We begin by praising Allah, and we praise Him and we seek His help and we ask for His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allah from the evil of ourselves and from the evil consequence of our evil actions.
Whomsoever Allah guides there is none to misguide, and whomsoever Allah leaves to go astray there is none to guide, and I testify that Allah alone is worthy of worship and that Muhammad (pbuh)[1], he is the worshipper of Allah, the servant of Allah, the slave of Allah, and he is 'Rassul Allah', he is the messenger of Allah.
After that, the best speech is the book of Allah, and the best way is the way of Muhammad (pbuh) and the worst of all the affairs are those matters that have been newly introduced into the religion, and every matter that has been newly introduced into the religion of Islam is a "bed’aa" an innovation and all of the innovations are misguidance, all misguidance is going astray, and all going astray is in the fire.
Brothers and sisters may Allah (SWT)[2] have mercy upon you. Today we want to talk about an important question. A question that is on the tongues and in the minds of many people. It is a claim that is made against our religion, the religion of Islam. An accusation, in fact, a slander against our religion; that our religion oppresses women.
I intend here today, I hope to demonstrate, not only that this is a lie and a slander, but actually we will see who are the people, and which is the nation and which is the ideology that is in fact really responsible for really oppressing women.
Sometimes when you get into a discussion with people, it’s very important to define your terms. Try and understand what is it exactly you are talking about. When you say “Islam oppresses women” we want to understand what these terms mean?
Now hopefully, most of us understand what the term 'women' means – we hope anyway – ok, but the term we want to talk about today is the term ‘oppression’. What does oppression mean? And I’m going to spend a little bit of time defining and looking into the concept of oppression. What does it mean? What is its reality? and this is very important. So let's define this term ‘oppression’.
First of all, there’s no doubt that oppression is something that everybody hates and despises. Nobody likes oppression.
The use of the word oppression is a type of an offensive derogatory term. We know that the Prophet (pbuh) said that oppression will stand as darkness on the day of judgement, and Allah (SWT) He tells us in the Quran that He does not love the 'Dhalimun', the oppressors.
So it is very clear that Islam itself and the Qur'an itself condemns oppression, and in fact, our noble religion orders us and it is one of our duties and obligations to fight against oppression.
That is one of the very reasons why we are called to 'Jihad'; to relieve people from tyranny and from oppression. So oppression is not something that Islam tolerates. Oppression is something that this noble religion condemns; it is something of course that all human beings hate.
So let us therefore define actually what we mean by oppression. Implicit, in the meaning of the word oppression, is the consent of denying something its rights.
Now we are very used to hearing a lot about rights. Especially so called "human rights", we hear often about humans rights being violate, we also have animal rights, and different sections of society have different rights.
So in order to understand what oppression is, we have to make a further understanding. What is right? What is the 'right' of something? What does that mean when we talk about human 'rights' or this is the 'right' of something?
Ok, the right of something means it implies that it is something that is natural to it. So the right of something implies and that is understood in its meaning that it is something that is a part of its nature, it is natural to it.
Let's give an example.. No has anyone seen the film Free Willy?
Ok, it made you cry? Did it make you cry, that film? It made me cry. Ok, so if you haven't seen it, Free Willy is about this great big killer whale, and this great big beautiful killer whale is locked up in a small little compound for people's entertainment.
Now of course I don't know if any of you went, or have ever been to see these killer whales or some of these dolphins put on display in these small little pens were they jump and they go through hoops on so on and so forth, and of course as little children we go on and watch it and it is all very amusing isn't that fantastic!
But a lot of people must go away thinking about how an animal, such a beautiful animal, could be confined to such a narrow space. An animal that was created whose natural environment is to swim in thousands of miles of ocean. And so without doubt some people would recognise that this is a type oppression that this animal is oppressed because, why, it has been taken from its natural environment. It's taken away from what is naturally due to it, to be free, so this is oppression.
