The other half of a man
- Categories: Muslim Women's Issues -
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
All praise be to Allah alone,
and peace and blessings of Allah be upon the Prophet after whom
there are no other prophets.
There is has not been a woman
on the course of human history who has gained as much as the woman
has enjoyed under the law of Islam, where it has returned her to
her appropriate status. It has elevated her from the status of
lustrous desires and absurdities; and has balanced between her
rights and her physical constitution. Islam has honored woman with
the greatest honors, and has protected her from humiliation and
contempt; it has saved her from corruption and
wrongdoing.
When Islam emerged women were
at the lowest grades and the basest bottoms, it saved them and
placed them in their rightful place. A woman has become, by the
religion of Allah, honored and dignified. Islam has identified her
duties and obligations as appropriate to her physical build and
nature; away from men, and away from everything that offends her
modesty and corrupts her morals. It has ordered her to be modestly
dressed and to be covered from people, and warned her of wanton
display and unveiling; it forbade her from the intermingling out of
mercy towards her and fearing for her as well as for honoring
her.
How vast the gap is between
women in the Islamic society, especially in this country, which has
protected their dignity and has preserved their rights, and those
which have humiliated and debased women, accepting their wanton
display, unveiling and their intermingling with men; they have
given women uncontrolled and unchecked freedom that caused their
innate nature to set back and their dignity to be robbed. Thus,
women have become a cheap commodity to be bought and sold and
afterwards be thrown away, after being expired, without pity or
mercy.
Saudi women are no less than
their peers in other societies as being alleged by the followers of
falsehood; rather, they have excelled in many areas over the women
of those communities.
She has exceeded all because
she is taking constant steps, balancing between her ambition which
drives her for learning and hard work and between the preservation
of the teachings of her True religion. This equilibrium that
adorned the Saudi woman is the secret of her excellence which
impressed many people. You see a woman on the peak of her elegance,
of cleanliness of core and appearance, and the highest level of
cultural and intellectual awareness, while maintaining and
preserving all of this by the ornament of her religious and mental
veil. She is not lured by the calls of the corrupt nor is she
affected by the cries of the fallen. She is aware of what had
happened to the daughters of her sex in other societies of moral
fall, degradation, humiliation and vulgarity.
In spite of this prestigious
high status of the Muslim women in general and Saudi women in
particular, unfortunately there are people with little knowledge
and dominating ignorance who underestimate the importance of the
role of women in this country and describe them as retarded and
regressive and accuse the society of mistreating women and
plundering them of their rights, and that it has disrupted their
potentials. They have been exasperated by the women's adherence to
their religion and their preservation of their hijab and morals.
They do not want women to be like this; they want them unveiled,
wantonly displaying themselves, they want them intermingling with
the men and driving cars. They even want the opening of sports
clubs for women under the pretext of serving the country and
keeping pace with the era and the like of which is not approved by
religion nor accepted by morals. It is noteworthy that they
illogically link between the role and function of women in society
and the joke of her driving a car as if the role required from
women in the service of their religion and homeland is taking of
the position of a driver!!
And those who advocate for the
so-called liberation of women are either ignorant of the reality of
what women suffer in other societies, or that they are
psychologically defeated and are affected by the Western culture as
a model to be followed; they are allured by the glittering blue
eyes of Western women, withholding them from seeing the filth
emanating from the reality of this moral degradation.
Is it from the innate nature
that we take women out from their basic function and tell them that
society cannot walk on one leg! What injustice and undervaluation
of their rights and their efforts and degradation of their status
is greater than this!
Hence, a woman is the sister
of a man; she holds a share and he holds another share, but if she
equals him in work and function and going out, then she is not
called a sister, rather she is called a man!!
It is no secret that the
motive behind those writers is not reform, as they claim, but it is
the love of corruption and the disease of the hearts and lustrous
desires: {In their hearts is a disease (of doubt and hypocrisy) and
Allâh has increased their disease. A painful torment is theirs
because they used to tell lies.} [Surat Al-Baqarah: 10].
Transliteration:
Fee quloobihim maradun
fazadahumu Allahu maradan walahum
AAathabun aleemun bima kanoo
yakthiboona
If it is shown to those
advocates the method of Allah and His law in the reform of the land
and the people, and that their call is but corrupting the earth
they become stubborn and brag that they are the reformers: {And
when it is said to them: "Make not mischief on the earth," they
say: "We are only peace-makers." (11). Verily! They are the ones
who make mischief, but they perceive not.} [Surat Al-Baqarah:
11-12].
Transliteration:
Waitha qeela lahum
la tufsidoo fee alardi qaloo innama
nahnu muslihoona (11)
Ala innahum humu almufsidoona walakin la
yashAAuroona
But by the grace of Allah the
ground of this country is not fragile, through which they can
spread their ideas and achieve their desires. Because the approach
of this State, may Allah honor it, is not commensurate with their
ideas neither is it consistent with their purposes. The issue and
the subject of women in the country of monotheism have been done
with; the pens have been lifted and dried according to the Quran
and the Sunnah and the methodology of the nation's predecessor,
upon which this country has been established since the presence of
the first Saudi State till this day; women are safe in their
seclusion, working for what they have been created for. They are
envied by the entire world: Muslim and infidel.
It is regrettable that the
call of those writers has some effects on some teenage deluded
girls who may be fooled by such calls. They are calls that tackle
their feelings and manipulate their emotions. We really wonder when
we hear and read about the cries of the Western women here and
there, when they call for the necessity of women to return to what
is commensurate with their nature and physical composition after
the successive concessions led to the plunder of their dignity and
chastity, while some of our girls still believe that those who want
to take them out of modesty and dignity, under the pretext of
giving them their rights wish them goodness and
happiness!!
If women call
this good; then what is evil?
We tell every woman to beware
of falling in the abyss that women in other societies have fallen
into. A women in those societies has some excuse that there was no
conservative society existent to help her preserve herself and her
dignity, and save her rights and status. What is the excuse in her
conservative religious society which calls for modesty, chastity,
purity and dignity!
From what and
why are they liberating you?
O Muslim
sister: do you know from what and why are they liberating
you?
They want to free you from
your pure femininity, from your life and chastity, from your morals
and values… They want to free you from your innate nature and your
noble status, which has been chosen by Allah for you, they want to
free you from all beautiful and pure meanings.
As for why
they want to liberate you?
It is in order to facilitate
for them leading you, to fulfill their desires and feed their
lustrous impulses and to make you a silly vulgar material for their
lowdown stories and their falling art.
Sister… They want to free you
for things and stuff!! Then why do not you free yourself from their
freedom?!
Ibn Khuzaymah
House
Translated by Wathakker Website
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