Maryam Amir – Are Women Mentioned in the Quran
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The title of the book of the Prophet's words is a depiction of the church's actions, and the title is meant to be a depiction of the church's actions. The segment discusses the importance of affirmations and connecting to the Prophet's words in the Bible, as well as the story of a woman reciting the Prophet's words and how it affected her life. The speakers also discuss the history of women reciting the Prophet's words and the importance of proper recording and filming practices. They emphasize the need for women to make clear and concrete decisions and not to give the wrong information.
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Things, because the woman companions went to the Mothers of
the Believers, and the Mothers of the Believers have a set of verses
that explicitly talk about them, that are addressed to them.
And so other women, who are not the mothers, they came to the
Mothers of the Believers, and they said, it's not fair that you will
have verses just for you and that we don't have verses that are for
us.
And so Allah revealed this verse,
and then ash, who the commentator of the Quran, talks about the fact
that this ayah
explicitly said Muslim believing. And the believing woman had
mentioned all these characteristics, that they are
patient, that they are obedient to all those part of Thailand that
they given supple, they're charitable, that they protect
their chastity, all of these beautiful qualities.
But are there not other persons of the Quran that talk about
believers? Oh believers fast, oh believers given charity? Aren't
women part of the believers? So in Ashur mentions that the Quran was
already poor men and women, but they are used to a society in
which women are not always included.
And also in the time period, previously to the Jewish nation,
the default was that complaints were for men, and there were some
things mentioned for women.
So the Quran as a whole is changing the narrative that some
people might be used to, that the entire book is for all of you, and
it's an affirmation that even though the rest of the book is for
you, and that women are included in everything too that you also
explicitly mentioned
Allah revealed Quran, when women had questions, like when a woman
came to the Prophet sallallahu, alas, and she was in so much
emotional distress because of a circumstance that happened with
her husband, and she's whispering to the Prophet saw them, and what
did he respond?
You recited with me.
America, the Allah here is her that she's coming
and arguing what the Prophet says. I'm asking, hurting, complaining,
hopeful. And the ALLAH is blessed here and will see that he is all
hearing and he's all watchful. He's always able to see. He knows
what you are going through.
We have Allah recording the voices of women over and over in the
Quran in so many instances.
And then one of the most painful when Asia alayhi salam,
when she was in the midst of martyrdom,
And what is the joy that she makes? Tell me,
Jeanette
that she is asking
Allah to bless me with having a home next to you. Ya, Allah.
Allah recorded these voices of women over and over. He resent me.
He sent revelation in response to a woman's voices who have
questions, and he affirmed a woman's decisions and their
intellect. Like when the queen of Sabbath, Queen Sabba, when she's
talking to their her advisors, there's a point of verse where
she's saying something and then she says,
alike,
and that is what they do, but she just explained what they do. So
would it make sense for me to be like Did you know sister that they
do this through this? That's what they do. It is an affirmation. It
is an an emphasis, but some of the scholars have to use to see him
saying, Allah was affirming her intellect, that he is affirming
her words himself.
The Quran
has preserved the woman's voices throughout centuries, and that
history of connecting to the Quran is something that we see in the
role of the woman companions, Roly, Allah. So for example, one
time the Prophet sawallah Ali, he was Saddam has mentioned in Ahmed
he was walking past the house, a house, and there's a woman who is
residing inside, and her voice carried out because the homes who
back then ordered up were not to these insulated homes.
And so she.
Says,
has the news come to you? Who is you? The
Prophet salallahu, Salah. So the Prophet salallahu sank response,
and he's very emotional, and he says, it's come to me. It's come
to me. We have Asmaa of blood. And
and she would stand and recite over and over and over one ayah.
She would just keep reciting the Allah has given us such a blessing
that he's
protected us
from the five he's protected us from, from the punishment. And she
would recite, recite this verse one time, and then recite it
another time and recite it a different way another time.
We have a narration of the Prophet. So I said, I'm saying,
let's go visit the martyr. Who's the martyr? She's alive. So why is
she a martyr?
