Women\u2019s Rights (\u201cO My Sister\u201d)<\/p>\n
O my sister\u2026 among the matters you often hear about in our society, and perhaps even strive for, is what is called \u201cwomen\u2019s rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is no doubt that noble Islam has granted all people their rights, legislated rulings for them, and clarified what is good and what is harmful for all humankind\u2014male and female\u2014what benefits them and what does not\u2026 even if enemies deny this.<\/p>\n
It is only natural that the religion of Allah, Blessed and Exalted, has given women their rights\u2026 and there is no need to repeat this phrase that we hear so often, every single day.<\/p>\n
However, the danger that must be pointed out is this:
\nSome among us imitate the West in its concepts, methods, and slogans\u2014often without even realizing it!
\nOr they seek a platform to stand on, or a banner to carry\u2026 and so they find \u201cwomen\u2019s rights\u201d to be a convenient cause.<\/p>\n
1. It is your right, O my sister, to be surprised when they demand the \u201cright to education\u201d for women!
\nSay to them: When was she ever prevented from seeking knowledge that we must now demand it?
\nWhen knowledge was restricted and fought against in Western lands, it was not only women who were deprived of it, but men as well! And what do we have to do with their actions that we should be held accountable for them?<\/p>\n
Even if, hypothetically, there were restrictions or issues in some Muslim lands, these were not about knowledge itself, but about the method, manner, or content\u2014if it crossed the limits of Islamic law.<\/p>\n
And this has been, remains, and will remain so long as the law of Allah exists.
\nWhat believer would dare oppose that\u2014God forbid\u2014no matter what slogan is used?
\n2. It is your right, O my sister, to question their demand for the \u201cright to work\u201d for women!
\nSay to them: When was a woman\u2019s right to work ever prohibited?<\/p>\n
Who prevented her from working?
\nDoes not our history testify that women have worked whenever and however they wished? This is evident in our past and our present.
\nIf what is meant concerns methods or types of work, then change has affected men and women alike. The concept of \u201cwork,\u201d its development and forms, has changed\u2014what does that have to do with being male or female?<\/p>\n
If others have prevented women from working, should we be judged for their wrongdoing?<\/p>\n
And if, at times, certain restrictions were meant to preserve a woman\u2019s dignity, honor, humanity, and chastity\u2014then that is precisely part of women\u2019s rights, and is what is required.
\nAs for discrimination in salary, health insurance, or authority between men and women\u2014this is purely a Western approach, with no basis or trace in Islam.<\/p>\n
So who has honored women more: Islam, or Western \u201ccivilization\u201d?<\/p>\n
3. It is your right, O my sister, to smile in astonishment when they demand a woman\u2019s right to manage her own wealth!<\/p>\n
A woman is free to dispose of her wealth, property, inheritance, gifts, and salary. No one has the right to prevent her from doing so or to force her into what he wants\u2014whether a husband or anyone else.<\/p>\n
She possesses full autonomy in spending, giving, donating, and gifting. Any restriction on a woman\u2019s wealth is a custom foreign to our religion and history.<\/p>\n
If a man attempts to deprive a woman of financial independence, his action is injustice and aggression\u2014just as it would be if another woman did the same. It is oppression, regardless of gender.<\/p>\n
What does Islam have to do with this? Is there even a single legal ruling that prevents a woman from managing her own wealth? Where is it?<\/p>\n
4. It is your right, O my sister, to be astonished when they speak of forcing a girl to marry someone she has never seen except on her wedding night, and whom she does not know\u2014along with other rare stories.<\/p>\n
Which jurist in history ever stripped a woman of her right to choose her husband? To say \u201cno\u201d or \u201cyes\u201d? To have a marriage contract concluded without her consent?<\/p>\n
If such things occur in some tribes or families, they are ignorant customs\u2014strange indeed that Islam should be blamed for them when it came precisely to abolish them.<\/p>\n
5. Sometimes they defend women\u2019s rights because a husband beats his wife!
\nGlory be to God\u2014what does religion have to do with this? Such things occur in the lands of \u201ccivilization and progress\u201d more than among us.<\/p>\n
Is not the United States said to have one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world, though it is the land of \u201ccivilization\u201d and the \u201cnew world order\u201d?<\/p>\n
Does this not occur in greater numbers and with more brutality in Germany, Russia, and elsewhere?<\/p>\n
Why, then, is the blame always placed on the \u201cEastern society,\u201d the \u201cEastern woman,\u201d and the \u201cEastern man\u201d?<\/p>\n
Perhaps it is an indirect attack on the religion, history, and heritage of this society\u2014by those who harbor hostility.<\/p>\n
\u201cHatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is greater.\u201d
\n(Qur\u2019an, Aal \u2018Imran 3:118)<\/p>\n
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