Another example of oppression, that I'm sure is very easy for us to understand. It is a right of a worker. If you work for somebody, and you are employed by somebody. Implicit in the nature of being a worker is that you get paid for your work.
If someone does not pay you for your work, then without doubt we will all agree that this is oppression, that we have been deprived of our right. I worked, my right is to be paid. If someone deprives me, I have been oppressed.
Ok, so I hope therefore that we have understood oppression. Oppression means to deprive something of its rights, which means to deprive something of what its nature requires of it, so therefore let's go back to our discussion.
The point at hand: 'Does Islam oppress women?'
Does Islam oppress women? Therefore we ask the question again!
With our definitions:
Does Islam deny women their rights? Does Islam deprive women of what is natural to them? Does Islam take them away from their nature? Does Islam deprive them of what naturally they should have?
THIS IS THE QUESTION
And of course to answer that question we also have to answer before that, another question!
“What the nature of women?”
What is their nature?
We can only really talk about whether something or someone oppresses women or not when we understand what is the nature of women?
Does Islam deprive women of their nature?
Does Islam take away from them their rights that are naturally due to them, due to their nature?
THIS IS THE QUESTION
And then we will see certainly, without a doubt, that there is no way that Islam oppresses women!
Because Islam is the religion that recognizes, in fact, the true nature of women!
Because it is from the One who created women! It is from the One who created the universe.
Islam is from Allah! It is from God, it is from the Creator and He knows us better than we know ourselves. He is closer to us in His knowledge than our jugular vein. He is intimate in His knowledge, with every single detail of our existence. Allah, He is “Al-Latif”, He is the one who is aware of every single subtlety.
And Islam has been revealed by Allah, and Allah is the one who is the most acquainted with the nature of the woman and the nature of the man.
And so what we find in the religion of Islam, is that Islam has set a paradigm, Islam set an example, Islam has given us and defined for us the roles of men and the roles of women according to our natures, not according to some ideology, not according to some hopeful or wishful thinking, that wouldn’t it be nice if this, and wouldn’t it be nice with that.
But this is not actually connected in anyway with the reality of how people are.
And what we’re going to find indeed, is that the western world has been experimenting with human beings on a massive scale for the past sixty years.
Humanity has been going through a massive experiment, and I'm sure we are all familiar with the ideology prevalence in the west, the ideology that tells us, not that men and women are different, but that men and women are the same. There is no difference between the man and the woman, and as they claim our differences are a product of conditioning, our differences are a product of conditioning.
This is the old debate between nature and nurture, nature and nurture, what is your nature, and what have you been nurtured, what have you grown up with? How much of our mentality, how much of our behaviour is a product of our nature? And how much is a product of our environment and our upbringing.
And of course, as you know the western ideological system, and not only the western, I mean weather of course communism is not really existing anymore except perhaps in China, but it has been a prevalence ideology in the west and then by necessity not only in the west but this has been hoisted upon the rest of humanity. Because without doubt as we know the west controls the mass media. The west has the most influential say in the ideologies that are prevalent in the world so this is their ideology, men and women are the same and the reason as they have been claiming that boys like to play with guns and cars and they like mechanical things is because that’s the way we’ve been brought up. Our parents indoctrinate us, boys wear blue, boys play with cars and boys like guns, and girls they wear pink and they play with dolls, and they like makeup and earrings and stuff like that because they’ve been conditioned to be like that.
This is what they have been saying. In fact, there is no reason why girls should not play with guns and cars and wear blue and there is no reason why boys shouldn’t wear earrings and wear pink and play with dolls. There is no reason.
