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we're talking about shunning the ways of
jilah and in the farewell sermon the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam spoke
about many different aspects and amongst
them he mentioned the ways of jilah and
from the ways of jilah were that were
rampant it was oppressing the poor and
so many other things and of course
oppressing women and because of that I
wanted to talk today about the
oppression of women and my argument is
that there was only a short period in
human history where women were not
oppressed and then before that they were
oppressed and today until today they're
oppressed and they cannot Escape certain
ideas and ideologies so this is what I
call being trapped by an idea and many
Muslim women today even though Islam
came to really liberate them they're
still trapped by certain ideas or
ideologies
for example until now Muslim woman will
ask you certain questions that they
really shouldn't be asking they'll ask
you things like why is it that a Muslim
man can marry four and a Muslim woman
cannot marry four and this is a question
if you contemplate for four minutes
you'll find the answer it's not a
difficult question it's very clear
why you you can ask the sister is that
what you want for yourself no okay do
you know a bunch of sisters who were
fighting for that look who are you
making this argument for did you
consider this for one minute do you know
what it means to marry four men and cook
for four men and clear for four men and
have children for four men what kind of
an argument is that
yeah and be a you you have one dead beat
husband now I have four masallah men are
barely doing their job anyways and you
want three more jerks like him fantastic
you know something Muslim woman will
come and ask you why is it that men pray
in the front and women pray in the back
they're always angry when they ask you
that
question I want you to introduce me to
this guy who taught you that there's
something wrong with praying in the back
that it's offensive to to pray in the
back for some reason I want to I want to
meet this guy and what's his logic
what's his reasoning why do we accept
this argument that if you're in the
front you're better than the one in the
back yeah maybe in the buses when they
did it in the Americas it was different
yeah the colors are in the back and all
that but this is not the same situation
and you're a Muslim woman you know how
women pray do you cons did you consider
for a minute what would happen if women
prayed in the front and the men prayed
in the back and that would be the only
time Brothers will really fight for the
front row
right like there's no room brother
there's some room just push move over a
little bit yeah everybody IM please make
the suud very
long yeah it's the only time there's did
you consider
that I mean if you consider it for a
moment you'll see that it doesn't make
any sense why was there no male Prophet
ever sent okay so what suppose now there
was a female Prophet sent 15,000 years
ago would that make you a better person
sitting here today would that make you
sit a little bit higher
perhaps okay all the prophets were males
does that mean the brothers now today
are a bit better Believers because all
the prophets are males are brothers are
you sitting any taller because all the
prophets were males it means nothing to
you it means nothing to you but people
are trapped by these ideas and they
can't escape them and so we wanted to do
a quick summary and perhaps we will not
do justice but 20 2,500 years of what
the ideologies that are related to women
went through in these 2,500 years and
what we always want to say is that um
the the radical feminist movement has
made life a battle between the Sexes
life is a battle between men and women
to see you know who will become
Victorious and we always tell sisters
that sisters there is no battle between
men and women there is no conflict
between men and women do you know
why because we already
won see they didn't laugh at that one no
I'm just kidding there is no battle
between the Sexes there is no war there
is no fight you know I said this
recently and a sister said we both win
that still implies there's a challenge
there's some kind of uh competition
there is no competition so let's do an
un well a very brief summary of like
2,000 plus years of ideologies
concerning women you go as far back as
Aristotle
and he in his writings mentioned that
there the the women are mentally meaning
in a way mentally inferior to men that
they are deficient in understanding and
they cannot be trusted this is Aristotle
and other Greek philosophers as well
wrote to that effect so now you add
these ideas that we already have from
the Greek philosophers to when
Christianity appeared and that added all
kinds of other issues on top of that as
well so the early Christians
contemplated the life of Jesus and and
they saw that he never got married so
they concluded that to not get married
is better than to get married and so
they
innovated or celibacy into their
religion and Allah says in the
Quran and the celibacy which they
innovated into the religion Allah did
not ask them of it but they put it into
the religion because they saw Jesus not
getting married so therefore that is the
best thing add that to the idea in
Genesis where the blame name of the fall
of Man if you read the book of Genesis
in the Bible was entirely put on the
woman so the woman is the reason for the
fall of one man the woman is a reason
that man was taken out of paradise that
man ate from the tree and so on and so
forth the Bible puts all the blame on
the woman well in the Quran the blame is
