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in the light of
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from Miss Ki which a couple of programs
back we started she had a number of
questions
remaining uh I guess it's herself and
her family um a question hair dye is it
permissible for people to color their
hair both young and old and what have
you got to say about using black hair
dye not to color gray but for fashion
we've heard that black die is not
allowed in any case
well hair die Prophet M wasallam had
recommended that the hair be
dyed when it becomes
gray this was the recommendation of the
prophet wasallam he said die your
hair so this is the
circumstance covering the
gray giving a youthful look to the
Muslim
umah
but this practice now of changing one's
hair color this week I'm blonde next
week I'm a red head the week after I'm a
brunette week after that I've got black
hair you know this is a
western concept a western practice where
people are radically changing their
looks you know you change your hair
color to match your dress this is
Western it has nothing to do with the
Norms of of a healthy Society this is a
fashion conscious addicted to the
fashion uh way of life Islam does
not encourage this I cannot say
Haram I cannot say
Haram
because in itself the act of dying your
hair I mean it's something not
preferable but we cannot say forbidden
but we you know we are doing it imita in
the
non-muslims then it becomes or it falls
under the head category of the in which
the prophet
said whoever imitates the way of a
people is of them you know that we have
to beware that we don't become uh so
influenced by Western culture that you
know we are our whole values have
changed you know we're trying to be this
and trying to be that and trying to look
like this and trying to look like that
and colored contact lenses falls in the
same category though primarily we cannot
say Haram but they're discouraged I mean
why do you want to have blue eyes well
because blue eyes has been promoted in
the media as you know a standard of
beauty blonde here blue eyes this is
sort of like a a universal standard
which has come from the West
a minority of human beings on the earth
have this description but so many people
are artificially dying their hair blonde
and getting contact blue contact lenses
so they can fit into that picture it's
not good this is something harmful
people are spending and wasting money
you know trying to follow these uh
Fashions so we should not allow our
children to do this stop them from it
it's a part of an addiction to a culture
which is is not Islamic at
all as to the use of black Dy Prophet M
wasallam did say Do not dye your hair
with
black he said that in relationship a
particular individual who had died and
they were preparing him for burial he
told them his hair was white as said die
Dy hair but not with
black so on that basis we accept the
instruction of the prophet wasallam and
we don't die our here using black
the next question from Miss kesi or M
kesi drawing painting human beings
animals flowers and plants is it
allowed well the drawing and painting of
human beings and animals is not allowed
birds not allowed fishes not
allowed animal plants trees
mountains the the clouds the Sun the
Moon buildings
cars the
water all of that is
allowed ships it SE all of that is
allowed but
the painting or drawing of animals and
human beings are forbidden not just by
Islam it's not Islam just just you know
the final form which introduced this
this has been prohibited thousands and
thousands of years Years Ago by the
prophets of God it's still recorded in
the T or the Torah of Moses it's
mentioned there you should not make any
Graven image an image painted carved
drawn Etc of any living
being outside of the animal the trees
Etc any living being that is in the air
in the sky in the water or on the land
forbidden why because this is the door
to
idolatry what when we look at all the
idols that people are worshiping what
are the idols of they're Idols of
animals or human beings that's the most
common Idols that people worship not to
say that maybe people somewhere sometime
don't worship something else but for the
most part the vast majority of people
worship Idols in the form of human
beings or
animals so this door was closed and the
prophet Muhammed wasallam
mentioned that from the time of Adam
when Adam was created and he was not
only the first man but he was also the
first prophet he was given Revelation
the religion he had was Islam and he
taught his offspring Islam and they
continued to practice it all the way
down to the time time of prophet no or
Prophet Noah in his
time there
were five righteous people who when they
died Satan came to the masses of people
and suggested to them that they make
images of these righteous
people paintings carvings drawings of
them and they place them in the places
where they used to sit where they used
to frequent at their Graves so that when
people would go to the graveyard or
wherever they used to sit Etc and they
would see these images it would remind
them of these righteous people and they
would be encouraged to do good
deeds the people liked the idea it
sounded good so they did it and that
first generation went and that's what
they that's what they did whenever they
saw the picture of such a white
person right white uh good person
righteous person they would continue to
do good and it would encourage them to
to do
good however Generations later Satan
came back to the people who by now had
forgotten what the original intention of
those who first made these Idols were or
these images were and he came to them
and suggested to them this next the
later
generation that really your ancestors
your grandparents Etc they were
worshiping
these images and it was due to their
sincere worship of the images that
rain came in abundance the fields
yielded great
yields and the people began to worship
them this is how idolatry crept in to
the world and Prophet n was sent to call
people back to the worship of the one
true God without any images and
representations of that God so because
of that Islam has prohibited the use of
images in whatever
form however there's an exception made
for
children young children are allowed to
have images they learn better by
it
dolls pictures these kind of things are
permitted for children once they grow up
then we no longer keep these things we
remove them from our
homes so you don't want to be a 25y old
woman and you still have the dolls that
you had when you were a kid no get rid
of them don't save them for sentimental
value no they now become Idols get rid
of them as a baby as a child you played
with them now your time is over you no
longer play with them get rid of
them so that's the general ruling
concerning
them the next
