Let me take you back, 1400 years ago,
To Medina, Saudi Arabia.
When entrusted to the Prophet Muhammad the task of finding a way
To protect women from abuse and harassment.
The situation was as follows:
In about 680 AD,
Old-fashioned luxury plumbing and drainage systems
When a woman wakes up in the middle of the night
To spend their need,
He had to walk away,
Outside the city limits, enter the forest alone
For some privacy.
Believe it or not,
A group of men began to find it a chance
To track women’s movements at night,
And they were hanging around the city limits,
Their identities are hidden by darkness, watching.
If a woman comes,
She happened to be wearing robes,
A robe-like coat,
The men left her alone.
The robes in ancient centuries were a symbol,
As a Burberry or Chanel coat.
It was a symbol that declared this woman free,
And that it is under the protection of its people and its clan.
You will not find it difficult to confront the perpetrators
Reporting.
But if a woman walks at night without a djabab,
Her clothes were a bit loose,
Men know then that this woman is a nation,
And they will worship them.
The tribesmen raised this issue for the Prophet,
As well as many social, political, and family issues
Which the Prophet encountered during the period of his mission,
Raise this issue to God,
And brought down a verse from the Koran,
Holy Book of Muslims,
She says, “O Prophet, tell your husbands
Your daughters and women of believers
They will be condemned by their neighbors
So lower they know
Do not hurt .. “
Simply put, the verse commands all women to dress like some of them
So as not to distinguish one from the other,
And then track and attack them.
Now ostensibly
This may seem an easy fix for this problem,
But it was not.
The Islamic community was a tribal past and established the concept of social status.
The idea of wearing the same nation as free women’s clothing
It was an insult to them.
Doubt began in the extent of the process of this garment
How will the nation perform its work?
How will she move and she is constrained by this garment?
How will you cook, clean, and bring water?
In the end, the early Muslim scholars decided
It is necessary to choose a woman’s robe according to two factors:
women’s role in the society –
Which can be seen as its function –
And the customs of this society.
Or in other words, his usual work in this community.
Muslims love to apply ancient and historical judgments to our modern society.
So let’s do it.
The way women dress is determined by tradition and function.
So what does that mean for a woman who lives today in America,
Someone like me?
First, it means that I have a job, a role in society,
Contribution of what I can provide.
Second, this means that I
While I make this contribution,
Since I live in a society devoid of its traditions of headdress,
As a matter of fact, if I wear the hijab I may be harassed,
Becomes wear what is customary,
Such as a dress, jeans, or even yoga pants
Not only acceptable
But loving.
But hey, can this be true?
In the end, we did not believe all of us
That a Muslim woman should cover her head?
It is a requirement of her faith?
There is even a term
Women’s scarf,
An Arabic term we all heard
Whether we are attentive to him or not:
“veil”.
So, it’s possible that this is what I missed.
It is possible that the order to wear the headdress is mentioned elsewhere in the Qur’an.
For those who do not know of you, the Qur’an consists of 114 Surat
Each sura consists of verses, such as poetry.
There are more than 6,000 verses in the Qur’an.
Of the 6,000 verses,
There are only three verses describing how a woman’s robe should be.
I have already mentioned the first verse.
The second verse addresses the wives of the Prophet directly,
She ordered them to wear more clothes and a jacket
For their role in society and their positions as wives of the Prophet.
The third verse is similar to the first verse in its ruling,
As it was dropped as a response to a historic event.
Records indicate it
It was popular in the pre-Islamic era
Wearing a scarf on the head called Khimar,
Fold behind the ear and leave to roll back.
On the front, the woman was wearing a bra
Open reveals her chest –
Like the one you used to see in the “Arush conflict.”
( Laughter)
When Islam spread in the Arabian Peninsula,
A verse decreed the woman using the scarf,
Or any other dress,
To cover her chest.
Just.
This is all that is mentioned in the Qur’an regarding women’s clothing.
It seems that the Lord did not list all that should be covered in the woman’s body.
In fact, it can be discussed, and indeed is debated,
I can not stress enough that it is being debated by many Muslim scholars
That the reason for leaving these verses is deliberately vague
Is to leave space for women to choose what they wear
Based on the traditions of its society
Time change.
And that the term “veil”
Guess what?
Not mentioned in any of these verses.
In fact, nowhere in the Qur’an did he mention a head covering.
This does not mean that the word is not mentioned in the Holy Quran
Because they already mentioned.
But when I mentioned, they were in the right place
It means a barrier or barrier.
Such as the eyebrow or barrier between humans and their creators
Or between believers and non-believers.
Or means physical barrier
Who asked the men during the Prophet’s time to stand behind him
When talking to his wives.
Or isolation, the chapter sought by the Virgin Mary
When she was giving birth to Jesus.
This separator or insulation,
I mean hijab.
That is the separation wall
Means hijab;
This barrier separates,
I mean hijab.
A hijab does not mean a woman’s head cover.
