Maryam Amir – Women’s Roles
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The segment discusses the struggles of women in Islam during the '80s and early '90s, as men have been taught to recite the Quran and try to convince them to recite it. The segment also talks about the struggles of women in their twenties and thirties, as men have been taught to recite the Quran and try to convince them to recite it. The segment also touches on the importance of women being represented in Islam and the need for support and understanding.
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Our Ummah has gone through a lot of different times in which we've
seen women's voices in different ways. Knowing that we've had those
differences is helpful for a 19 year old girl who's been told
since she was 13 that she cannot memorize the Quran because the
Imam will not teach woman, and he's the only imam of the masjid
for that 19 year old girl, for the 40 year old woman, who have told
me that when they stopped reciting Quran was when they hit puberty,
and the only person in their Masjid who could teach was the
Imam, and he said, I'm not comfortable teaching woman.
And they were so impacted by that that they started feeling more and
more distant from Islam, and they've told me that now that
they've been hearing women recite the Quran again in their 40s, for
the first time, they're opening the Quran again.
That's a generational reality that's having children, that's
going to 60 and 70 and 80, and maybe having grandchildren and not
opening the Quran or never reciting it out loud in your
private space because you don't know that. As a woman, the Quran
is for you.
And in the Quran, Allah subhanaw taala talks about how women were
present, and he recorded women making specific statements for a
reason,
like, for example, when Allah subhanho wa Taala talks about the
daughters of the Shaykh Kabir, who are the answer to the DUA of Musa
alayhi salam, as he's asking for Allah to send him something,
they come and they meet him, and then she, one of them, goes back
to her father, and she says, What?
Hire him. Scholars of tafsir mentioned Allah didn't have to say
that line. That line is not necessary to understand the story.
Why did Allah spend on time to say it so that women know that they
were included in financial matters.
When the Queen of Sheba is asked about what to do, when she's
asking for advice from her advisors, what to do about
Suleiman, are they his salaams letter? She talks about what muduk
do when they come into the to the to the to the new land, and they
ruin the land. And then there's an ayah right after she speaks, and
it says,
and it could be as if she's saying, and that's what they do.
But scholars of tafsir say that is Allah subhanahu wa affirming her
intelligence by saying, yes, that is what they do. That is exactly
and this woman is depicted as a righteous ruler, that is exactly
what they do.
Allah subhanho wa Taala has recorded the voices of women in
the Quran
for a reason.
Whenever you as a woman may feel like you're not sure of your
status with Allah, or you're confused, or you disagree, and
that's okay. It's okay to disagree,
but when you're questioning that part of yourself as a woman, I've
been asked by a Muslim woman sincerely asking with tears in
their eyes, did Allah create women to be like somewhere between an
animal and a man. Is that our level with Allah? And if that's
what Allah wants, that's fine. That's I accept that, because
that's what was penance Allah wants. But is that
it when we have an eight year old asking that question, and then she
becomes a 28 year old who has internalized that, and then she
potentially raises children with that internalization. Where does
our entire Ummah go? We often talk about the next generation in
Islam, for the next generation, if women are feeling disenfranchised
in this generation,
who are the great grandchildren? Who are they tracing it back to
to save the future of our Ummah, we need to support women right
now,
because whether or not she or you are ever going to be mothers,
because hanala Allah has willed each and every one of us to have a
different role for a reason,
he says, Subhan Hua Taala this verse I end every time with
because I want you to remember he
has chosen you. And
Imam Al Tabari mentions he's chosen you for a quality that he
sees inside of you, even if you don't see it yourself. He created
you to be a woman of this ummah in a time where a woman are
struggling with being woman, in a time where we're being attacked by
every ideology, at a time where everyone else is welcoming you
unto their understanding,
he's invited you to fight.
Now
and right now and honestly forever. Maybe absolutely no one
will know our names,
but
Allah subhanahu wa doesn't forget
and the angels who roamed the earth looking for the people who
come together in his name,
coming together and surrounding you with tranquility and taking
your names up to Allah, don't forget,
and one day we are going to be those women in history.
So the question isn't whether or not your voice matters, and the
question certainly isn't whether or not we are equal to men.
The question is, what are we going to do to make the future
generations of Islam, of Muslims look and say the woman of the past
change the course of history because of their strength in their
belief, and Allah
and you all are deserving of being one of those people sabbatical
from all behind the commission on that, either stuff like.