not put put on the woman and it's not
put on thean either Allah
says Yeah so basically Adam disobeyed
his Lord not Eve caused him or the Shan
caused him Adam disobeyed his Lord the
blame was put on him so now we start to
see Jesus being celibate not getting
married as a as a bachelor and with the
writings of Genesis the woman being the
cause of all evil so early Christian
writers began to say that women are the
cause of evil and they are evil and as a
result of that they also began to look
at intimacy as an as an evil and a dirty
thing being intimate with your wife is a
very bad thing and they started to say
that you only do that if you want to
have children only for the sake of
procreation not for the sake of
enjoyment or anything else as an
interesting note until today in America
we have laws that discuss that govern
certain things concerning that these are
laws that are just strange laws that are
in the books obviously they're not uh
enforced or or what have you but it just
shows you the effects of that that
thinking as a result of that you see how
these things snowball now as a result of
this now concluding that intimacy is a
bad thing in a dirty thing they also
concluded that the paradise is spiritual
and not physical that's Paradise is only
on the spirit and not this why because
it doesn't make sense that you can enjoy
something which is bad and dirty there
shouldn't be anything dirty in Paradise
so therefore they had to conclude that
paradise now is spiritual that's why
there's no Intimacy in it and of course
this is a concept that doesn't make
sense to them and even in their in their
movies and their writings and their
books how do they portray Paradise
physical because it doesn't make sense
that it's spiritual how can a spirit
enjoy things every time you take a drink
from the nice drinks of Venna and it
just spills all on the ground again try
to pop a a grape and it just flies the
other way now now you're upset with your
I I'm going to fire these Servants of
mine every time they pour the drink I so
it doesn't even make sense to them that
it would be spiritual but all this as a
result of this spiral this effect yeah
so then what happens then the early
Christians they encountered the Muslims
for the first time and when they first
encountered Muslims they were very
surprised to find that Muslims marry
four by the way sisters if you follow
this this chain of of process of
thoughts here you will see now why the
West has issues with your hijab if you
pay attention so they first came into
contact with the Muslims and they
concluded that these that these Muslims
must be over sexed because a man can
marry four you get 71 or whatever number
of virgins in in paradise and this was
until after 911 this was a very big
problem this was a very big problem for
them and they kept writing about it to
those of you who who were in the states
or North America or maybe even some of
it came down here that you know
constantly they talk about the in the
newspapers and on the television
programs and some imams buckled under
the pressure one speaker said no no
they're not women they're coton flowers
yeah and Allah
says we wed them to Cotton flowers but
what are you going to do with a cotton
flower smell
it what are you going to do with it it's
ridiculous but he buckled Under Pressure
okay so brother fan if it doesn't work
out they're I'm sure
they're cutton flowers around the
city
so so what happens now is they start to
say that these Muslims must be over
sexed that's why it's so casually
mentioned it's not a dirty thing in
Islam they look inah bak and they found
intimacy with the wife mentioned in the
middle of the verses
of worshiping Allah so it's not a bad
thing it's not a dirty thing so then
they concluded that's why these Muslims
are like that and they even some of the
early Christian Christians when they
first encountered the Muslims and they
saw the Muslim women fully covered they
said these Muslim women are fully
covered because if they weren't covered
these wild Savage men would attack them
that's why they're so
covered and then you get all this this
uh Fantastical construct uh where the
the Haram for example and all kinds of
things from Hollywood the Haram is
ridiculous concept basically it's this
woman as you've seen images of the what
the haram's supposed to look like a
woman that is scantily clad but M she's
still
wearing everything else is exposed but
she's wearing she has some kind of don't
don't don't write her off completely
likewise if you remember in those of you
early enough old enough to remember in
the early Hollywood movies they always
portrayed the Arab as
what always this oversexed guy always if
you look at the early movies always has
busted up broken teeth one ey is looking
this way one ey is looking the other way
and the Arab always in all these early
movies ask one question how much how
much even until more recent movies yeah
I don't want to give too many titles and
just so you know this is my field of
study okay it is I studied
Communications we focus on media
production so we study this kind of
stuff right so in the early movies
always the Arab was the guy just crazy
after women in the 80s they had a series
of movies about racing Cannonball Run
the Arab was always a crazy guy wanting
women even until more recent ones
there's a movie with this horrendously
horrible actor uh vanam right and Blood
Sport and you remember there's a guy
with a gutra he looks Cambodian but they
put autra on him and he's this the Arab
guy and he wanted to take the white
women up to his room and everything and
then they had that game where they take
the coin out of his hand again it was