They would go visit the mark.
Now,
this was
this
was her neighbor,
and he would hear the Quran being reciting through the walls.
And one day he didn't hear her recitation,
so he went to check on her,
and he thought she had been murdered,
the martyr.
The Prophet saw them. We saw her, the murder, and she became a
murderer.
We
and when the Prophet saw them, passed away, Allah Abu Asmaa.
Allah Abu Asmaa said, let's go visit Oba from Prophet saw you,
said to her,
and when they went to visit her, she saw that, she started to cry.
And they said to her, don't you know that what is with Allah's is
better for the Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam.
Then she responded, I'm not crying because I don't know that what is
with Allah. I'm
crying because revelation has been cut off.
And then they all needed to cry
on Hisham bin Sahabi that she had different narrations of how she
memorized Surah Kahf that she would hear the Prophet so recite
it and Salah sum and she would pray behind him Salaam. And so she
memorized it, because she if he heard it, she heard it so much
from Salah AB that she would sit at the servant of Juha and hear
the whole spell the Prophet saw them recited. And so she says
different narrations, but one of them is so cute. She says, I took
suraq from the mouth of the prophet Sallallahu, alayhi wa
sallam. These are people who interacted with the Quran, and
they left the legacy of women interacting with the Quran.
Women's voices have been written by the angels who are roaming the
earth,
names, most of whom we don't have recorded, but we do have some of
them.
We have the Naresh inamasa, who mentions how emotionally affected
he was by hearing a body of recitation. We have and 444 Hijra
in the city of Elmira in Spain, there was a famed Aria. Her name
was reima, and she was known to be a scholar of the Quran. She got
her multiple Kira atijaza from a scholar of the Quran of their
city, and she was a famed scholar of their city of the Quran.
And we have Subhanallah, the Ottoman Empire in the time of
alibasha, his court appointed reciter was Sheikha of Muhammad,
and when she passed away, she was buried next to
imaday.
We have the Quran radio of Cairo. Anyone, if you're from Egypt or
have visited Egypt, radio Quran,
the channel of the Quran is huge in Cairo, and in the early 1900s
there were women that were Quran reciters on that channel. And I
want you to think about something very fascinating. Who would you
say is the most famous Quran reciter of all history? Tony
number one. May Allah raise his ranks. Salah Tula. Do you ever
think about how much reward he's receiving? Do you ever just think
they're like, completely astounding, like, how, like,
billions of people have probably memorized the word ad or inshallah
will through this one person's voice, and Allah chose for this
person to be born at a time when they were just having the tools
available to be able to record. So if Uncle wasset has a specific
style, you have style, right? Uncle wasn't has a style. It's
abdulwass style. But if you listen to the woman on the radio from the
1920s 1930s which you can listen to on audio, the woman on Amazon's
app, it is a free app. You can download it on Google Play or App.
Towards Mashallah. We have 5 million recitations being played
globally. And thank you all to for any of you who listen to it, for
the amazing team mashallah, Yasmin and her daughters, who are here
Masha Allah will help Masha
Allah, may Allah love us, all of them,
but these, masha Allah, these women, if you listen 1920s we have
a recitation from 1910 Her style is Abdul Basit
in the 1920s 1930s abdulwasid was about 10 years old.
So these women are adults who are reciting before he is a full
reciter. So is it Abdul Basit style,
or is it the style of women that abdulwasih
learned from?
And abdulwasi, I pray he receives every May Allah bless him and
honor us with me, like him, every single reward that has ever, ever
come across in words, have you? But how many women was he taught
by, affected by whether it was his own mother or any family
member or Quran teacher, even on the radio, or at any point, how
many women are also getting the reward of being his teacher?
