Maryam Amir – As a woman you are worthy to Allah

Now Christianity today is very different in different practices,

different denominations. We love our brothers and sisters who are

Christian. This is all respect to them.

But in that time, I don't I'm not a Christian expert, so I can't

tell you about their beliefs in detail right now. I'm just going

to tell you about what I've studied, which is the impact of

colonialism on Muslim thought.

When

colonists colonized specifically from their Britain, came into

Muslim majority lands, they brought with them their ideas of

women, and one of those issues were about periods, because they

saw it as the curse of Eve.

The Curse of Eve is this understanding which is blasphemous

for us as Muslims, that * that Eve tempted Adam to eat from the

tree, that she seduced him, and because of that,

women today have to suffer through childbirth and through

menstruation. The church at that time would not allow women to take

medication if they were in pain from cramps, because they had to

feel the punishment of Eve

this understanding when we tell our daughters that, or our sisters

that, when I went to Hajj, an older woman came to me and she

told me that she got her period, and the woman all around her in

the tent told her, what did you do in hajj, that Allah is punishing

you.

Another sister messaged me, and she said that she was a young

woman who went for Allah, and the people in her group told her,

Allah invited you, but he doesn't want you here.

This understanding does not come from our sources. And when we look

at women in Islam, and we say, women in Islam are honored, women

in Islam are empowered, and then we don't feel that empowerment. I

want you to know that, yes, that comes from culture, and yes, that

comes from perhaps certain opinions practiced in a way that

they shouldn't be practiced in a particular time period. And yes,

that might also come from our armed insecurities, but that does

not come from Islam. Allah has honored your voice. He has chosen

you to be a woman

Allah, and he has chosen you to be a woman specifically in this time

period, in this state, in this country, for a reason, your voice

is so necessary, which you can download for free on Google Play

and Apple Stores. It's a woman Quran reciters app, which we

developed Alhamdulillah and we released in Ramadan this year.

Inshallah next year, we're doing a second release where you can come

and recite with Ariat inshaAllah. But we have women Quran reciters

from all over the world, including women who are women with

disabilities, because every single Muslim woman needs to know that

the Quran is for her, and we need to see women like us no matter our

state. It's every single state. Every single Muslim woman matters

in the way that Allah created you. You are perfect in the color, in

the size, in the language, in the ability or disability the

typically able to convert Muslim every single one of us, whatever

we struggle with, Allah knows you. He knows exactly what you are

going through right now and what your future is, and there are

going to be people who make you feel like your voice should not be

spoken. There are going to be people who make you feel like your

status doesn't matter because of your relationship or lack thereof.

All of those things do not matter because the only thing that

matters is how you work and struggle and strive to have your

relationship with Allah. Abu Asmaa, Santa taught us your

actions of right intention. So whatever space you are in,

whatever you're struggling with, please know you are not alone.

Allah's penalties sees you, and he has angels who record you. And

sometimes we're told that, in a really scary way, the angels are

recording everything you do. Yes, they're recording you're good too.

They're recording the moments that you're afraid, but you still do it

anyway.

I've shared this before, and I'd like to end with it that the

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam said that the Mujahid is the one

who struggled against his or her own soul in the obedience of

Allah. Even Hajj explained that that means the person who does

something even when they hate it, but they know Allah loves it, or

the person who doesn't do something even though they want

to, because they know Allah loves it. That doesn't make you a

hypocrite. That makes you a spiritual warrior. You are the

spiritual warriors of Allah on this earth, and many of you

raising or being a mentor to the next generation of spiritual

warriors on this earth, Allah chose you to be a woman right now,

for a reason, may Allah bless every single one of you and raise

your voices to the heavens and dua that he answers. Maybe you don't

see in this life, but maybe in 500 years so.

Someone from your family will be praying for a nameless person they

didn't know because of the effort that you put in. You are worthy to

Allah subhanahu wa