Now interestingly enough, believe it or not, in Israel or we should call it occupied Palestine, they have been conducting for many years now, for the past 40 years there has been a famous experiment on a "kibbutz" and in this "kibbutz" what they did, is they separated as much as possible from the earliest possible age, they separated children from their parents, and the reason they did that is because they did not want their parents to influence the children in their habits and their behaviour, in other words, what they were attempting to do was to eliminate the ‘nurture’ side and let their nature come forward and what they thought and what they believed, and this was their ideology is that children would not care what toys they played with and this is what they did, they left these children in dormitories on their own as much as possible and in the dormitories they put toy guns, toy cars, mechano sets, dolls, makeup, jewellery so on and so forth, and they thought that what would be proven from this experiment that went on for 40 years is that they wouldn’t care, the boys would be just as happy playing with dolls as the girls, and the girls would be just as happy playing with cars and guns as the boys, but what did they actually discover, after forty years of experimentation, consistently time after time after time? The boys took the toys that were guns and cars and mechanical things, and the girls would take the dolls and the makeup and the jewellery. This is what they discovered; forty years they did this experiment. And in fact, they’ve been experimenting with humanity. They've been experimenting with society on a massive scale. They have been trying to indoctrinate us for years and years, under the guise of what they call feminism, the same ideology. And what they have discovered now, scientifically they have proven that boys and girls are different. From the very earliest age, and they have done controlled scientific experiments that have been reviewed by peer groups and confirmed, again and again that boys look at certain things and certain toys and they concentrate them from birth.
From the moment they can start seeing, they concentrate on certain things that are of a mechanical nature. And girls, they concentrate on things that are what they call the girly things. And so there’s no possibility for these babies to be subjected to some kind of brainwashing by society.
In other words, it’s biological. In other words, it’s in-built into us. It’s our nature. Men and women are different. That is a fact. It’s in our biology; it’s in our very makeup.
Now let us read something that has been mentioned by a French Nobel laureates, his name is Alexis Carrel, and this is what he said: “The difference between men and women are of more fundamental nature than is usually realised, and that these differences are caused by the very structure of the tissue, and by the impregnation of the entire organism with specific chemical substances secreted by the ovary. Ignorance of these fundamental facts has led promoters of feminism to believe that both sexes should have the same responsibilities. In reality, woman differs profoundly from man. Every one of the cells of her body bears the mark of her sex. The same is true for her organs and above all her nervous system. Woman should develop their aptitudes without imitating the males.”
This is what this French scientist said, but of course, that is not what we are taught even today, and of course, this exposes the lie, or the claim, that the western world to be motivated by science because we don’t find them promoting this ideology that has now been proven by science, rather they still continue to promote the misguided notion that men and women are the same.
That both men and women should be able to work, that both men and women should be able to do the same things and should be encouraged to, and they claim this under the banner of noble ideals, but the facts are brothers and sisters rather more mundane than that.
We imagine that something that I have noticed in the economist is the famous magazine in England an economist an article in the economist called the liberation of women in the west one of the most enduring revolutions of the 20th century produced by western Europe. This is what they claimed about it but in fact when we examine the reality of it, the reasons for their promoting this feminism as I said is much more mundane its actually mostly to do with economics.
They theorize that if you have half the population of your country staying at home not being employed then what you have done is that you have not utilized half the economic potential of your society.
In other words, if the only ones who are working are men, then men are the ones who work, men are the ones who control the money, and men are the ones who will essentially spend the money, if we get the women working that means we will have more disposable income, more people buying more people spending and the economy will increase, this is what they imagined, and it seems to make some sort of sense doesn’t it .
If we look at the origins of this it started in the first world war when lots of men were going out and getting slaughtered in millions in the battlefields in France, and also in the second world war, the women were forced to go to the factories to produce ammunitions, and then they got a taste of liberation and once they got the taste of liberation as they called it and they started having their own incomes they didn’t want to go back to the old ways of them chained to the kitchen sink as they called it, and it seemed that for a time it was working , wealth increased, expenditure increased, the economy went forward, but now amazingly economies have come across a new reality that they’ve only woken up to quite recently, this is quite interesting they’ve realized that once a certain percentage of your population reaches over 65 and in fact it’s around 30 percent so if 30 percent of your population is over 65 years old what they discovered is the economy of your country becomes not viable anymore, in other words the economy won’t work.
