Give me a couple of days. I'm going to come up with a response to this, that will hopefully clear up your ignorance about Islam.
sure....I'll be glad to learn from you.
If you really believe this, then I don't know why you're still muslim, because your own religion is saying that chances are - no matter how hard you try - you're probably going to hell. Pack those bags, lady.
If Allah wants to send me to Hell even after I try to worship Him and obey him and do the things that hadith required then so be it, He's my Lord, I pray for his Guidance and Mercy. But Islam also says not even men can earn their way to Paradise. After the balancing of sins with good deeds, only Mercy of Allah can take people to Paradise.
If Allah wants to send me to Paradise for the same things then this will be His mercy and I will learn that I have not shared the same fate as all these women, I believe the Prophet (pbuh) saw the truth so I can pack my bags as I have no where to run to? ... But Allah will then surely catch me and put me in amongst them, if I try.
This hadith can be viewed as a warning. If a woman bases Islam from this hadith alone, then she may be misled, however, Islam is fair, by making it much easier for women to earn rewards. Simply by doing her natural duties she can earn high rewards, that males do not have the benefit of. Also, remember there are also more women than men in population also. Now think if the hadith is truthful or not.
Um, no. The reason why men will go to hell is also because of their sins. Please don’t try to put men and women on different plains of judgment, when the Quran is quite clear that they are judged in the same way on the Day of Judgement, and that they are responsible for the same basic muslim obligations.
This and the other quote which says that hell will be full of women don’t go together. As in the world, the number of women is more than that of men and for every woman who goes to hell, there are 4 men who go to hell then how come the number of women in hell will be more than number of men in hell. The number of men in hell should be “at least” twice that of women
Glad Tidings Of Jannat For Women
These are not sahîh hadith, although some may be at least da`îf.
Someone with greater knowledge may check this. They are possibly sayings
collected by Hazrat Maoulana Saeed Khan Sahib Muhajir Madani. The gist of these sayings accord to the Islamic message and point to the fact that if Muslim women act upon their original and natural function, their reward will be immense, so these sayings are for encouragement, not to be taken letter for letter. http://mac.abc.se/~onesr/ez/isl/jannat-women.html
I’ve found this.
These ahadith are not authentic…some of them may be true at some level.
(My personal opinion)So Ladies please try to concentrate on positve points instead of other way round.
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.
If a women glances at men she is not allowed to see according to the shariah- allah taala sends his curse upon her, just as it is forbidden for a man to glance at women he is not allowed to see.this is true????/quote]
Read people read!! Gosh whats up with the selective readng in here... I did not by any means state this article to be a revelation of Allah to me now did I? I simply posted this and then asked if this is TRUE.... for those who are asking for a source, can pm me and ill provide you with the link that a good friend of mine passed on to me
Introduction
This article is intended for my Muslim sisters who don’t wear hijab and are not sure they want to. Sisters who have already decided to wear hijab but are nervous about actually doing it should read my article Tips for Beginning to Wear Hijab instead.
Islam: Submitting our will to the will of Allah SWT
The Arabic word islam simply means “surrender (to Allah)”. The essence of our religion is this surrender or submission. It requires trust on our part. Trust that Allah SWT will be there for us, trust that He knows what is best for us.
Submission to Allah SWT requires that we put Him before ourselves. That we put our desires second to His desire for us. That we acknowledge that He knows better than we do what is right for us.
Very often, such submission is difficult. Sometimes it seems that everything that happens is bad, and we wonder how Allah SWT could desire this for us. And sometimes the things He asks of us are difficult to do, either because it seems too much to ask, or because it seems pointless or out of date. In times like this, submission becomes a struggle. We really have to work to find our trust in Allah SWT. We really have to do battle with our souls to admit that what we want or what we think doesn’t seem to be what’s right or best. Should we bother?
For me, the answer is yes, we should bother. Allah SWT tests us. He sends difficulties our way to see how we cope. He wants to see if we will keep trying even when it’s a challenge. He wants to see if we will maintain our faith in Him, and trust in Him. If we do continue to have faith and to trust in Him, then He may reward us with Jannah for our sabr, inshallah. And Jannah is the everlasting reward. Any difficulty we face in the world will seem as fleeting as a nightmare when we look back from the Hereafter, and any ease we face in the world will also seem as fleeting as a dream. We shouldn’t set these fleeting states as our goal; we should set the ultimate happiness as our goal. And the ultimate happiness is Jannah.
So if we have hope of Jannah, we should persevere even when it’s a struggle for us, and we should keep on trying to perfect our submission to Allah SWT. This is what the religion is about: sabr, jihad, and islam.
