Pivotal Quotes
❝These slogans are similar to what Shayṭān whispered to Ādam (عليه السلام).❞
❝Do not be fooled by these statements and flashy catchphrases which are sponsored by the Jews.❞
❝Feminist female organizations are funded by the USA and there is an agenda behind them.❞
❝Then they should not be tricked and fooled. There are people who are pushing forward these things and they have an agenda which is not in your best interest. Does it sound good? perhaps. Are the outcomes good? No! Just like the ‘Women’s Liberation Movement,’ when they were telling women “you are going to get your rights, you are going to get paid, you are going to get a job, you are going to get this, then she gets the job but she was miserable and said, ‘I wish I could go back home and take care of my children.’❞
Question and Answer (Arabic/ English) [29:47 Mins]
Question:
How do we advise Muslim Women who have been affected by certain slogans and statements that come from feminism in the West, who say things like “women power” and “women are the world” and “women are the future”?
Answer:
These slogans sound good on paper and they are really flashy, however the reality is that the true happiness and tranquility that a woman feels, is when she adheres to her dīn, not when she is running in the streets trying to rule the world. The happiness that a woman truly feels, is in worshiping her Lord.
Statements like these, which sound good on paper, have pulled the wool over the eyes of many.
They have tricked women by telling them that their happiness lies in taking to the streets and competing with men in the workplace. They say to her, “are you going to let the men have all of the goods and you are not going to get any for yourself?” They tricked her, and she went out to the workplace, but did she find that happiness she was looking for? She found nothing but misery. And what do they do? They sit back and laugh.
These slogans are similar to what Shayṭān whispered to Ādam (عليه السلام).
It is exactly these types of slogans that the enemies use to trick people. Just look at Iblīs, Shayṭān. When he came and whispered to Ādam (عليه السلام) and told him to eat from the tree. Did Shayṭān tell Ādam, ‘I want to take you out of the place that is going to make you entirely happy?’ No! He tricked him! He used this nice catchphrase and said,
﴾ هَلْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَىٰ شَجَرَةِ ٱلْخُلْدِ وَمُلْكٍ لَّا يَبْلَىٰ ﴿
“Shall I lead you to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that will never waste away?” [Sūrah Ṭā Hā 20:120]
That is how he tricked him. He used this flashy catchphrase to pull him in. The feminists also have flashy catchphrases just like Iblīs. When they say ‘the women are the future,’ (ask yourself) ‘so what is going to happen to the men in the future?’ Do you want women to run the society and for the men to stay at home in the kitchen? How exactly do you want this? Yes, it sounds good, but how do you want it to happen? You want them to change places or what?
They say this in spite of the fact that they know deep down inside that this is foolishness. Just look in recent history how they opened the doors for women to run for president like Hillary Clinton, although they themselves know that women are not made for positions of leadership like this, yet they have all of these calls to equality and have all these flashy catchphrases. When they told woman that she would find happiness if she left her home and entered the workplace, what was her response after that? She went out to the workplace and wished that she could go back home.
Do not be fooled by these statements and flashy catchphrases which are sponsored by the Jews.
The two biggest, richest and influenceral Jewish families; the Rockefellers and the Rothschild are behind catchphrases like these. During an interview with a member of the Rockefeller family, he said to a journalist, ‘We need to get the women out of the home, do you know why?’ The journalist said in reply, ‘in order to give her full rights?’ The member of the Rockefeller family replied. ‘You must be an idiot, you must have had your eyes closed. What we want by getting the women outside the home is to busy them so that they would have no time to look after their children. Then they would give us their children so that we can look after them.’ This is where forced public schooling came from; from the Rockefellers family. And then he said, “once we get them into our schools, we can plant anything we want in their brains, brainwash them and teach them whatever we want”.
Feminist female organizations are funded by the USA and there is an agenda behind them.
For example here in Yemen, it is a normal cultural practice for people to get married early. In Haḍramaut, 15 is the average age people get married. Why are international organizations all up in arms about this? Why are they making such a big deal about a cultural practice that has worked for generations and many people have grown up and started families at a young age, something that has been tried and tested and has been going on for longer than these organizations have existed! Why are they upset about this? Why are they taking it to the governments and saying that you have to make a law that says that the minimum age for marriage is 18 years old? What is behind this?
Why do feminist organizations wish to get rid of early marriage?
They themselves know that people reach the age of puberty sometimes at 10 years old. Sometimes a little bit more and sometimes a little bit less. But if we took the age of 10 and say this is the average age when people reach puberty and start developing sexual desires, it means they want people to sit for 8 long years with that temptation of the opposite sex. They want to prolong the age of temptation and (increase the risk of) falling into fornication because they want to turn society inside out.
And when they find a case of a girl getting married at a young age and things do not work out and a divorce happens, although this also happens with people that get married well into their 30’s, grown, mature, professional people get married and then divorce, what do they do when they see a young girl that gets married and then a divorced? They blow everything out in the media.