Why? because the money you need to spend to care for the over 65s is more than the money that those people who are earning and working can generate, and it’s nothing to do with they care about old people now they want to introduce new laws to let people work till they’re 75, it’s nothing to do with their caring about old people, they started to realize that they’re getting an increasing age in population and they’re not going to be able to sustain the economy.
And now having told women that you should leave the home, liberate yourself from your husband, liberate yourself from that kitchen sink, what do you wanna have kids for anyway, waste your time with that, go out and earn some money.
Now they’re try to get them to get back in the home, back to the kitchen sink and having babies again, because there’s not enough young people in society, and of course what is this proving is the complete nonsense of those people who try to live their lives according to the feeble opinions and ideologies imagined in the minds of human beings, and when they abandoned the perfect guidance of Allah, they will only end up destroying themselves, in fact what we find is that western society is the society that oppresses women, because the nature of the woman is to be a mother, the nature of the woman is to be caring for children, the nature of the woman her whole biology, her whole chemistry, her nervous system, her mental system is all constructed whether you believe in Allah or you believe in evolution it’s not something you can argue about, either Allah has created women like that or evolution over millions of years has made women like that, to be the ones that bare the children that carry them that give birth to them that feed them that care for them that nurture them, and believe me the one who is most capable of doing it is the woman, the man can have a goal and maybe he has to do that sometimes, but the reality is as every single one of us who have got kids here.
We know the reality, we know the reality of who can really look after the children, we know that, and ask men no it’s not us, we can do it for a day or maybe half a day, and if we do it for a day then we say now I know what my wife has to put up with every day and I don’t know how she does it.
You know, that’s the reality, because that’s the way Allah made us. So what do we find? We find as usual, and it’s not surprising, we shouldn’t go “Oh that’s amazing” because you know what, it’s not really that amazing. If we are believers in Allah and we believe in Islam and we believe Islam is from Allah, we would expect that what Allah teaches us is to be in agreement with what has been scientifically proven.
And, of course, the Qur'an confirms this reality. We know that Allah (SWT) mentioned, the wife of Imran who dedicated her child, who is of course Mariam, to the service of Allah, but of course, when she gave birth to Mariam, the wife of Imran said “I have given birth to a female child”, and Allah knows very well what she had given birth to. The male is not like the female. This is what Allah, (SWT) tells us.
Brothers and Sisters, dear guests. The male is not like the female. Science tells us, reason tells us, experience tells us and Allah reminds us men and women are different.
So it is the society that oppresses women. It is the society that takes women away from their nature. A society that tells women that being a mother, that being a housekeeper, that the one doing perhaps the most essential job in society, is a degrading position!
They talk about it, “she’s chained to the kitchen sink”, like she’s some slave, like it’s some menial task., and rather who is honored is what? The actress, the model, the super businesswoman, and the more clothes she takes off, the more honored she is.
This is the woman they honor in this society. The career woman, the politician, the woman who’s a doctor, the woman who’s this and who’s that. Look at her how “successful” she is. How “independent” she is, and anyone who stays at home, looking after the children, “Oh look at that poor little thing. Look at her”, oh yes you know what I’m taking about.
This is the society that oppresses women, and you know what, you see it everywhere. You see miserable women, women who have reached 35 years old and they’re desperate to have kids. Suddenly, it hits them. Suddenly, their nature over takes them. And now what do we find? In order to overcome this, science comes in. They’ve introduced this “in vitro fertilization” and women are being fertilized when they are not even capable of producing eggs anymore, but they get fertilized and they’re having children at 40 or 50 because they have missed out, because of the pressure society put on them.
This is oppressing women! This is taking women away from her nature, this is making her feel inadequate if she is a mother and if she is a wife and she is a home keeper, she is made to feel inferior; that is oppression.
It is the society that treats women as a commodity. That is a society that oppresses and denigrates women. It is an evil and unjust and tyrannical society.