How many of you are getting the reward in troubled of the people
that you are teaching because of your adab of Quran with your
children, because of your Abu, as with your neighbors, most of us
will never even remember to we're not going to give them a bus in
trouble. We all be having a But realistically, I should have said
bus right after. I mean, I mean, I mean
and, and
the angels record you anyway,
even if no one else remembers, there are angels that are roaming
the earth looking for you specifically as you recite in your
womb. They do
nothing but look for you, and they can't do nothing but what Allah
has ordered them to do. So there are angels that have been ordered
to do nothing above the earth and look for you as you recite the
Quran in your room. And when they come, they bring with them
blessings that Allah has written, rahma, mercy, protection and the
answering of your alas. Allah talks
about, in the Quran, or Hadid that we can read all about the
interaction of the angels inte, because the angel for order
something, orders to do nothing but pray for us.
These women are women throughout history
who have ensured that, whether or not they have direct access to
recitation, that they maintain its love
for the next generation.
Abdul Masin, there was a reciter in this time period. Her name was
majr, and she was from South Africa. In 1962
she was going for a hedge, and she was going on a ship, and every
single city that they stopped at on the port, people would come and
say, Where is the hasida on the boat
when he when she reached Cairo abus, invited her into his home,
and he listened to her recitation and tested her. She would teach in
the morning until the afternoon for women, and in the afternoon
until the evening for men.
We have the stories of those like Sheikha Nafisa, who said she's had
60 years memorizing and renewing the Quran, and she knows it better
than her name.
We have Shaykh al inside
Malinois. She just passed away in the 1990s we all spent with how we
leave these with her and my teacher, Sheik Fula, Sheik mohila,
may Allah, Shaykh Fula and all of our teachers may always want to
raise their wings. Sheik mohem help me see that, obviously we
know the Quran is for men and women, do we not? Obviously we
know that, of course, the Quran is for men and women, of course,
but Sheik mohem helped me see that the Quran shapes our narrative as
women.
It responds to our questions as women. It helps us see who we are
as we navigate the world as women. At one time, Sheik had got so
angry at me when I spoke about the Quran spaces, particularly in a
way that meant that maybe I didn't have as much access. And he
pointed to Shaykh al sad, because we used to keep an article in the
classroom of her story. And he pointed to her, and he said about
her, this is Shaykh al sad. Men and women would travel from
Palestine May Allah give Philistine victory and liberate
from a state in our lifetimes and make youth a story, and from Saudi
Arabia
and from Kuwait and from all these different places, and they would
come just to get her pizza number because she had the shortest
Senate in the world in London. Fiat Abu Asmaa.
This is our history of women.
Your foremothers, our foremothers, our great, great, great
grandmothers with Quran.
And that legacy is one that ashallah, we see all over the
world today, and you see here too, masha Allah. You see the way that
this conference is for Quran. What
we especially see today are the woman of Liza.
We see the woman of Laza, and they are in a tent, and they are
teaching their children and the children of the neighbors, they've
come together to make more animals in refugee tents.
I saw a clip of a young child sitting with her mother, and she
was she was she was she used to speak. She no longer can speak
because of the trauma. She hasn't been able to speak a word. Her
mother learned sign language. She is speaking in sign language with
her and teaching her the Quran sign language.
We have women who are standing, and they are standing and they're
staring at the camera, and as they're staring at the camera,
they are reciting an ayah,
talking about the Shuhada, talking about their own fathers, emulating
us, first,
people who live the Quran. Because maybe you've also seen children,
literally children, getting their heads stitched a wound with no
anesthesia, and the way that they are getting through it is by
reciting the Quran.
There's a difference between someone who says, Yeah, I want to
know is the Quran, and someone who lives it.
Of course, is amazing. We should all aim for that. But is it
affecting our passions to
is the recitation? Is the memorization making us harsher,
angry, frustrated,
or is it making us someone that people look at and they say,
there's something about you that makes me be number one,
and you don't need to have a whole Quran memorized for that, yet,
you can be that with one ayah,
and then slowly you can get inshallah to the whole whole
revelation inshallah. But it's okay if it takes you 70 years, as
long as you're on a journey for 70 years inshallah. And imagine the
honor of being able to say, imagine the honor being able to
stay I've spent 70 years memorizing the Quran.