that image of the Arab being crazy like
that then what happens uh so we're we're
looking at the like this is continuing
now and even until like 50 years before
the birth of the Prophet sallallah alhi
wasallam Bishops were gathering in
France to debate whether or not the
woman had a soul yeah then the West
starts to go through a number of things
that that bring them to where we are now
uh one of them being the enlightenment
era and in this this period of time they
went through a number of different like
reexamining a lot of thoughts some of
them being scientific and that's when
they start to say that's the Earth that
revolves around the Sun and not the
other way around some of them being
theological Martin Luther King
protesting against some issues in the
Catholic church and some of them being
social and the social issues dealt with
women and so now for the first time we
start to see some kind of writings even
though still even despite this we see we
see the philosophers like V
Jean jaac rouso which is like a genevan
philosopher and he writes a book named
entitled Emil and this was written about
1757 they say it's written between 1757
to 1761 anywhere in that time period and
in it he writes about they they should
have education for women but it needs to
be according to their lower intellect
and according to what they could
understand and then later on in the
1800s you start to see others like Mary
Wen craft and so on writing about you
know women's rights and so on but then
comes the Industrial Revolution and in
the industrial revolution you have
especially in England a lot of women
entering the workforce and you start to
for the first time hear about demand of
equal pay they're working the same
number of hours as the man so we should
get equal pay you start to see these as
these are just briefly some of the
stepping
stones and then after that the the West
also goes through in the 60s 70s they go
through what is known as the sexual
Revolution so after the sexual
Revolution they they see promiscuity
there's nothing wrong with it all kinds
of of deviant there's nothing wrong with
that so now what happens so when they
were far to the right and the Muslims
were in the middle they looked at the
Muslims and they said you guys are so
far to the left you guys are extreme
then the West after the sexual
Revolution goes so far to the left and
then they look again at the poor Muslims
who are still in the same place and you
guys are so far to the right so now
after the sexual Revolution they're
saying you Muslims you're too uptight
there's no intermingling the women are
covered now sisters you understand why
if a nun is walking in front of someone
and she's dressed like a muslima nobody
says anything then a Jewish woman walks
by and she's dressed again like a
muslima an Orthodox Jewish woman and
nobody says anything and the minute the
Muslim woman walks by they're like she's
oppressed poor thing they're forcing her
to wear that why are you the only one
forced to wear that it goes back to this
this idea here so after the sexual
Revolution they start to tell the
Muslims that you guys are too uptight
you guys are not relaxed enough in your
Society so the Muslims were always in
the same place but they're moving around
right and
left so so now you understand why
there's always this issue with the
Muslim woman wearing hijab and so on and
so forth so now they they they got to
the point they got to this point by
questioning values you question the
writings of Plato Aristotle St Thomas of
aquinus again who's one of those writing
again degrading the woman the arguments
of is a woman a full human being or not
all these issues they got to a point
where they start to question all these
values and all these
ideologies and then they went to another
extreme like in the 90s when they
brought up the issue of gender that
there is actually no difference between
the male and the female it's just all
about upbringing and if they're brought
up the same way they'll be exactly the
same and in Islam we don't have a
problem with differences between men and
women because that's part of being fair
when you're fair you recognize
differences when you're unfair
you try to you you assume that everyone
is exactly the same and should be
treated exactly the same way I'll give
you an example there was um like a mayor
or or some Governor someone in charge in
California and this man he was a pervert
and an
idiot he was you will see why because he
said why is it that a man can go topless
in the beach and the woman can't one
more time he was a pervert and an idiot
now you understand it's very clear right
so I mean you you don't know why you
don't know why you don't see that
they're pH physically different that's
why so in Islam to treat two different
things as equal in every respect is a
form of Injustice imagine in Islam the
woman in her final trimester in
pregnancy still had to fast like
everybody else no excuses you're all
equal yes we're all equal in the sense
that this is a human this is a human
this will be held accountable this one
will be held accountable but to say that
yes you have to fast the man fast you
fast would that be fair it would
wouldn't be fair so to treat different
things as exactly equal is a form of
Injustice that's why we have different
rules and regulations for men and for
women but in the other sense of course
no one would argue that they're
equal so then they got into the extreme
of saying the whole gender issue and
that there's no such thing as sex it's
just basically the gender and how you
you raise the individual this was
another extreme so what's happening is
that the the way women Western women or