question what do you have to say in the
light of the Sunnah and the Quran about
working women especially those who don't
need to work
well in
general we would say
that the general or the norm for the
Muslim Society is that the man Works he
goes out he earns a living and he
provides for the woman the woman stays
home she looks after the home she looks
after the children that's the normal
setup of the family structure and the
work place that's the
norm now if a woman goes out to
work along with her husband then the
children are now put in a crash or a
nursery or whatever other people will be
raising that child that woman when she
goes out to work she's making more money
makes life a little more comfortable for
them but what is happening to that child
that child is being
denied in those early
years the intimate comfort and love of
the mother because no matter how uh well
Tred the people of the nursery may be
you know they've been Western trained or
whatever they've had all this kind of
training the fact is they're not mothers
they're not the mother of those children
and they will not treat the children the
same as their own
mother and they're human
beings how many cases we hear of where
uh child care workers people in
nurseries Etc have abused children a
woman is put with 10 kids
babies at first maybe she has a big
heart she goes in she's taking care of
them she changes these diapers and you
know she's doing this looking out
feeding this one on and so on so taking
care of everybody but after a while she
gets worn down this one is screaming and
that one she starting to why does stop
screaming why does this one say next
thing you know she's taking the pillow
put it over the head of the kid and K
dies or she takes up another kid starts
shaking the kid stop screaming stop
screaming until the kid you know the
flopping of the head back and forth
causes them to have brain seizures and
they die how many cases many many cases
of this
happening
so mothers your first responsibility is
to your children you should stay home
and look after those children now if
there's something you can do from home
because maybe there's some jobs that can
be done from home then and you have the
spare time and no harm as long as the
family doesn't
suffer and if you have no need to go out
of
work now what motivates you to go out of
work the woman says well I don't don't
feel fulfilled this is the Western
concept that a woman is not
fulfilled she is not you know uh
fulfilling her uh potential unless she's
out in the workplace she's out there
being a secretary you know driving a cab
you know whatever a bus conductor she
you know this makes her feel worthwhile
but staying in the home this is like you
know
backwards hey staying in the home home
is far more important it's a much bigger
job and it's the primary
job I should also add here that when
women go out in the workforce and they
start to compete with men for the same
jobs what happens to those men who lose
out now you have a man who has no job
who is unable to take care of his
family this is why the Islamic soci
soety would discourage women from going
out let the wom men do the work and if
there's a shortage that's another
situation where there's a need in the
society then people may come out and
fulfill that need but don't put men out
of
work no don't make men
unemployed who need to work to look
after a
family no Islam doesn't encourage this
however there are certain jobs that
women are
encouraged to take to
learn the jobs which relate to education
teaching for teaching girls in school
teaching young girls young women the
teaching profession this is a profession
very important so we have female
teachers to teach our women and the
girls we also have certain professions
which are also vital professions like
medicine we should have female gyne
ologists we should have female dentists
you know and other professions which
women need to deal with we should have
female uh Bankers you know of course in
Islamic Banks where the females can deal
with females when they have to deal in
the bank you know wherever we can uh
provide uh
female uh female people working for
example in stores where they're selling
lingery you know selling women's private
clothes you don't want a woman going to
a store your wife daughter whatever
she's going to a store and a man is
going to be there you know holding up
panties and brazers and things like this
for your daughter to look at and no it's
it's not it's not good no it should be
if anybody's going to show it to your
wife or your daughter should be a man a
female female so shop assistants who are
uh females who doing these things so
where we have these kind of
circumstances where there's a need here
then people may take these kind of jobs
otherwise for a woman just to go out and
work for the sake of working no better
she stays home she learns her religion
you know goes and takes some classes and
improves her knowledge prepare her to be
the best mother she can for your
children because that's what's most
important for her to give the
children as much as she can from
knowledge of the religion
from proper
upbringing learn about raising children
rather than learn about it after you
made your mistakes you look back and say
oh I shouldn't have done that maybe with
the next one I won't no better when we
go into raising children we study it
find out learn you know there's a lot of
information available to us today we
don't have to learn you know as we go
learn from our mistakes we don't have to
people have already written books and
identified where common mistakes are etc
etc and advised us as to how to raise
children properly so we should women
should take advantage of that they can
help educate their husbands you know
with regards to certain issues and
practices which are also very
important uh that she has the last
question really um Miss G's last
question is as for career for women how
does a career in the field of Human
Resources
stand well it depends on what that
career has to do if she has to be
interviewing men all the time men are
coming in for this job and the other job
and she has to interview them and be
constantly dealing with men we say no
this is not a good
field if she's interviewing women for
women's positions then it's okay fine
good well so the circumstance of her job
will determine whether the job Des you
know in other words the job description
will determine whether that job is
acceptable for a Muslim woman or it's
not with that dear viewers i' like to
thank you for being with us in this
segment of our
program and we hope to hear from you uh
through your letters or emails or
whatever calls Etc we'd like to hear
from you and um so we can share your
questions with the viewers and also to
answer the questions for you yourselves
with that I bid you
farewell