(1/3) Feminism – from thought to tradition. Feminism today is | Al-Aqeedah
(1/3) Feminism – from thought to tradition.
Feminism today is no longer a thought. It has verily become a tradition in many of the societies, and this is the most dangerous stage in the evolvement of thoughts and ideas. This means that it is no longer something merely having influence upon the pundits, rather it has become a manner of living in most of the Arab and Islamic societies (not to mention the western world).
And from the ideas of feminism that have succeeded in infiltrating and changing from being an idea to being a tradition is:
The first: What is understood from being a successful woman.
And with this is meant a woman that has no need for a man. And this understanding has succeeded in circulating and spreading among the people through movies in the fifties (and onwards). Until it became established in the heart of the society that the woman who is successful is a woman that works, and not a housewife, because this poor women is oppressed. So this became adopted by the general public, to such an extent that the housewife feels shy to declare herself as being a housewife. As if she is saying: “Unfortunately, I am a housewife.”
The second: The work of the woman.
And this is the backbone of the ideology of feminism, which has its roots in the fact that the woman is equal to the man. Not only in the Islamic Judgments as it is stated in the hadīth. Rather she is his equal in roles, tasks, responsibilities, obligations and status. And based upon this, then her not going out to work is considered unemployment, humiliation, a waste of time and effort, and prohibiting the society from half of its manpower.
And this is an understanding that the Muslim society did not know (nor acknowledge) before the 20th century. Rufaydah Al-Aslamiyyah (first nurse in the world) has verily become more known than Fātimah bint Muhammad (sallAllāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam). And she became more famous than Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthūm, the two daughters of Muhammad (sallAllāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam). And more famous than Umm Al-Husayn, Ramlah, Umm Hāni, Umm Kulthūm, Fatimah, Ruqayyah, Maymūnah, Zaynab As-Sughrā, Khadījah and Umāmah; and they are all the daughters of ‘Alī (radiAllāhu ‘anhu).
The third: Striving for diplomas.
And this is from the most hidden of ideas of feminism which has occupied the minds and consciousness of the people, until a father belittles all the fitan (pl. fitnah) that his daughter must go through in order to attain the diploma. And he refuses to marry her before she has achieved her diploma. And after that, all of this is wrapped up in the name of (seeking) knowledge, while the diploma has no relation to seeking knowledge. Because seeking Islamic knowledge is not the same as going to school.
The fourth: The marriage of the one below 18 years.
And this is a dangerous understanding. This is spread to such a degree that the reaction of society to the marriage of a girl below the age of 18 years is disapproval and rejection (while they in their legislation allows illegal sexual intercourse from the age of 15 and sometimes younger). So the first words you hear is: “Poor girl. They prohibited her from her childhood.” And perhaps you – O honorable reader – also have this feeling, and you find gloominess in your heart when you hear that a girl of this age marries. And if you find something in your heart from this, then know that this is a result of the influence of feminism.
The fifth: The evilness of the man.
No matter if it is a father or a husband, then the basic principle according to this tradition is, that he wants to chain the woman and have control over her. And it is upon her to fight with him in order to free herself from these chains and achieve victory over this evil capturer. And due to this a father is not even capable of obligating the hijab upon his daughter because he does not want to control her; meaning: he fears to apply this scenario upon her.