women in the west got to the point that
there are today is by challenging these
values and challenging these ideologies
one of the problems is that we know of
course and we all will agree that the
Muslim woman today is not in a good
situation if you consider the Muslim
lands they're not in a good situation
but it has nothing to do with Islam it
has to do with cultures it has to do
with ideologies it has to do with all
kinds of other things that keep women
down not because of the teachings of the
religion but unfortunately many women
who want to quote unquote liberate the
Muslim woman they they they use exactly
the wrong tactic they want to attack the
religion which is exactly the vehicle
that is supposed to get them out of the
situation that they're in this worked
for the West because the values they had
were written by men and humans but our
values were from Allah and his Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam we don't
challenge these values that's the same
vehicle that will get you out of the bad
situation you don't destroy that
vehicle so so with this issue then of
women being liberated are they truly
liberated today and this is one of the
things for example let's just pick hijab
people want to attack hijab and so why
are you wearing hijab you're oppressed
all these arguments and leave the hijab
let's see what happens when you remove
the hijab do you are you liberated when
you remove the hijab and I always quote
this uh this a student at the UCLA
University in in California and she was
a senior a psychology major and she made
an experiment she was a Chinese American
lady who was not a Muslim and she
experimented with hijab maybe some of
you have have read what her her
experiment was she put on hijab and then
she went out and then she wrote this
article and it was really incredible her
insights and the things that she
discovered when putting on hijab so she
says by by covering myself I did not
cover my femininity the only thing I
covered was was my sexuality she said
covering the latter allowed me to
express more the former and the more I
covered my sexuality the more I could be
free and be an individual and be a human
being and this is exactly the problem
today so if hypothetically a woman
enters into a meeting room there's a
meeting and the woman is not dressed
properly let's say she's quote unquote
attractive and she's dressed very very
improperly she walked into a meeting
room what is the first thing the men
will think oh she's very intelligent
masallah this will be a productive
meeting
no they're going to look at her as a
sexual object that's all they're going
to do that's all they'll see so the no
matter what she does no matter how hard
she studies and reads and how eloquent
she is she still is looked at as just a
sexual object the minute she covers that
she will be looked at as an individual
and there were many studies that that
that were done there was a university in
Brussels that did a study on uh the
inversion effect something called the
inversion effect it's basically the
inversion effect
deals with the human being's inability
to recognize faces when they're upside
down and you've probably all seen images
upside down a face upside down and you
have a a a tough time recognizing the
individual now we don't have a problem
as human beings in
recognizing objects that are upside down
you see any object upside down and you
know exactly what the object is but when
you see a face upside down you have to
struggle and sometimes you can't figure
out who the individual is so in the
University of Brussels they made this
study
and they found out that men had a hard
time recognizing faces of other males
upside down but they had no problem
recognizing the faces of women when they
were upside down just like they could
see objects when they were upside down
so they concluded in this study that men
view women as objects men view women as
objects likewise there is another
university university of of Kansas and
they did a similar study and they
actually tested women and they came to
the same conclusion that women saw other
women as objects as well because this
that's what the society trained them
splash of colors on their faces and wear
this and wear that and do all kinds of
things to their appearance so even women
would see other women as objects now in
the University of Michigan in 1989 they
had a similar study this is obviously a
lot older this study was conducted in 37
countries and in these 37 countries they
also found all people throughout these
countries saw women as objects as well
so what if someone says well this proof
this is proof that it's not just the
West who has this issue it is proof
we're using it as an argument to say
hijab when you don't have hijab that's
how men look at the woman because the
woman the man Allah created the man he
he is attracted or he is aroused by
looking so if he sees a woman as an
object no matter what country where in
what religion he's from that's what
she'll be an object and that's why if
you look at um for example let's this in
the United States of America in America
we cannot accept a woman in a high
leadership position if she looks like a
woman if she's effeminate so she has to
look what we call androgynous in the
English language right so the
androgynous woman that's the one that
has short hair that wears these business
suits that doesn't show her emotions and
acts more like a man
right so if you look at Western women in
very high and Powerful positions You'll
Always Find that they have this look
let's start with your iron lady Margaret
Thatcher and because she recently passed
away a lot of you even though you too
