Maryam Amir – Starting Ramadan on your period

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The speaker discusses the concept of "verbal behavior" during the period, which is related to women not being able to feel included in the community. They argue that women should be rewarded for their actions and connect with their sisters in their emotions to help alleviate the situation. The speaker also mentions the importance of not feeling guilty about participating in a constructive period and not being afraid of women to feel present.

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			Sisters, if you are starting this
month on your period, I tell you
		
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			is that many women in the world
understand what it's like to start
		
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			Ramadan and not be fasting and
praying with everyone else in the
		
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			same way. Unfortunately, there is
a lot of taboo in some communities
		
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			about talking about menstruation.
Lam Islam is very clear, but due
		
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			to the taboo of some cultures,
it's led to a lot of women feeling
		
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			like starting Ramadan on your
period is a form of punishment, or
		
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			it's a form of not being able to
feel as included in the community
		
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			space. In reality, starting your
period in Ramadan is simply what.
		
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			It's simply submission to God that
you are choosing to not
		
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			participate in the Acts you
normally would be participating in
		
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			only because this is your worship
to Allah. Why are we refraining to
		
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			do that? Honor periods, not a
punishment from God? Oh, it's
		
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			simply because this is what Allah
asked us to do, what the Prophet,
		
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			Holy Son, guided us. So in this
time of being in Mensis, honor
		
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			your body. Rest and relax and eat
and drink and take care of
		
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			yourself. Don't feel guilty about
taking care of your body. That's
		
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			literally what you're supposed to
do in this time. And make two
		
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			intentions. The first intention is
it's it's worship in and of
		
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			itself. Every single second of
Ramadan, you are getting rewarded
		
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			in the second even when you're
eating and drinking, you are being
		
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			rewarded for doing so. And number
two, try to connect with the woman
		
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			companions on an emotional level.
Think about what it was like for
		
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			Aisha Radi Allahu Anhu to get her
period as she's going to make Hajj
		
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			with the Prophet sallallahu
sallam. And she was weeping, and
		
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			was the Prophet SAW them's
reaction to comfort her that this
		
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			is something ordained. What was it
like for Sophia radiAllahu anha to
		
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			get her period at the end of Hajj?
What was it like for the woman
		
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			companions to get their periods at
a time where there were no
		
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			products for women to be able to
navigate cleanly existing in
		
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			spaces without being worried about
dripping, and that is a very real
		
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			reality for our sisters in greza.
Think about the woman of grese and
		
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			how they are navigating being on
their periods in tents without any
		
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			type of supplies in a genocide in
Ramadan, and what it's like for
		
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			them. This is our opportunity to
connect with our sisters in ghaza,
		
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			emotionally, our sisters in Sudan,
in the Congo in all parts of the
		
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			world, and how can we use the
privileges that we have to support
		
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			their liberation?