Do not be confused my brothers and sisters in Islam. Do not be confused. Do not be taken in by their propaganda. Do not be influenced by their lies.
And believe me, they have sown the seeds of their own destruction. They have sown the seeds of their own destruction, and you see it, because who is looking after kids? Who gives the kids the love and the care and the attention that they need? Who is there to teach the kids morality, right from wrong, manners? You know who it is? MTV, Play Station, because mummy is out working along with daddy, huh? And who else is looking after the children, who is looking after them? Can anyone look after a child like the mother? No. And so you find children coming with no morals, no concept of right and wrong, violence, sex, drugs, music, fantasy, it’s the norm for them.
That is the norm for them, and love? They haven’t found love in the home. So what do they do? They join gangs. That’s what they do, they join gangs. They look for it somewhere. If they can’t find it in the home, they’ll try to find somewhere else to belong. It’s happening in America, it happens in England, I’m sure it happens here in Australia.
Kids on the streets, doing all sorts of things. Why? Because there was no one who nurtured them. They are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. They have already done it, and now they are reaping the evil rewards of their evil philosophy and their injustice and their tyranny. They blame us?! And they point the finger at us?! They point the finger at Islam?! They are the guilty ones, they are the oppressors, they are the tyrants, they are the ones who’ve degraded women and taken them from their nature that Allah (SWT) created them for.
They are the ones who have degraded women, and taken them, from their nature that Allah (SWT), created them for. In which they should feel pride.
Look what Islam teaches, my brothers and sisters. Look at the words of Allah, (SWT). Look to the teachings of Rasulu Allah, (pbuh). The woman is honoured in Islam. The woman is honoured, revered in Islam.
Allah (SWT), He tells us: Reverence Allah, and the wombs that bore you. Reverence Allah, and the wombs that bore you.
And the name of Allah, Al Rahman; and the word 'Rahm', for womb, it's from the same roots. And whoever cuts off from the womb, then Allah will cut off from them, as the Prophet (pbuh) said. It is one of the greatest sins in Islam, to disobey your parents, especially your mother. Especially, your mother.
Al-Aa'raf. What is Al-Aa'raf? As Abdullah Ibn Al-Abbasy said: Al Aa'raf is the heights, it is the place of mountains between the Hell fire, and Paradise.
And who is on Al Aaraf? Abdullah Ibn Al A'bbas, he described it. Some mountains, with some rivers, and some lakes, and on this place and on these mountains are people who fought "Jihad" in the path of Allah and were killed martyrs. But they went and fought that "Jihad" against their parents’ wishes. So the good of their fighting "Jihad", is equalled by the evil, of their disobeying their parents. Subhanallah[3].
When a man came to the Prophet (pbuh), he said, "Oh Messenger of Allah, who has the most right to my kindness?" and the Prophet (pbuh) said, "Your mother."
"And after that, Messenger of Allah?"
"Your mother."
"And after that, Messenger of Allah?"
"Your mother."
"And after that, Messenger of Allah?"
"Then, your father," he replied, "Your mother, your mother, your mother. Then your father."
Paradise lies at the feet of your mother. May your face be rubbed in the dust. May you be humiliated. A person, whose parents reach old age and they do not enter paradise, by failing to serve them. They do not enter paradise because they fail to serve their old parents. May you be humiliated, the person who reaches that time.
Allah has accorded such honour to the parents, but and particularly to the mother. Particularly, to the mother. She is the one who bore you. For nine months, in pain and suffering. She gave birth to you, and cared for you. You could never, ever, ever, ever pay your mother back. Ever.
There is nothing you can do to pay your mother back, this is what our religion, Islam, teaches, to respect the woman, you can never pay her back, if you found your father a slave, you bought him and set him free, you pay him back, but your mother, there is nothing you can do.
A man came with his mother on his back to Omar bin al khatab, “Ya Amir el momeneen[4], I have taken my mother on my back through the whole of the hedge, did I pay her back”? Omar, he replied, “Young man, you did not pay her back for one tear she shed when she gave birth to you”.