young to remember her time you've
probably watched the documentaries about
her life and you've probably noticed
that part where uh first in the
beginning in her political career she
was very effeminate and her voice was
very high pitched any of you remember
that I mean from the
documentary yeah so her voice was very
high pitched right and then her advisers
told her to make her voice deeper yeah
and that's why she after if you listen
to her videos she's always like I met
with the president of Pakistan and it's
like deeper then then she retires from
politics and her voice is high again
because now I don't have to do this for
men anymore so the men couldn't accept
her when she had this High feminine
voice so now she's got short hair she's
wearing these business suits walking
around like this deep voice because a
man can't accept a woman in the west if
he sees her beautiful if she sees that
she's effeminate because that's for him
that's a sexual object I'm not going to
take orders from a sexual object I need
you to look more like me like a man and
let's go throughout through a lot of the
western women leaders for example we had
cond no we had what's that um Madeline
Albright for example again short hair
frown that business suit uh we had one
that all the comedians were constantly
making fun of her as being a man during
the Clinton era as well uh who was
it no uh Clinton
uh any no Clinton era and so basically
Janet Reno thank you very much and Janet
Reno was always a man for the comedians
that she had short hair again she came
in like a man like that then you have
Hillary Clinton and again short hair
these business suit when she was running
against Obama in the in the presidential
elections you would read what they write
about her her her their critiques of her
is that she was stoic meaning she did
not show emotion she was uh very like
very drunk why didn't cry all these not
very woman-like then one day she choked
a little bit as she was speaking and
actually think she was faking it didn't
even look real but she pretended to
choke just to show that she has some
feelings and guess what immediately the
next day do we really want a woman who
cannot control herself for so like as
they say in English damned if you do and
damned if you don't so what do you want
from this lady in the end then we also
had U condalisa rice but she was a real
man of course
so she
was um so so what's happening then was
that we start to see that people are not
able to accept the woman in a place in a
leadership position because for in a lot
of countries now not just picking on the
west anymore for in a lot of countries
the woman is just a sexual object and
you can't take orders from a sexual
object so then even though women think
they've been liberated they are still
trapped and they're still stuck they
still have these problems how can you
escape that and what we argue to people
is that the escape and the way out of
that is through Islam and for Muslim
women it's through Islam that's the only
way you will win over all these millions
and millions of oppressive
men yeah that's the only way to use
Islam but like I said some women they
start to attack Islam they start to
attack thei of the Prophet wasallam they
even start to question the meanings of
the aat of the Quran there was a a woman
in the United States a revert who
doesn't speak Arabic but she said she's
going to re-evaluate the of
alar they asked how are you going to do
it she said basically I'm going to read
the Hadith then I'm going to think about
it and if it does not agree with the
woman's point of view it's
weak okay so she's gonna okay first of
all like I said she doesn't it's
interesting she doesn't speak Arabic so
she's going to R on the translation of
some man overseas who has paid minimum
wage and she's going to use that to the
side of the Hadith the second thing that
did we have like a vote and the majority
of the world's sisters liked you and
said yes we want you to do this for us
so the problem is they try to
re-evaluate and they try to challenge
some of the known established values of
Islam so if we couldn't agree on what
the prophet Sall wasallam said What on
earth makes you think we can agree on
what some strange sister said and I
always lik in this when you want to
attack Islam which is the vehicle that
will save you to having uh to make this
long journey across the desert and you
only have your camel and then after two
days throughout into the journey you
stop you Slaughter and you eat your
camel you basically just killed the
vehicle that's supposed to get you
across so how you expect to make this
and we've seen some crazy things written
by by by some people claiming this is
how to get their their freedom or to get
their rights they think that their fight
is with Islam Islam never ever oppressed
women your fight is not with Islam your
fight is with all these cultures it's
with all these men it's with all these
whatever these whoever it is wherever
they are but it's not Islam and people
sometimes don't know like where the
problem is and they don't know how to
pick their battles so we've like there
was one and she was saying that uh she
was challenging the authentic Hadith and
she said that there are certain Hadith
of the Prophet Sall alh wasallam inkari
that are misogynistic
and you know what misogyny is it's
hating women and hating girls so she
said the ofam are misogynistic and
therefore they need to be thrown away
and others in their in their way of
understanding this is they attack the
narrations of the Hadith every time I'm
going down a road and there's a Hadith
in the middle of the road let me just
chop it down that's the most