Quran and Sunna: The way that Allah SWT has commanded
I mentioned above that part of Islam is trusting that Allah SWT knows what is best for us, and it is submitting to His judgment even if we don’t think we agree. If Allah SWT has commanded something that we don’t understand or don’t like, we shouldn’t reject that thing. Instead, we should try to seek its wisdom for ourselves and to change our own minds.
Now, the testimony of faith that we make to become Muslims, or when we assume adult status in the deen, has two parts: laa ilaha ill’Allah and Muhammadan rasul Allah. The first of these, none has the right to be worshiped except Allah, is a statement of our belief that Allah SWT is ruler of all, judge of all, all-knowing, all-powerful. It is He who must be obeyed, and obedience to anybody else is merely conditional and must not be done if they ask us to disobey Allah SWT. And Allah SWT has given us everything we have, our existence, our life, our capabilities, our goodness. If He took any of it away, there is no power that could help us get it back. And we could never repay Him to match what He has given us, or even begin to. However, in his infinite mercy, Allah SWT asks of us only that we obey Him. Isn’t it the least that we can do for Him after all that He has done for us?
There is also the second testimony, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. The Prophet (sAas) would not be a messenger if he did not come with a message. And his message is the Quran. We are really also testifying that the Quran is a message from Allah SWT, and therefore, obedience to Allah SWT entails obedience to the Quran, because it is His word.
The Quran also tells us to obey the Prophet (sAas) as well as Allah SWT (see for example Surah an-Nisa ayah 59). It tells us that if we have faith we will take the Prophet (sAas) as the judge of any dispute (Surah an-Nisa ayah 65). It tells us that when both Allah SWT and the Prophet (sAas) have decided a matter it is not for a Muslim or Muslimah to have any further say in that matter (Surah al-Ahzab ayah 36). It tells us that what the Prophet (sAas) has given us, we should take and what he has prohibited to us, we should refrain from (Surah al-Hashr ayah 7). And it tells us that the Prophet (sAas) has been sent not just to deliver the Quran but also to explain it (Surah an-Nahl ayah 44).
How do we determine what the Prophet (sAas) has ordered, in order to obey it?
How do we find out what he judged in disputes so that we can abide by it?
How do we know what he has decided on matters, so that we can submit to it?
How do we discover what he has given, so that we can take it, or what he has prohibited, so we can abstain from it?
How do we learn how he has explained the Quran, so that we can follow that explanation and not other explanations?
The answer to all these questions is that we look at the Sunna. The Sunna is the Quran put into action by the Prophet (sAas). It shows what he ordered, judged, and decided. It shows what he has given us and what he has prohibited to us. It shows how he explained the Quran.
If we do not obey what the Prophet (sAas) has ordered, or abide by what he has judged, or submit to what he has decided, or take what he has given, or refrain from what he has prohibited, or follow his explanation of the Quran - then we have disobeyed Allah SWT.
That is why, if we are sincere about obeying Allah SWT and following His commandments, we should follow both the Quran and the Sunna.
Hijab: A commandment of the Quran and Sunna
In the first part of this article, I have argued that part of our commitment to Allah SWT is to trust that He knows what is best for us and that what He has commanded is what is right. I said that if we find ourselves disliking the way that He has set for us, our challenge is not to ignore or to try to change His command, but rather it is to seek for ourselves the wisdom in the command and to surrender to His will. If we don’t like what He has commanded, we should try to change ourselves not Him. We should try to find reasons why His command is right and will be beneficial for us, and we should try to motivate ourselves through this to obey the command.
In the second part of the article, I have established why the Quran and Sunna are where we look to find what Allah SWT has commanded. Neither one can be taken alone but they both go together.
So, what do the Quran and Sunna say about hijab? There are two ayat of the Quran that deal with hijab. These are Surah an-Nur ayah 31 and Surah al-Ahzab ayah 59. Let’s look at what these ayat say, and how the Prophet (sAas) has explained them.
