hey so i had this ask in my inbox that i am yet to answer but i'm just her to spill my thoughts since i am in spam mode and must out with everything before i explode. Disclaimer this post will be islamic, i will be talking about my religion, if you are uninterested you are free to scroll
(this was supposed to be short but turned out longer than expected so i added a title)
Do you guys know the difference between culture and religion? Because i grew up being able to decipher between everything from experience, and i am understanding of why people misunderstand islam like i don’t expect everyone to know my religion but it kind of really matter and means so much to me so it hurts a little when i see it misjudged and so much misinformation spread. Because listen i HATE tradition i also HATE my culture to an extent but i love my religion.
A religion is judged through its scriptures
the culture is judged based on how a group of people act or think.
Now this is definitely a fault of the muslim community because many don’t really follow the Quran or the hadith. the people aren’t really representative of the religion. And all of those “dawa bros” online haven’t studied religion and just hate women along with the propaganda wherever in the world so there’s this going thing with muslim women being “oppressed” because of islam which is simply NOT true
Before islam women weren’t allowed to inherit or vote or divorce or choose who they want to marry, little girls would be buried alive because being a girl was considered a “shame” at that time. When islam came, back in the seventh century a women got the legal right to inherit, and the law that man takes twice as much as the female is in only seventeen out of thirty something cases so it’s not something that always happens but because we have to look at who the man will be responsible for supporting financially for example lets say a brother and a sister are both to inherit, if the brother is to marry he would be religiously legally obligated to support his wife and kids financially while his sister isn’t demanded to do that, so basically a man’s money isn’t just for him but he has responsibilities and obligations while the woman’s money is only hers and she’s not (religiously) obligated to give anyone anything unless she wants. So they were obligated to support their families financially and given the means to do so which is only fair. Women were given the right to vote, and to marry a woman had to be mature enough and willing so forcing a woman to marry someone she doesn’t want is haram. Burying daughters alive was SHAMED in the Quran And it is a HUGE SIN, in a hadith it’s mentioned that a father can enter the Jannah by simply being good and loving to his daughters, in another Hadith it is said that the Jannah is under a mother’s feet. Islam actually honors women so much.
The prophet Muhammad peace be upon him first wife was Khadijah (رضي الله عنها) they met because he worked for her, she was a successful and respected businesswoman, she was also very emotionally intelligent and independent, and the prophet peace be upon him always spoke so highly of her and he relied on her so much, she had remained unmarried and spent her 30s focusing oh her career and she was the one to approach the prophet peace be upon him breaking the stereotypes. Even after her death the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him always spoken so fondly of her and got hurt and upset when anyone spoke slightly unkindly of her, and immediately defended her. His youngest daughter Fatima (رضي الله عنها) was said to walk like him, when she’d enter the room it is narrated that the prophet peace be upon him would stop whatever he was doing, go over to her, kiss her hand and offer that she sits next to him, Aisha (رضي الله عنها) was also his other wife years after Khadija (رضي الله عنها) passed away, she was not blessed with kids but her blessing was her knowledge, she had an assertive and loud personality which she was never once shamed for, she was bold and emotional and playful, she and the prophet saw would race to the tree and played a lot for fun, over 2000 Hadith’s were narrated by her, she contributed to this ummah by her knowledge and strong personality. Women were the backbone back then, they were warrior women like nusaybah bint ka’ab on the battle of uhud, they were physicians such as rufaydah al aslamiyyah. A war was once started because a muslim woman was harassed in the market so they went into a fight just to defend her. In islam every muslim - man and woman - or obligated to seek knowledge. The first ever university was founded by a muslim woman: Fatima al-Fihriya.
prophet peace be upon him last words in his final speech before passing away was “take care of your women” and he empathized and repeated it more than once
I know it looks ugly on media i see it too but these people haven’t studied anything and do not know anything, they don’t speak out of faith but out of misogyny
3:195 And their Lord responded to them, "Never will I allow to be lost the work of [any] worker among you, whether male or female; you are of one another.
I have more to say but that’s it for now