And Islam oppresses women? No, Islam honours women for what Allah has created her for, for her nature, it honours her for what is her nature and that is giving someone their rights.
And that is why Allah made men ,the maintainers and protectors of women, they are the glass vessels, the best of you are the ones who are the best to their wives, this is what Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) taught , how far unfortunately many Muslims are from the commands of Allah , from the "Sunnah"[5] of the messenger (pbuh), there is no doubt that there are many Muslims who are abusive and tyrannical and who do oppress their women but that is not Islam.
Islam is not responsible for that any more, Islam is responsible for a Muslim who drinks alcohol, or takes drugs, or kills innocent human beings. Islam is free from that.
Islam teaches us to honour women, to respect them but for their nature, the best of you those who are best to their wives, and of course the Prophet (pbuh) was the one who is best to the wives.
And Allah has made men the maintainers and protectors of women, they are the glass vessels, they are delicate, they are sensitive, they need to be treated with care, and with love and with patience, Allah has given them a certain nature, they need that nature in order to be able to look after the children, you can never do it brothers, never, but that nature means that there is something about them they have certain emotions, they have certain emotional responses that they need those responses to deal with the important task of raising their children, and that means you have to deal with them brothers in a certain way, you have to be patient with them, there is certain things that happen to them in a certain time of the month that means that sometimes they behave in quiet a crazy way, but they need that, that is the way Allah created them.
Those chemicals are there for a reason, it happens for a reason, and we should honour that, this is Allah’s creation, perfect creation, perfect, and doing what Allah intended it to do, and we have to respect that, they are glass vessels, treat them with kindness, treat them with softness, leave them the way they are, yes. The Prophet (pbuh) said: “Treat women kindly, for woman was created from a bent rib, and the most crooked part of the rib is the top part, so treat women kindly.”so enjoy the women the way they are, with this bendiness, because if you tried to straighten them you are never going to be able to do it, and the straightening of it in fact will be divorce.
You are trying to change Allah’s nature that he created, don’t do it enjoy them the way they are , this part of their beautiful quality that makes the women the thing that we love, and especially the righteous women, about whom, the Prophet (pbuh) said: the whole world is green and verdant but the most precious thing in this life is the righteous woman, there is nothing better and nothing more precious than a righteous woman, and whoever marries a righteous woman "in-shaa Allah"[6] will succeed, whoever marries a woman for just her beauty, or just her wealth or her lineage, what will you get, believe me, misery, marry the righteous one, marry the pious one, marry the religious one, and be successful, this is the nature, that Allah created, this is the path to a beautiful and successful society, it is the foundation of it , Islam recognizes it, Confucianism recognized it, in fact every sensible society knows that the very foundation of society is the family and at the heart of every family is the woman who teaches and cares and nurtures for the children so we honour her. Islam teaches us to honour her to respect her, as our mother, to revere her, and they say that Islam does not give women their rights!? And they say that Islam oppresses women!? you know there is a saying that we should give back to them a saying that , from their own books that they say they believe it, a beautiful saying attributed to Jesus, you know what it is, it says: take the log out of your eye before you try and take the twig out of somebody else’s
You got a great big log in your eye and you are trying to take a twig out of someone else's eye? Huh?
That is what they are doing. They see a twig in our eye and they got a great big log in theirs. They are so busy criticizing us, but if we compare the two, surely they are people on complete -- almost complete -- misguidance in that regard.
So my dear brothers and sisters and dear listeners, when we really examine Islam when we study the Qur'an when we study the example of our noble Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) we will truly see that Islam is the religion that accords women their rights.
Men are there to maintain and protect women. It is the job of the man. Our job to make sure that the women can stay at home and she can look after the house, look after the kids, feel comfortable there, and feel happy there. That is our job to maintain them and to protect them. That is our responsibility. Because that is a weighty responsibility, Allah has also required something from the women in respect to the man and that is that God made him, because Allah made the man the maintainer and the protector. Allah gave him that responsibility.
