Re: Glad tidings of jannat for women
An oral tradition that has come down to us suggested that a Muslim woman can potentially send several men to hell starting with her father, her husband, her brother, her son, etc. Is this an authentic tradition?
I do not have a concordance of hadith to refer to the text you mentioned, and therefore cannot give a definite ruling on the hadith . Let me point out however, that a hadith may be rejected for a fault in its chain of narrators (sanad ), its text per se (matn ), or an 'illah, which is a fault that can only be detected after thorough research that must be done by the most objective scholars. Despite the fact that almost all of the ahadith that concern women and their status are false, we again cannot rule as such on the hadith in question. This is because, as far as the Islamic law goes, the hadith is perfectly concordant with our belief. For if you have reported the textual translation correctly, it implies that the woman herself will remain free from hell.
Allah (s.w.t) has not dictated in His justness that one should bear the burden of another. In light of other traditions, such as the one in the farewell pilgrimage where the Prophet (s.a.a.w) allegedly warned us to take good care of the females, and the hadith wherein he said: “The best of you is he who is the best to his womenfolk,” we can say that the hadith is rather a case for the women, as opposed to being against them. For what it is doing is in fact warning the father that in the oppression and discrimination against his daughter, he is writing a ticket to hell. As are the husband, brother, and son {remember that the Holy Prophet (s.a.a.w) mentioned the respect due to the mother thrice before he mentioned the father} – if they are guilty of the same sins as the father.Those evil women and children's education
Right, so its not that a perfectly innocent good male will get punished for a female’s deeds or the other way around. But rather that if you don’t do your best to help another muslim woman out, it just shows that you’re not a good muslim yourself.
Much of the problem is in how things are interpreted and explained rather in their true meanings. Its very easy to take a simple concept, twist it around, and give it another meaning. And hence one should be careful before they post a load of nonsense as such has been posted by the OP.