Hosai Mojaddidi – Does Islamic Law Oppress Women
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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,