Hosai Mojaddidi – Does Islamic Law Oppress Women

How many of you have or have been led to believe that Muslim women

do not have choice when it comes to marriage and divorce? Right?

So again, this is something that in Dallas, I struggle with reading

more and more, but there's a story that I can share with. One of the

companions of the Prophet Muhammad has been was it been skipping son,

so the son of having the best, he relates that once a young girl,

she came to me,

and she had just been married off forcibly by her father, and she

was very upset. So she came to complain to him. Now, in that

moment, the problem in the marriage ceremony had already

happened. So he paused. And he, again, this is important to

reflect on what how he engaged her, he asked her now that this is

where you have a choice, do you wish to stay in this marriage? Or

do you wish to leave the marriage? Her response? was, what do you

think, brought some Yes. She said, I want to bring me out of this.

She complained right? Now many people make sure to say

she, she actually said, I do wish to say, the reason I spoke up is

so that I let other women know that no man has the right to be

forced into a marriage. So this story to me was really profound,

because not only is she exercising her

choice, right in the matter, but she's also clearly showing that

she is looking out for other women. And so she made a really

responsible decision to speak out but she could have just, you know,

kept quiet and gotten to the stage without anybody ever knowing that

she's had a call with it. So she wanted to make a clear point. And

in fact that that was related

to many that dispel this myth that some women cannot marry or divorce

and that's why like I said,