Our relationship with Allah (SWT) will not be complete until we honour women as they should be honoured. — Ustadha Ieasha Prime (@risconvention)
Cc: @Beellbeells, @Husnamina @lifeofruqayya, @SalehGwani, @sugra_sm, @zaheedman
Cc: @Beellbeells, @Husnamina @lifeofruqayya, @SalehGwani, @sugra_sm, @zaheedman
Quoting my aunt, I would like to expatiate to the issue by referring our social malaise we found ourselves in. Looking at our history and following the footstep of the Best Exemplar known to man, we can learn that the most sensitive & crucial relationship to man is his treatment
of his partner in building societies, nations and kingdoms.
Social justice goals often relate to uplifting those who traditionally and historically have had little power in society and are poorly represented.
Social justice goals often relate to uplifting those who traditionally and historically have had little power in society and are poorly represented.
Women happen to be the largest social grouping in this domain. Their treatment, their feelings of security, and their personal and social freedoms are a barometer of the conscience of a given social order.
One of the subjects to which the Prophet (May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon Him) devoted considerable attention in the Farewell Message is the rights of women and who is required to honour them,
“And thus, O people! Indeed your womenfolk have rights over you, and you have rights over them. Your [referring to men]right over them [referring to women] is that they shall not be unfaithful [have sexual intercourse with other men] to you, and they shall not permit anyone
“to enter your homes without your permission, and they shall not commit any openly indecent acts; but if they did, then Allah has permitted you to constrain them, and to leave them alone in bed, and to nudge them without hurting them; and if they desist and comply with you,
“then you are responsible for their livelihoods and their wardrobes within reason. And counsel each other[referring to men] pertaining to the well-being of women, for when they are in your care, they need your reinforcement [to be concerned about their welfare]
“for they are vulnerable; and you have taken them [in marriage] in accordance with Allah’s trust, and it was by Allah’s word that you are intimate with them [meaning sexual intercourse]. Therefore, be conscious of Allah’s authority and power when it comes to women.”
Women represent the largest demographic that consistently and serially has its rights violated and withdrawn. They are the most convenient and easy victims of domestic violence, of displacement and humiliation during wars, of human trafficking, and the flesh-for-sale business.
When women are marginal in their societies, then the society is marginal in the world; when women are on the peripheries of socio-economic development, then the society is on the fringes of human productivity and advancement; when women are not protected,
then the whole society is violated; when women are forced to flee the security of their homes, then the society is insecure in its homelands; when illiteracy is forced upon women, then parochialism becomes the standard of the society; and when women have no rights,
then, the society has no respect.
The Society is in a predicament because the locus of its identity is firmly lodged, not in Creator and His Prophets, but in the hateful policies of those who have come through the centuries abusing the rights of the weak and powerless, albeit in
The Society is in a predicament because the locus of its identity is firmly lodged, not in Creator and His Prophets, but in the hateful policies of those who have come through the centuries abusing the rights of the weak and powerless, albeit in
a much more sophisticated way today. The condition of women is symptomatic. They are abused and separated from their families because the institutional support structures in society that are supposed to provide protection, a guarantee of rights,
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