Do sisters writing about the Emma Barnett female Imams debacle, referring to their fight against ‘patriarchy’ realise that they are saying worse than anything Barnett did. They are literally parroting leftist/feminist/orientalist labelling of Islam as patriarchal?
We submit to the Divine, yes. The Divine is neither male nor female.
However the highest authority in our deen was the Prophet Muhammad S. who was a MAN. The eponyms of our foremost legal schools were MEN. The head of the family is the man. Are you fighting against that?
We had Mothers of the Believers who were also legal authorities - they are our matriarchs. Islam doesn’t fit the feminist paradigm.
Are we so intellectually colonised that we must use the language and labellings of Western feminism to view our own Deen?
Feminist discourse inherently mistrusts men. It is sexist. It sees men as pathologically unjust towards women. It is a terribly disempowering and fundamentally dishonest discourse.
Please think before you use these terms and become a mouthpiece for feminist ideology.
Feminist discourse on Islam today is what I call ‘GENDERED NEO-ORIENTALISM’
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One of the striking things about Aisha (RA) was that although not a biological mother herself, she considered children & the next generation so important that she decided to raise orphans in her home and prioritised them as her students. Some of them were her nephews and nieces..
Talha ibn Ubaydillah and az-Zubair bin al-'Awwam were her brothers-in-law and were killed around the time of the Incident of the Camel. Muhammad bin Abi Bakr -her brother- was killed in Egypt by the Umayyad governor. They left behind children who Aisha (RA) took under her wing...
Their orphaned children became great scholars, muhaddiths and jurists under her tutelage:
al-Qasim bin Muhammad (her brother's son)
'Urwah bin az-Zubair (her sister Asma's son)
'Aisha bint Talha (her sister Umm Kulthoum's son)...
Muslim students - the uni environment can cause us to lower our guard with regards to interactions with the opposite sex, but we must keep our guard up. Attraction and crushes feel very real (and can be painful)...
Some day you will, in shā Allāh, be happily married to someone you love, who is good for your dīn and worthy of building a family with. Until then, protect yourself and your heart from the pain of harām relationships and everything that can lead to them...
Actively avoid situations that ignite desires. By, for example, not freely mixing with the opposite sex, not being in seclusion with your professor (of the opposite sex), not listening to lewd lyrics, and lowering your gaze. Islam gave us these guidelines for our own protection.
The university space is notoriously filled with isms and schisms. Whether it’s orientalism, Marxism, or feminism - know that such isms tend to be ideologies: systems of ideas and ideals with their own architects, & loaded language.
Islam is the complete way of life revealed by our Creator. It is the source of our ideals and values. So remember that Islam contains its own framework for addressing oppression, for addressing the economy, for addressing women’s rights, politics, questions of philosophy & more.
Worldly isms were formulated in the minds of fallible human beings and at times, charlatans. Even academia itself cannot escape its internal conventions, biases, assumptions and poor scholarship. So be careful before you innocently adopt trends such as ‘cancel culture’ or...
Salam to you .@rustyrockets this was a great conversation between you and .@YusufCatStevens
My kids are beneficiaries of the schools he built. I think your journeys do have many parallels and I do hope you submit one day Russell. luminary.link/PExecI7jl9
@rustyrockets The only thing I would add, as a scholar of Islamic law, is that the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad s. did insist that if the message of Islam reaches you - you must embrace it for your own salvation. God didn’t leave us on earth without guidance.
@rustyrockets and this wishy washy idea of 'anything goes' is not an accurate representation of the message of the Prophet Muhammad who insisted that people must follow his message if they knew about it. Russell I fear you have certain fears around Islam and committing to one way
Dear sisters...
The neck is ‘awrah
The neck is ‘awrah
The neck is ‘awrah...
We observe hijab in obedience to our Creator Allah who loves us and wants what is best for us. We obey Him on HIS terms, not according to fashion and fads. Did you know that the women in Jahiliyyah (Age of Ignorance) already covered their hair and exposed their necks...
Then Allah revealed verses of Quran telling the Believing women to cover their necks and chests:
Where will Allah take you from, and take you to, in life?
From Banki Ram, to Sheikh Dr. Zia ur-Rahman al-A'dhami.
A few days ago we heard about the passing of the great scholar Sheikh Ziaurrahman al-a’dhami- a convert from Hinduism to Islam...
...who travelled to seek knowledge in the land of the Prophet ﷺ and became a great teacher, author and authority in the Prophet’s own masjid and in Madinah university. His story is so inspiring Masha Allah!
How Allah guided a man of his unlikely beginnings and how he is now resting in Baqee’ with the Sahabah!
He was my father’s good friend and we would call him Chacha and visit and stay in his home as children. I had intended to visit him this year to benefit from him...