However, is not it strange that what this term actually means,
Be invisible, isolation away, booking, separation,
These are the terms that come to mind
When we think about Muslim women?
why not?
We have all seen how Muslims treat the world:
If you try to go to school
A bullet in the head;
If you try to drive the car,
Incarcerated;
If you try to share
In the political upheavals that are taking place in her country,
To be heard or taken into account,
Are subject to public assault.
He avoided hiding in the dark at the outskirts of the city
Some men now have the nerve to attack a woman walking on the pavement
In the sight of the world.
And do not care about hiding their identities,
They are more eager to make headlines.
They are busy recording videos and uploading them to YouTube
To show off what they have done.
Why did they not hide their crime?
They do not feel they have committed any offense.
It is women who are guilty.
It is women who fill their heads with ridiculous ideas,
Ideas that led them to leave their homes
And out into society
Believing that they are participating,
We all know
That honorable women are those who stay in their homes;
Poor women are those who remain invisible.
Just like ordinary women
In the era of the Prophet.
Is that correct?
1400 years ago was a long time before the emergence of feminist movements.
Were the women locked behind the doors, covered with scarves?
Well, it turns out that the first wife of the Prophet
It was what he half today
Executive Director.
She was a successful trader
Her convoy was equivalent to convoys of all merchants together.
I have initially headed a successful company in import and export.
When I appointed the Prophet Muhammad to work then,
His family believed him in dealing
So she made his speech.
(Laughter)
I’m not sure how many women will feel comfortable
To present the man’s speech today.
And Mohammed’s second wife?
She was not too lopsided,
I participated in a battle on the back of a camel
Which is equal to the participation of a woman in today’s battle
Inside a military vehicle or a tank.
What about other women?
Records show that women were asking to participate
In the Islamic revolutions that were going on around the Prophet.
One of the women was famous for being a brigadier
When she led an army of men into battle and suppressed the rebellion.
Men and women were intertwined, exchanging gifts freely,
It was a custom to choose a woman as a man to take a husband and progress.
When things did not work out,
They were seeking divorce.
They even argued with the Prophet freely.
It seems to me that if the fundamentalists wanted
Return of Islam As it was in 680 AD,
May be a big step forward.
(Laughter)
May be considered as progress.
(clap)
But we still have to answer an important question,
If it is not in Islamic history, if it is not in the Qur’an,
How do we in our time,
Were we able to tie the veil to Muslim women?
With their separation from society,
Isolated and isolated,
Immune to the most basic human rights?
I hope it does not surprise you that this is not a coincidence.
Over the last few decades, it is people who have served a mission
Reading and interpreting Qur’aan
In many different Islamic societies,
Some religious scholars have set another interpretation
Of the three verses concerning women.
For example, the verse I mentioned before you:
“O Prophet
Say to your husbands and daughters
And women of believers
They will be condemned by their neighbors
The lowest that they know, do not hurt “
Some clerics, not all of them, some of them
He added a few words to explain that verse,
To become, in some explanations,
“O Prophet
Say to your husbands, your daughters, and the women of the believers
They will be condemned by their neighbors
“Robes are a robe
Covers the entire head and face
Neck and chest down to ankles
And to the wrists.
Everything in a woman’s body must be covered except for one eye
Because you’ll need to look where you go
The hands should be covered with a glove. “
For sure,
There were many gloves at the time in the middle of the Saudi desert.
(Laughter)
Etc, etc., etc. “
Continuing to say
“That is lower that they know;
And those who call the clergy
Have concluded based on these explanations
That women have one job.
To find out what this function is,
All you have to do is read some Fatwas or Shariah rulings
Issued by these clerics.
Let me give you a sample.
The girl must complete the primary school only
Before she gets married.
Which puts it in anything? Age of maturity between 11 and 12 years of age?
A woman can not fulfill her obligations to the Lord
To complete her physical obligations towards her husband.
If he wants as she sits on the camel’s hump,
Must be subject.
Islam forbids women from wearing a bra
Because it lifts it and makes the woman look smaller
Which counts as a kind of deception.
Fattaway’s favorite:
If a man has ulcers secreted by a pus,
From the top of his head to the bottom of his feet,
And her affliction,
Even that will not do what you owe him.
These teachings and many others that relate to women
Produced the following:
The best women and their honor are
Uneducated
Which are helpless,
Not very different from the nation.
Who remain at home without complaint, without a bra.
(Laughter)
Equipped and available to him at all times to satisfy all his whims
Even if she had to lick his entire body;
Meet all his wishes,
Whether asleep or on camel’s back.
Does this seem to you as the will of the Lord?
Does this look like teachings in a Bible?
Or look like strange, uncomfortable and sexual teachings,
Issued by the imagination of a sick man who hates women?
Are those who call themselves clerics?
The fundamentalists, the extremists who support them,
They purify Islam honestly
And restore it to its usual form as revealed?
Or these men do not differ much
From those who stood on the outskirts of the city
Tired of catching the next woman?
Thank
(clap)
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