09-15-2004, 05:29 PM
JohnDoe,
I didn't say your road is blind, did I? My road is called the Sirat-al-Mustaqim, the STRAIT Path, the blind alley that you refer to may be the road in the next block?...
Don't you have any week points? It IS rather human you know...
I am not sure if it says permission or not in any case, this may belong to the Hadith, I hope one of my brothers or sisters can help me out to find the right one. Do you have time to wait a bit for the answer, or are you going somewhere?
Just a reflection, if your wife says, STOP you cannot go to the store right now, beacuse... IF you adhear her, what you really did in the first place was to 'ask' for her permission to go. (You don't always have to use the ? mark.) If it is ok, if she can be without you for a little while. You can ask in different ways. Just a reflection...
No, I as a female living and practising Islam and doing my best to follow the Qur'an and Sunnah, no again, I don't feel dominated by any male, I absolutely not feel marginalised and by no way am I treated inferior. And now bear in mind that I speak of MUSLIM mens treatments, not others. I don't say that all non-Muslims are behaving badly, many are descent, BUT that is because they BEHAVE differently when they see a woman totally covered up. It is the way I understood Islam before I entered and this is how I deeply experience it today. And this is MY truth by living by Islam. I feel free within Islam. When I meet an unknown man on the pavement and he takes several steps to the side not to be confronted to me, that makes me so happy. That makes me feel respected and honoured. Believe me I have tried also to live as a 'free woman' in a 'free society' walking down the street meeting people on the way and THAT kind of freedom I have NO wish to have back. It is like comparing the Muslim behaviour with Paradise and the other one with the other place. I have to exaggerate a bit to waken you up.
Good. But here you are talking of ABUSE, that is another matter. So the womens lib is well needed in the west, in spite all equality? I wonder why?...
The discription you mention is probably taken from Islam, admit it you took it from there!
Let me just make a very small reflection. If I hew wood, I do it because I am a woman not beacause I have to do what a man does. Besides you men (I assume you are one, sorry if I am mistaken) will NEVER be able to bear a child and deliver it, so if you want to make an equal list that contains doing things 50/50 that will never do. In a lifetime. The equality factor in Islam adhear this kind of different roles. It has nothing to do with being unequal. But IF you really don't even WANT to have in insight in this, you will never understand this wisdom. It will remain a secret for you.
Regards