There was a case like this in Yemen. A young girl got married and things did not work out and she got divorced. What did they do? They went and did several interviews with her and put it on T.V and made a movie about it, telling the world that early marriage does not work and it is a fairytale.
Do they want people to delay marriage until the age of 60!?
Look at all the people that get married in their 30’s and 40’s and then get divorced. What are you going to tell the people? That you need to make the age of marriage 60 years old? They have another agenda. These people are putting pressure on the governments and parliaments, telling people they have to wait till the age of 18 and that you can not get married before the age of 18. Where did they get that number from? Some marriages do not work at age of 30, what do you want to do? How long do you want the people to wait before they can get married?
If a marriage does not work out then a divorce happens. For example, if a father chooses an unsuitable candidate for his daughter, then that is his fault. It is not his daughter’s fault. it does not mean that marriages will not work out if people get married young.
Sometimes there are situations where families have limited resources and they have to share their accommodation. Sometimes there are two brothers who are both married and have children, and these two families all live under one roof. Eventually what happens? A teenage boy gets attracted to his female cousin as they live under one roof. They are attracted to each other and they are right there living next to each other and sleeping next to each other. This is a problem. Sometimes the situation is to pair them up and get them married so that nothing immoral happens. So, from a young age to say to them you both are getting married, that is the situation to the problem.
No one criticized the prophet’s (صلى الله عليه وسلم) marriage to ʿĀ’ishah (رضى الله عنها) during that time.
The prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) married ʿĀ’ishah (رضى الله عنها) at the age of 6 and consummated the marriage at the age of 9. No one from the enemies of Islām, or from the munāfiqūn that were looking for every opportunity to speak out and find any fault that they could with Islām, the Qur’ān or the prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), nobody said anything about this. Why? Because it was normal. Plenty of people got married at that age. Had there been anything out of the ordinary about it, then they would have blew it up. Why didn’t they? Because it was normal.
The ḥadīth is in Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī that says the prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) married ʿĀ’ishah (رضى الله عنها) at the age of 6 and consummated the marriage at the age of 9. Why did a millennium go by and nobody said anything and nobody ever denied this ḥadīth which is ṣaḥīḥ in Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī ? Because everyone knew it was normal and practiced and that people got married young. Nobody dared to say anything about it because there was nothing out of the ordinary about it. Had it not been common to get married young then the enemies of Islām like the munāfiqūn would have said something about it. But for a thousand years nobody said anything about it until times changed. Nowadays people are saying something about it and denying something which has been accepted for millennium and which is ṣaḥīḥ.
You have likes of Islām Biḥīrī an Egyptian writer denying what is in Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī . There is also Aḥmed Subḥī another Egyptian writer and intellectual who works for an American institute, an orientalist institute, waging war against Islām.
So going back to the original question, what is the advice to the sisters who may be influenced by these feminist slogans? Then they should not be tricked and fooled. There are people who are pushing forward these things and they have an agenda which is not in your best interest. Does it sound good? perhaps. Are the outcomes good? No! Just like the ‘Women’s Liberation Movement,’ when they were telling women “you are going to get your rights, you are going to get paid, you are going to get a job, you are going to get this, then she gets the job but she was miserable and said, ‘I wish I could go back home and take care of my children.’
Western charity and relief organizations in the Muslim lands have their own agenda.
There are also these relief and charity organizations which take advantage of the political instability in the Muslim world and take advantage of civil wars and the poverty which is present in some Muslim countries. I personally travelled out to the countryside here in Yemen and spoke to the people there and found out that there are these Western relief organizations that come to those areas, and what do they coming with? They come with charity. They come and offer help as they know people are going through tough times, as there is political instability in Yemen, so what are these Western relief organizations doing? They come and offer much needed resources. But they have some rules. The man of the house cannot be the one that comes and receives the aid. Rather, the woman has to be the one to come and receive the relief aid. Not only does she have to be the one that comes out alone by herself to recive whatever help is being offered, but she has to pose for the camera so they can take some snaps of her receiving this help. What do you think they are going to do with the pictures? Why do they not want the men? Why do they need to take pictures? Ask yourself that question.
On top of that, they hire locals to help with these efforts. And who do they hire to distribute this charity? Pretty young girls and they have them travel to these impoverished rural areas, far away from their homes. Do these pretty young girls have their fathers or brother escorting them and looking out for their best interests? No, in fact they put a young ‘cat’ to accompany her. What do you think they want to happen to her? They want to open the doors of lewdness, fornication and immortality and they have all these flashy catchphrases to accompany all these tricky efforts of theirs.
Do you find these charitable organizations and the likes in Saudi Arabia? No! Why not? Because the country is economically stable. So they cannot come in and take advantage of people’s poverty because the government is taking care of it’s people. But, when there is civil war and poverty, this is where these aid organizations come in with their hidden agendas. So beware and do not be tricked! And Allāh knows best.