what most of the people ignore while discussing some issues in islam is their ignorance or detachment with the basics of islam. whenever i read some thing about islam i have to consider it under what values and norms the writer is living, and with what what values and norms he is comparing and contrasting islam. to be very brief i want to say that islam was not revealed to enrich the people with worldly gains. it was not based on the principles of politics commerce or art. no body should read it with a mind to get some thing profitable in the fields of trade and business. rather it was a book to guide one in the world of spirit. the people who are very much worldly in their mind background and ambitions cant find it pleasant in any way. the writers who write against its rules are ignorant of all spiritual growths. they are simply worldly minded people. they dont know the requirements of hereafter.
if i am spiritual in mind and heart i cant feel pleasant in the company of modern businessmen and traders. i would not like to read any book on marketing and filmmaking. on the other hand if i am not spiritual, if my sole aim to satisfy my physical needs i would feel that islam has nothing to do with spirit or modern world. a person living in sex drugs and impure surrounding cant claim to understand the spiritual requirements of silam. if a person is sexual in habits, if his main source of living is sex and sex, he would not like anybody restricting women in homes. on the other hand if a person is spiritual he would not like any woman walking outside with face too lustful and body too arousing. even the women would not like to do this if their aim is to develop their spirit and gain hereafter.i think the readers may well understand what i want to say in between the lines.
now if we take islam as a spiritual religion, a guide for our spirits, its rules must be taken in the same context. we cant analyse its rules in the context and perspective of political and social development. minds change spirits remain the same.
what islam has permitted its women to do is totally on the base of spiritual development. islam has allowed her to do what her spirit and emotions demand. islam has not destroyed any feminine emotion. naturally women like to be submissive and passive. islam has kept them so. men like to be dominant and active. islam has kept them so. bashfulness and shyness is a natural women characterisitic. islam has not injured it anywhere. women
prefer to be chaste and modest. islam has provided them opportunity to be so in different circumstances of life.
islam has not harmed the nature of women anywhere. instead it has protected it. women are equal to men in islam. but not in proportion with their social activities but in proportion with their natural requirements.
go to the occasion of hajj and see if they are not equal even socially. there is no difference in the eyes of God at the occasion of hajj.
what people talk about the women in islam is with reference to the modern women. but they dont realise that the modern women have mentally become men. psychologically they are no more women. and then what changed them so are not religions but politics and media. they are using them as model and decoration piece.
the people say that the men in islam use women for their own purpose or enjoyment. i say if somebody has used them in the real sense it is the modern politician and business man. they should not have been educated like men. their books and syllabus should have been different. that could have allowed them to develop their natural traits and intstincts.
in the modern times the women are robbed of their natural self. they had never been so dependent and relying upon as they are now. we just need to see all this in broad perspective. imagine if a child of five year or less performs sexual intercourse with a girl of three. how unnatural it will seem to the elders, though the child will seem satisfied or unshocked at all. above all we cant say them children any more. some where in our mind we shall start considering them mature or adults. the infancy childhood and boyhood are reletively connected with their traits and habits. if their traits and habits are those of adults there is nothing like childhood or innocence. the word innocence and childhood are still used in perspective of sex. in other words we admit that the children and innocents people are non sexual.
like children and adults the women have their own category of mind. the politician and businessmen have deprived them of their own mind. they have made them men. when i see some woman performing like men in the fields of life and home i feel that some child is made to perform sex before his or her age. it seems quite unnatural. the child of course will not feel it.
may the women could understand what they have lost. they have lost the satisfaction of to be loved to be fought for to be won by to be kept dear. in past if men have been committing some cruelty to women they have been committing it to their own gender too. men have never been nice to men even. i dont think somebody may claim that the men have been more cruel to women than they have been to their own gender. as compared to their own gender they have been very very nice to women. they have been cherishing them for theirs and their comfort. on the other hand they have been killing men in thousands and millions. they have been keeping them slaves and servants.
while discussing the mistreatments with women one should try to see in this perspective too. men have not been cruel to only women, they have been cruel to even children and animals.
in the end i would like to say my readers that they should try to read that too what i have not written down.
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