I've spent 70 years walking with the Quran, sitting with the Quran,
with my force, because it's a Quran.
It took me seven years to memorize the Quran,
and the review is a lifetime. I am not Arab. So I'm not an Arabic
speaker. I learned Arabic later. I used the translation to help
myself memorize them, or since I didn't understand, I never met
someone who said it took them seven years before I met people
who said it took them one or it took them two, and I felt like I
am so behind.
I but I did. While I was doing a lot of things at once, I couldn't
drop everything and just focus on memorization. And for me, knowing
that it's okay, that it takes time, as long as you're working
slowly, to understand it, to live it, to live it, to live it, to
live it, to understand it and live it and memorize it and review it,
that it's a lifetime goal, that your voice is recorded even when
you are struggling. But Asana, via happy love
said about tiju, you should have seen as I was sitting next to you,
mashaAllah, and happy to sabia, mashaAllah, and she's talked
about, isn't it hard? And all three of us are like
so
cuz it doesn't matter if we've been doing this for 20 years, we
still have mistakes. We saw me on stage. You all had to help me.
It's a process. Sometimes I can do it in my room by myself. Here,
it's a process. But my commitment and show my friend committed, I
pray the Allah will accept the commitment. Why'd I say that? I
should have told you, if you're committed, the Lord will accept
your
commitment. But also, when it comes to women's voices, there is
a question about recitation and menstruation, so I want to write
down for you very quickly what the scholars have said if you are in
Mensis and you want to recite,
there are, like most issues of film, scholars who differ on the
evidences. There are some scholars and make the widespread opinion.
The widespread opinion means the majority of the medaki Follow that
it is not permissible for a woman to recite demonstration. This is
the Hanafis, the shadhiris, the hanbalis. Now, meth,
which means scholars within the meth may hold a different
position, like some scholars, may hold a different position than the
general Mecca. However, they say what you can't do are verses that
are dua so for example, when you're sitting in the car, what do
you say when you sit in the car? What.
So that's a DUA, but it's also a verse in the Quran. So because
it's a verse in the Quran, if your intention is I want to recite the
Quran. The scholars of these men I have seen that's not permissible.
But if your intention is going to make the CARA the scholars of this
position take it as permissible. Does that make sense? Then there's
the other scholars of the other position. So the other position,
there are a number of scholars, but the general I'll just give you
some names that maybe you've heard of, buchari, Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn
hiltayam al Danni, Ibn Hazan al tamari. And there
are more. Those are more. Those are probably some of the ones
you're most familiar with. What are their evidences? So those who
say that it's not permissible, there's no verse in the Quran that
debunks anything related to this issue. So there's they. They base
it on Hadith. So the first and main evidence, which is a sound
narration, is that I show you what I mentioned. The Prophet saw them
would recite the Quran in her lap, and then down in her lap when she
was immensis.
So scholars like imadaki, for example, the way that he explains
this is unless it was not normal for her to typically recite her
ad, and she's explaining the situation as a exception to the
rule. It doesn't make sense for her to have mentioned it in the
first place. Does that make sense? So they are facing their
understanding of it not being permissible on an inference that I
should only have would have not made that statement in the first
place, had it not been evicted. Does that make sense? Number two,
by the way, this is the speediest of class on this issue, because
you can easily actually detect so please feel free to study it in
much more detail, just giving you a summary. The second proof is
that there are a number of different narrations that talk
about the person who is in Geneva and a woman who is in Memphis, not
presiding doctor, dear car. These are Hadith, and they are
statements of righteous people or very companions. However, there is
discrepancy on the authenticity of basically all of them, Ibn
Taymiyyah, Ibn Hazan, most of them say there is no authentic
narration that actually addresses the in this way. But scholars who
form the majority say there are so many, like weaker narrations that
together they they form the ruling. Does that make sense?