unintellectual way of of dealing with an
issue Hadith says this oh that's the
only thing standing in my way now this
Hadith it's weak to the point where and
this is very recently where we were
reading this we're at a conference and
someone presented this paper at the
conference saying that the uh that some
of the Hadith have narrators from the
companions that were not trustworthy and
you look at the they they say that the
companions are all the companions are
all trustworthy we don't say this
companion was not trustworthy narrator
because these are the people who brought
us the Quran and the Quran was preserved
in the same way as the Sunnah so if we
start to throw doubt on the companions
then it's going to open the door to
attacking the Quran all kinds of other
things so they said that Abu bakra and
narrates a Hadith he said they said Abu
Bakr was untrustworthy and to quote them
that he was also a convicted felon but
is that the situation first of all no
one said he was untrustworthy
abak he was a a companion
and uh and basically what he had seen
was that he he thought he
saw committing fornication or Zena but
what had happened is was married to this
woman but he was married to her in
secret and who forbade getting married
in secret so he couldn't say this my
wife so he kept it to himself so Abu
bakra came with some some of the his
name was and he came with some of the
companions then one of them withdrew
true so now we don't have four witnesses
there are three so he was punished for
that and the Quran says that his his
testimony is not to be accepted and om
would tell
him that make to I will accept your
testimony but uh he didn't want
to like refuse or like recant his
testimony so basically what happened is
that in this issue yes his testimony
would not be accepted in court that
doesn't make him a not reliable narrator
of the Hadith the point is that the
attempt to get women out of a bad
situation is now through attacking Islam
attacking hijab oh hijab is just a
custom of the Arabs okay and and you'll
see this like debates women debating is
it hijab or or what is the other thing
convertible
whatever there all kinds of hijab right
all kinds of different names for the
convertible is the one that comes up and
down yeah so a lot of times it's up you
know then there's hijab we call sample
that's the where's a proper hijab but
there's a hair sample sticking
out and then there's useless hijab
that's when the woman covers every
little bit of hair and she's wearing
very very tight
clothing so who on Earth told you that
the hair strand is not as dangerous as
body parts being finally defined anyways
and these things make especially Muslim
sisters dressed improperly like this
this in that kind of hijab they make
life difficult for people like you know
brother faran and
others you will regret ever giving me
your name and telling me to make this
joke anyways so so the problem then so
these are issues of jahia the issues now
that op oppress women today they're
issues of jahia they're not issues
dealing with Islam all the the whatever
it is you just make your list I don't
even know the list you honor killings
and how you know the do is giving to the
man you guys got it good
man this recently I was in Europe and
this lady came to me and she said this
guy um this doctor we're engaged and
he's demanding that my father buys him a
house and Furniture excuse me like what
he buy he's a doctor and your father has
to buy him a house like yeah that's how
we do it I'm like I need to get married
from this type of the world anyways the
point
is it's the these ideologies have
nothing nothing to do with Islam that's
your fight and of course this is our
fight too right brothers and and we're
okay with that we're okay with women
being in a bad situation today and this
is one of the problems that people just
want from the religion what will make
them comfortable and they don't want
from the religion what will take from
them and make other people
comfortable um recently we were sharing
some male chauvinist jokes with
u Bas and said something very
interesting he said we don't have such
extreme extremely mean jokes in in the
Muslim lands about women like these were
very I'm not even going to repeat them
like very very mean jokes yeah and it's
interesting we don't I can speak for the
Arab world at least in the Arab world we
don't have such incredibly cruel and
mean jokes and that reflects something
so for the women who are in the west
they're still oppressed they're still
Shackled they cannot break free from
being objects and objectified because
that's how they are in the magazines in
the newspapers on television every
commercial even if it has nothing to do
with a woman you put a woman on it so
there's they can never Escape that it's
impossible for them to escape that and
these women who are Shackled are coming
to you who are semi- liberated because
Islam liberates you from that side and
then your culture and your society and
your community puts you down from
Another Side so you're still semi that's
why I argued in the beginning that
there's only a brief period of time
around the time of the prophet and years
after that where women were liberated
and after that it just went downhill
again so these who are Shackled are
coming to you who are semi liberated and
telling you don't be oppressed so the
solution really is in Islam that's our
argument I'll stop here
inshallah very much for being an
attentive audience I would like to say
that if you benefited and enjoyed this
lecture my name is Kamal Al Maki if you
did not find this useful at all and you
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