Surah an-Nur ayah 31 says: Wa qul li al-mu’minat yaghdudna min absarihinna wa yahfazna furujahunna wa laa yubdina zenatahunna illa maa zahara min haa wal-yadribna bi khumurihinna ala juyubihinna; wa laa yubdina zenatahunna illa li bu’ulatihinna aw aba’ihinna aw aba’i bu’ulatihinna aw abna’ihinna aw abna’i bu’ulatihinna aw ikhwanihinna aw bani ikhwanihinna aw bani akhawatihinna aw nisa’ihinna aw maa malakat aymanu hunna aw at-tabi’ina ghayri ulu’l-irbat min ar-rijal aw at-tifl alladhina lam yazharu ala awrat an-nisa wa laa yadribna bi arjulihinna li yu’lama maa yukhfina min zenatahinna. Wa tubu ilaAllahi jami’an, ayyuha al-mu’minun la’allakum tuflihun And say to the faithful women to lower their gazes, and to guard their private parts, and not to display their beauty except what is apparent of it, and to extend their headcoverings (khimars) to cover their bosoms (jaybs), and not to display their beauty except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husband’s fathers, or their sons, or their husband’s sons, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their womenfolk, or what their right hands rule (slaves), or the followers from the men who do not feel sexual desire, or the small children to whom the nakedness of women is not apparent, and not to strike their feet (on the ground) so as to make known what they hide of their adornments. And turn in repentance to Allah together, O you the faithful, in order that you are successful
Surah al-Ahzab ayah 59 says: Ya ayyuha an-Nabiyy qul li azwajika wa banatika wa nisa al-mu’minin yudnina alayhinna min jalabib hinna; dhalika adna an yu’rafna fa laa yu’dhayn. Wa kana Allahu Ghafur Rahim O Prophet! Say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the faithful to draw their outergarments (jilbabs) close around themselves; that is better that they will be recognized and not annoyed. And God is ever Forgiving, Gentle.
Together, these two ayat lay out seven commandments for Muslim sisters:
“to lower their gazes”
“to guard their private parts”
“not to display their beauty except what is apparent of it”
“to extend their headcoverings to cover their bosoms”
“not to display their beauty except to their husbands or their fathers…”
“not to strike their feet (on the ground) so as to make known what they hide”
“to draw their outergarments close around themselves” *
It can be seen that three of these commandments relate to behavior. These are:
lowering the gaze
guarding the private parts
not striking the feet on the ground so as to give knowledge of what is hidden
Lowering the gaze means not looking at what is forbidden to be seen of others. Guarding the private parts means that only the husband is allowed to see or touch them. Not giving knowledge of what is hidden means not posturing or strutting around so as to jangle hidden jewelry or make men think about hidden body parts. All of these are part of what Allah SWT has commanded in regard to hijab.
The other four commandments relate to dress, and can really be expressed as three rules:
not displaying the beauty beyond “what is apparent of it” except to the people listed in 24:31
extending the headcovering to cover the bosom
drawing the outergarment close around
What exactly is the meaning of each of these rules? For this, we need to look to the Sunna, because the Sunna shows us how the Prophet (sAas) explained the Quran.
The Prophet (sAas) explained to Asma bint Abu Bakr (rAa) that the phrase “what is apparent of it” refers to the face and hands. This is narrated by Aisha Umm al-Muminin (rAa), Qatada (rAa), and Asma bint Umais (rAa). This has been confirmed as the explanation of the phrase by the following scholars:
Sahaba: Aisha Umm al-Muminin (rAa), ibn Abbas (rAa), Anas ibn Malik (rAa), and Miswar ibn Makhrama (rAa)
Tabi’un: Ata (rAa), Qatada (rAa), Sa’id ibn Jubayr (rAa), Mujahid (rAa), al-Hasan (rAa), and al-Dahhak (rAa)
Commentators on the Quran: Imam Tabari, Imam Zamakhshari, Imam Razi, and Imam Qurtubi
In fact, the majority of scholars have agreed that the phrase “what is apparent of it” refers to the face and hands. For further information, please see Opinions of Scholars in Favor of Displaying the Face and Hands.
Therefore, the first rule can really be phrased as “do not display the beauty except for the face and hands around non-mahram men”. This is the basic rule of hijab. You must recognize it. This is where it comes from. It is nothing other than the Prophet’s (sAas) explanation of the Quran.
The second rule is to extend the headcovering (khimar) to cover the bosom. The commentators on the Quran have explained exactly what this command entails: Imam Abu Abdullah Qurtubi: “Women in those days used to cover their heads with the khimar, throwing its ends upon their backs. This left the neck and the upper part of the chest bare, along with the ears, in the manner of the Christians. Then Allah commanded them to cover those parts with the khimar.” Imam Abu’l-Fida ibn Kathir: “‘Extend their khimars to cover their bosoms’ means that they should wear the khimar in such a way that they cover their chests so that they will be different from the women of the jahiliyyah who did not do that but would pass in front of men with their chests uncovered and with their necks, forelocks, and earrings uncovered.”
From this we can see that the jahili women wore their khimars kaffiyah-style, with the ends tossed over their backs. This covered most of the hair, but left the forelock (front of the hair), the ears, the neck, and the upper chest uncovered. Then when the commandment, “Extend their khimars to cover their bosoms,” was revealed, the women secured their khimars around the circles of their faces, fastened them at the chin, and let the ends drape down toward their bosoms. This would cover the forelock, the ears, the neck, and the upper chest, just as Imam Qurtubi and Imam ibn Kathir have indicated. And the end result is clearly a headscarf.