Okay. The third thing is the Yes. The yes means that scholars look
at one circumstance and then they say, Okay, if in this
circumstance, this is the rule, then in a similar circumstance,
this is the same rule. Does that make sense? So they say that if a
person is in the state of Geneva, the only reason I'm not explaining
is because of the age group here. So I see a lot of younger people,
so please look it up if you are not sure what I mean. But Geneva
has rulings of no recitation according to the majority. So they
say, if a person is in Geneva and you can't recite, it's major
ritual impurity, which means you need to do what the abusal, which
is a shower. So they say, if major ritual impurity is recitation, is
Geneva, or you can't recite, then a woman in Memphis is in a state
of nature with racial recitation of it, therefore she cannot recite
however, Imam Al karafi says that's not a fair comparison,
because you can just what you chose to get into that
circumstance. And too, you can take a shower and get out. But for
a woman, it's completely out of your control. It can last up to 15
days if you do not follow the Hanina cup. And what do you do for
15 every single month? For half a month, for half a month, you're
not going to recite the Quran, but if you're a Quran student, what if
you're trying to teach your children? What if you're a poor ed
teacher? There's all these circumstances where that makes the
Quran so difficult to access. And so the scholars who are in the and
these are the main, the main evidences for the position that
says it's not permissible, the scholars would say it is
permissible. They base it on one that the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam would always recite the Quran. Would encourage recitation
of the Quran, and then the Quran said,
So recite is easy for
you. So that means it's a command to recite in general, and you
would not go against a command unless you have explicit evidence
in other ways. And because they say the evidence of the majority
is not explicit enough, according to this opinion, the default is
your site at all times. Does that make sense? The second proof that
they use is that I shall only find homeland for Hajj, and when she
went from Hajj, what happened?
Yeah, she got her period, and she was crying, and the Prophet saw
the Muslim went to her, and he was comforting her. And he never told
the only thing he mentioned is not to do Koa, but he's Allah said to
do everything else. So the scholars of this position say he
didn't say, don't.
In the Quran and Hajj, you're gonna recite
Quran. You're in the hedge, of course you're gonna recite the
Quran. So had it not been permissible? What is Allah? AJ,
that it's prohibited now signing up because a lot of women take
this narration and think when you're in hajj, you don't have to
go out so very quickly, I'm going to and once I can tell you the
ruling of what to do with your midst of Hajj, basically imitate
Mia has a ruling. He's not the head that he met up, but he and
his ruling in the circumstance. Because in his time there was a
caravan who would go for hedge altogether. You know, you're going
from Syria, you go from Lebanon, going from Yemen, you go to all
these places. You go to the hedge caravan. It would take months to
get there, and then you're there, and you have a caravan. You go
back in his time period there were the ruler would give money to
ensure there were hedge stations to meet the project. So let's say
there's a caravan here. They leave from Mecca, and then they get to
here. There's a group here. They refill their water, they get food.
They keep going. Okay, then they go here, another hedge caravan.
The state is paying for these Caribbeans in imitabious time, the
state changed and withdrew that money, so these caravans run away.
What happened now? They have to go from Mecca for months and months
on end to wherever they need to go. Bandits realize there's not
going to be groups of people all over the place to protect them,
which means what they can raise the caravans. So they started
coming, and they were killing people and stealing all their
property. So women, who used to stay in HEMT for a long time so
that they can finish their period and then finish everything they
need to do, no longer able to do that without threatening their
life or their property. And so it's that none of the scholars
before me had the circumstance. Because people used to just stay
until everyone was done, and then they would go. So if the TV's
position is that if a woman goes for Hajj and she knows she's not
going to finish while she's there, let's say you're going to last for
seven days around the America for three days or no, you're not going
to finish. So what do you do? You actually go ahead and you make
Hajj, or make Umrah. Let me just say Umrah, because Hajj is a
little bit different with ruling. Let me just say Omar, because most
of us have the circumstance in Umrah. So if you know you're going
to vote for Umrah, so what do you do? You make Umrah even exactly
the same, but you don't bring the two of my friends after the coma,
I got a message from my sister in MA like two weeks ago And
subhanAllah, I've been so overwhelmed, I don't check my
Instagram messages. I almost never know. I just happened to open
Instagram and see this message. She said, I'm in Mecca. I wasn't a
from I got my period. I know I'm no longer about allowed to make
amrad, so I got out of the ham. And I'm wondering, can I just make
johas to the to the
masjid?
