the wisdom behind the permission and the conditions attached to it. It is one of the most misrepresented subjects in Islam and one that Muslims themselves are often least able to explain.
About Shaykh Khalid Yasin
Shaykh Khalid Yasin, a former Christian, is the Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI), an organization dedicated to the work of da'wah. He studied Arabic in Madinah and in Cairo, and had many mentors and teachers who tutored him in Fiqh us-Sunnah, Fiqh us-Seerah and Islamic history, as well as in the memorization and recitation of the Quran.
He is what is known as a da'ee — someone who speaks publicly about the Islamic faith in order to invigorate the spiritual and moral conscience of his listeners, and to educate and inform people about Islam. He has spent most of his working life doing exactly that, and he is among the most widely heard English-speaking speakers in the field.
