A CALL FROM THE MASJID UL HARAM TO THE MUSLIM WOMEN OF THE WORLD!
(From Makkah)
SHEIKH ABDUL RAHMAN AL SUDAIS.
All praise is due to Allaah, May peace and blessing be upon Muhammed
(sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and his house hold...
My Muslim sisters, you will never be able to reach the perfection
that you desire, you wont be able to regain the lost glory of your
past, or achieve your highest rank and position unless you follow
the teachings of Islaam and unless you stop at the boundaries and
limits of the Shariah. This will make your heart love and appreciate
the good qualities and will keep you away from bad and evil
qualities.
SO STAY AT YOUR HOMES. By Allaah you will be praised, you will
please your household and make your home happy, you will perfect
your hijab, you will perfect your chastity, relieve others and you
will make yourself happy and comfortable.
Allaah says : " Oh Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters, and
the women of the believers to draw their cloaks all over their
bodies. That will be better, that they should be known (as free
respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And Allah is ever oft-
forgiving, Most Merciful." (Surah AL-Ahzab )
So with Islaam you are a protected jewel, but without it you are a
doll in the hands of the wrongdoers; a mere object of amusement and
merchandise of trade in the hands of human wolves who will destroy
your chastity, your honour and your dignity, and then throw you and
disregard you as one does with a date fruit and its seed.
So whenever a woman abandons the teachings of Islaam and neglects
the proper Islaamic dress and takes easy the matter of hijab,
exposing herself to men (by) walking among them and wearing perfume,
her dignity and honour vanishes and her brightness disappears, and
her modesty dwindles and she becomes a source of fitnah (temptation
and trial) for others and the `evils` embrace her.
Therefore, oh Muslims woman, who cherishes and holds unto the honour
of Islaam (and is proud of the honour of Islaam) and Oh Free,
honourable chaste, and protected woman, you are the best successor
of the best past generation of the Muslims. Hold fast unto the Book
of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammed (sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam).
Beware of the hands of the wicked plotters and the jealous eyes, and
people with bad character and evil souls, who want to lower you from
the highness of your esteemed position and dignity, and lower you
from your glory of higher rank, and take you out from the circle of
your happiness.
And beware of the deception and defeat before the open war between
hijab and sufoor (revealing beauty), and between chastity and
liberalism.
The enemies of Islaam among the Jews and their followers are upset
and sleepless over the fact that the Muslim woman is honourable,
dignified and protected, so they put her under the spotlight, trap
her in nets and shoot with their arrows. Moreover it is strange that
some people from our skin and who speak our language follow them and
spread their ideas and fulfill their aims and wage in intellectual
and cultural war against our Muslims sisters, who are the moisture
of our faces, through the alluring and deceiving slogans and
charming articles here and there.
Thus they falsely and deceivingly call to her freedom of the women
and ask, and push, her to work, to coming out of her home. They
spread rumors about Muslim women saying:
"...The conservative Muslim society (the real one indeed, The Muslim
society can only be conservative) is that which half of it does
nothing and breathes only from one lung" and "how can a Muslim woman
stay prisoner at home between four walls" and other misleading
slogans.
They want freedom for the women, but in reality they want to free
her from her character and etiquette and to strip her from her
principles, dignity and honour, and lead her into evil and
corruption. They want her to be a fashion model and an item for sale
to the naive and simple minded (assuthajj wal busataa).
Who is then left to the well being of homes, to the happiness of
family, to raise and educate children?
How many young women get trapped and how much tragedy happens when
the hijab is destroyed and the jilbab (outer garment) is taken off
and the `wolves` (wicked men) devour the women? such is as a result
of sufoor and mingling with men in jobs, schools, and market places.
Isn't it enough reminder what societies, who did not practice the
teaching of Islam, fell into in terms of indecency, evils and
disappearance in values when they neglected and ignored the matter
of the woman? As a result of that there are now repeated calls in
these societies asking for the return of a woman to her protected
fort; her home.
Would any man with the slightest bit of honour and manhood be
content to see his wife become a `pasturage` of the eyes of wicked
men and to become ` a serving on the dining table`? the current
condition of some societies is a witness that when a woman goes out
of her home, it is a sign of destruction, loss, corruption, and
spread of mischief and indecency in society.
Therefore to all our Muslim Sister in the east and in the west of
the Muslim world, I call upon you from this Holy and Pure land ,
Makkah, to hold fast to the Qura'an and to bite unto the Sunnah of
the Messenger (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) with the front teeth and
to follow the teachings of Islaam and its etiquette.
And to the women organizations all over the world, beware of the
stupidity and bad results of the disobedience of the women to the
guidance of Islam. Beware of being tempted by the flashing slogans
and poisoned publicity against the character of the woman and her
principles.
And to the responsible people for the Muslim child in her education
and care, I call upon you to fear Allaah subhana wa ta'ala and to
fulfill your duty towards her while taking care of her belief,
educational and ethical aspects.
A clear limit and divider must be set against indecency, wicked
movies and naked pictures that destroy honour and virtue and that
develop dayathaa (absence of honor and manhood to the point where a
man does not care about the females of his family in terms of what
other men may do with them) and indecency.
As to the guardians of women, fathers and husbands, i remind them of
their qawaamah (protection and maintenance) of women according to
what Allah subhana wa ta'ala said:
"Men are the protectors and maintainers of women because Allaah has
made one of them excel the other, and because they spend (to support
them) from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly
obedient (to Allaah and to their husbands), and guard in their
husbands absence what Allaah orders them to guard. As to those women
on whose part you will see ill-conduct, admonish them (first),
(next), refuse to share their beds, (and last) beat them (lightly,
if it is useful), but if they return to obedience seek not against
them means (of annoyance) Surely Allaah is ever Most High, Most
Great." (Surah An-Nisa)
So they have to fear Allaah and save themselves and their children
from punishment of Allaah by raising and educating them according to
the teachings of Islam, and they should be warned from being loose
and neglectful in this matter. I call on their honour towards their
women and their manhood in order to preserve the honour and to
protect their mahram women, in addition to protecting their values,
principles and characters.
So, O wise people, take a lesson, and be aware and don't be deceived
for the successful is one who is reminded through the mistakes of
others, and know that the ummah has reached this sad state and
crisis only after it was hit in its system of life and when it
neglected the appropriate education and upbringing of its women. And
remember that the trustworthy and the trusted Prophet (sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam) said:
"I haven't left behind me a fitnah more harmful to men than women
(when they go astray from the guidance of Islam)" - Bukhari and
Muslim