This may be so angry you're not abuham. You're in the hellham who
taught her and all of us
that we don't know what to do. So the point is Ibn Taymiyyah, he
says to just make Umrah, as if you would just make Umrah. Just don't
do the twos of the Salah. However, this is Ibn Taymiyyah opinion. He
also says there's no sacrifice to give. The Hanafis have the same
opinion. But the Hanafi say you need to give a sacrifice, because
they can, excuse me, they can pull off. Is not permissible when
you're on your period, and therefore you get a sacrifice to
make up for having a co op. Now, if you're going to be in Mecca and
you're going to finish, just wait and finish, and then they don't
know these are for circumstances which you wouldn't the reason I
wanted to tell you that is because when I explained this heavy I
actually had someone say that they're going from Mecca to Mecca.
They had attended a lecture where you mentioned and then they know
they don't need to make Hawa for in their mixes. And I don't want
that confusion here. So please, if you're going Inshallah, seek
clarification, advice from the Shah or Shaykh where you go
Inshallah, put uninfected who messages me and says, I refer to
electro optimist faithful. So that's imitating his position.
Now, back to the recitation issue. Back to the recitation issue. This
position is that the public soil didn't tell Aisha will be Allah,
not to make not to recite from that therefore it's permissible to
reset Quran. Does that difference make sense? Yes, okay, that is for
recitation that's different from touching the Muslim, touching the
must have the difference of opinion on that issue is derived
from an ayah of the Quran, and he the same Hadith that I had, but as
that topic we're covering right now, I just wanted to let you know
how scholars look at one piece of evidence and then they have so
many different understandings. So when we look at women's voices in
Quran, we see women who don't recite while they're on them.
Period, for centuries, we've had women who don't recite because
they follow the majority of the the Nevada Zucman and in trouble,
and they are rewarded for every second they don't recite. And even
if the angels are not commanded to look for women who don't recite,
typically, they would be reciting if they could. So if Bill Diane
mentioned that the prophets of I said them talks about a person who
is sick.
Are traveling, and when they are sick or they are traveling, the
rewards of what they used to do continue. And so Insha Allah, you
still get the reward if you typically recite and then you stop
for 10 to 15 days, you're still being rewarded because the only
reason you're doing it that's out of your love for Allah. Whether
you follow this opinion or without opinion, you're doing it for the
sake of Allah. You are doing it to get closer to the Quran. Sometimes
keeping us ourselves away from worship is a test because we want
to be there. We want to be doing it. And sometimes in that test is
a form of testi, a form of purification that brings us closer
to Allah in a different way. So for those who follow that opinion,
may Allah raise your wings. And for those who don't and who use
that time to continue to recite, may Allah raise your wings.
Our history is filled with women of
the Quran.
When the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam receive revelation,
recite with me how to command
if
so scary. Who
affirmed this revelation? This revelation is from Allah. AJ is
the first person, a woman who believed
in the Quran hostel with the daughter of Allah,
the first person who was not the khalifa to have this physical copy
of the Mushaf in her interest. This is an Allah of women of
Quran.
And you all inshaAllah, all of you inshaAllah, if you make the
intention, Oh Allah, I don't know what it means exactly, or I have
these goals, you are counted as women of the Quran too. Because
even if you are unable to fulfill those goals, but you make the
attention and you want to do it, Allah will write it for you as if
you did, because He loves you, that much, Allah tells us. And the
end of Surah a part of the end of Surah that he has
chosen you, Allah has chosen you right now to be right here in this
time period before a reason like the woman of a from all over the
world who are Muslims in converts typically abled and disabled, the
Quran for every single one of us, and Allah subhanahu wa revealed it
ensured that women of all different realities were included
in that revelation.