Allah did not ask the women to go out there and earn the money; confront all that evil in there in society. Allah did not ask the women to do that rather he asked the women to care, educate, and bring up the children with that love and that morality and that goodness that they need. The man, however, he has to and he is responsible for your guidance, in the deen, in the religion. He is responsible to make sure, although quite often it may be the other way around.
The women often "alhamdulilah"[7] and that's the righteous women make sure the men are on the straight path.
But it is our responsibility and because of that Allah requires that the woman is obedient to her husband when he tells her to do something and he commands her she should do her best if it’s within her capability. If it’s within her capability that's important, she should do it and this is the respect.
This is important in our society. The wife respects the husband and inshallah the children will respect the mother. And if the children respect the mother and the wife respects the husband and the husband respects the authority of the Amir, of the ruler, this is our religion this is the basis of a true stable society.
But what you find is when the husband, when the wife doesn't respect her husband, the children will not respect her.
When the man does not respect the women and treat her with justice and with the gentleness and the kindness that Islam had ordered. Allah will put over him a tyrannical ruler to oppress and make his life difficult as he oppressed and made his wife's life difficult. And I believe this truly “if you look at the Muslim world today, you will see the way the ruler treats the people, reflects the way the man treats his wife, you will find it, the way the ruler treats the people will be the way the man treats his wife. If he oppresses her, Allah will make a ruler to oppress him.
So brothers and sisters ,we know that our beautiful “deen” is based on “taqwa” the fear of Allah , the consciousness of Allah, observing the limits of Allah, and this is where we have to start with our family, rectifying ourselves .
Brothers and sisters my final appeal to you please remove from yourself this "Jahleyah"[8] this ignorance, that is the ideology and the perverted and sick ideology that is propagated by the western civilization.
Brothers and sisters, I ask you to remove that from yourselves. I find it's so sad when I hear brothers and sisters talking about that I’ve had two kids I think that’s enough! because we know you’ve been conquered already, they do not need to come and invade our lands they’ve already defeated us ideologically, our minds have already been taken over, we’ve already begun to think like them, we push our daughters to get degrees to become doctors to become engineers to become nuclear physicists, look at my daughter I’m so proud of her she and what she’s achieved…. What?? she’s had 10 kids and brought them up in Islam that would be something proud that you taught your daughter to be like that no she became a doctor that’s what we’re proud of these days, that is sick brothers and sisters, that is sick and that is not what our religion teaches, and I am not saying please do not misunderstand me, and it is important, yes we need Muslim women doctors, we need women to be educated to educate our children, we need women to be educated to open Muslim schools, so that they can educate our children in Islam, in the religion and in life.
But we have to understand we must not get confused and imagine that this is what is going to make us successful, don’t be mentally defeated do not allow yourselves to think with this false ideology, no brothers and sisters think like Muslims, think with Islam, think with the Qur'an, think with the "Sunnah" of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and you will see brothers and sisters, we will bring up a generation who are like that, you will see the success that Allah (SWT) will bring once again to this "Ummah"[9] and you will see that once again brothers and sisters that when our foundations are strong, and "alhamdulilah" will give us the success of this life and of the life to come.
May Allah's peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad.
[5] According to the scholars of Hadeeth, is everything that has been related from the Messenger (pbuh), of his statements, actions, tacit approvals, personality, physical description, or biography.
[8] It is an Islamic concept referring to the period of time and state of affairs before the advent of Islam. It is often translated as the "Age of Ignorance"
[9] Ummah, or Muslim community, is a group of people from diverse backgrounds, ancestry, locations and nationalities. They are a community without borders yet united in a very real way. Though separated by distance and often constrained by borders they are united. They are one nation or community united under the guidance of the One God. "And verily this Ummah of yours is one Ummah and I am your Lord and Cherisher, therefore fear Me and no other." (Qur'an 23:52)
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