So what we have is that all of the body except the face and hands is commanded to be covered around non-mahram men (by the clause “not to display their beauty except what is apparent of it”), and the covering of the hair, ears, neck, and upper chest is specifically to be accomplished by the khimar (headscarf).
These are the two rules indicated by Surah an-Nur ayah 31, and once we understand how the Prophet (sAas) explained the meaning of the ayah, we can see that it clearly and explicitly sets out the dress of the Muslim sister around non-mahram men: a headscarf and conservative clothing that together cover everything but the face and the hands.
There is also the commandment in Surah al-Ahzab ayah 59 to wear a jilbab (outergarment). According to the majority of the scholars, this commandment applies when a sister is outdoors or in open public places (like the market or the masjid). The jilbab is thus the modest Islamic coat that goes over our modest Islamic clothes whenever we would wear a coat.
To learn more about the jilbab, please read my article Evidences for Jilbab. This sets out dalils from the Quran and Sunna, and the opinions of the scholars regarding the jilbab. To summarize the information in that document, the jilbab is any garment that meets the following conditions:
it is an outergarment, an extra layer, something worn over the clothes
it is thick and opaque and loosely cut so that it conceals what is underneath it
if it is worn with a khimar and with socks and shoes, it should cover from the shoulders to the ankles; if it is worn without these, it must cover everything but the face and hands, like a cloak
Again, the jilbab is to be worn outdoors and in open public places. The purpose of wearing the jilbab is to assert our Islamic identity and to provide protection from harassment for us. It is part of our hijab for these locations. Summary
According to the Quran and Sunna, hijab consists of modest behavior in lowering the gaze, guarding the private parts, and avoiding showing off, and of modest dress. The modest dress includes a headscarf and must cover all of the body except the face and the hands. Outdoors and in open public places, a long coat (jilbab) should be worn in addition to the modest dress commanded by Surah an-Nur ayah 31. Each of these obligations is clearly set out in the Quran and has been explained by the Prophet (sAas).
My challenge to you
To me, the obligations of hijab are clear, explicit, and detailed when I look at both the Quran and the Sunna. There is no question in my mind; I am convinced that Allah SWT has indeed commanded hijab. Inshallah, I hope that after you have studied the dalils I have presented, you agree with me on this. Frankly, I don’t see any other interpretation.
If we are agreed that the Quran and the Sunna do command hijab, then the real question is: how important is it to you to follow what Allah SWT has commanded in the Quran and Sunna?
It’s your choice. Is it important for you to obey Allah SWT? Do you think you should submit your will to His? Do you believe that He knows what is best for you? Do you think that if you dislike what He has commanded, you should be the one to change, not Him? Are you willing to set aside your dislike and to try to seek the wisdom in what He has commanded? Are you motivated to try to surrender to Him even though it may be difficult for you? Is the promise of Jannah worth going through some hardship now?
Please consider each of these questions. If you are sincere in your commitment to Allah SWT, and in your choice of Islam as a religion, don’t you think you should give hijab a try?
Afterword: If you’re coming to think that hijab is part of the way that you want to serve Allah SWT, but you’re not sure how to get there from here, please read my Tips for Beginning to Wear Hijab. Inshallah, it may help you find your way. http://www.muhajabah.com/whyhijab.htm
hope this will help you to understand what is hijab.inshaAllah. don’t take it in any negative way …i’m not forcing you to wear hijab nor i’m saying that hijabis are better than hijabless.
sorry... my question was meant to be about all of the above... not just that particular number! but thanks for taking the time to post all this great info... may Allah reward you greatly in this life and the next :)
sorry... my question was meant to be about all of the above... not just that particular number! but thanks for taking the time to post all this great info... may Allah reward you greatly in this life and the next :)
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.
hareem, but don't you understand that its dangerous to post something, even if its partially (no matter how minutely partially) correct, and the rest is bullcrap and then point to it and say "hey this is Islam". There are people that have no background in Islam and would read this and think that these are true Islamic beliefs!
Its not FAIR to women to leave this kind of stuff up. This thread should be locked and removed. Its DISGUSTING.
You really are something! Either u need glasses or you have quite an imagination,... i posted this and by no means did i declare this to be a word of God... rather I questioned whether it was true, and u started pms-ing over it... grow up woman, or at least do us all a favor and go see a doctor about ur never-ending pms or menopause... cuz whatever it is, it definitely aint cute!
hareem, but don't you understand that its dangerous to post something, even if its partially (no matter how minutely partially) correct, and the rest is bullcrap and then point to it and say "hey this is Islam". There are people that have no background in Islam and would read this and think that these are true Islamic beliefs!
Its not FAIR to women to leave this kind of stuff up. This thread should be locked and removed. Its DISGUSTING.
The number of men in hell should be “at least” twice that of women