The desires of the Enemies of Islaam and their plots with regard to stripping the Muslim Woman of her honour, rights and status.
From the book: Rulings Pertaining to Muslim Women
By: The Noble Scholar; Shaykh Saleh al-Fawzan
Today, the enemies of Islaam, in fact the enemies of Mankind, from among the disbelievers, the hypocrites and those who have in their hearts a sickness are infuriated with the nobility, status and protection which the Muslim woman has been granted in Islaam.
This is because the enemies of Islaam and the hypocrites seek to make the woman an instrument of destruction; a snare by which they can entrap those who are weak in their eman (faith) and those who have bodily desires in order that they satisfy their desperate lusts. As Allaah, The Most High says:
“But the wish of those who follow their lusts is that you should deviate away (from the right path), far, far away.” [The Noble Qur’aan, Soorah An-Nisa:27]
Those among the Muslims who have a sickness in their hearts wish to transform the woman into a cheap commodity in the marketplace of the desirous and satanic temptations. They wish to make her a commodity displayed in front of their eyes, so that they can enjoy her beauty and exact from her what is far worse.
For this reason, they have tried hard to remove the woman from her home to join the men in the workplace, side by side, or to serve men in hospitals, as hostesses on planes, as teachers or students in mixed classrooms, as actresses in theatres, singers, as presenters in various forms of media, spreading fitnah (trials, temptations, corruption) with her voice and appearance.
Licentious magazines use pictures of naked young women as a means to spread and sell their publications.
Traders and manufacturers have also used these images as a means to sell their goods, by displaying them in their advertisements and on their goods.
Because of these dangerous developments, the woman has been removed from her original role in the house. As a result, the husband is obligated to find a maid to bring up his children and to run the affairs of the house. This has in turn caused much fitnah and produced many more evils.
However, we do not prohibit the woman from working outside of her house providing the following conditions are met:
• She must really need to work, or the society has a definite need for her to work, if there are no others who can undertake her type of work.
• That this work takes second place to her duties at home, which is her original and primary role.
• That her work is involved with women only, such as teaching women, or being a Doctor or Nurse for women only, and that she is separated from men.
Also, there is no harm for the woman to learn what she is required to know of her religion; it is in fact obligatory upon her to do so. There is nothing wrong if she is taught with other women, and she may attend lessons in the Masjid and other similar places, as long as she is separated from men, according to the pattern set by the women of the pioneer Islamic society (the women from the pious predecessors) in the way they used to work, study and attend Masjid.
Trans: Burhan Luqman, Darussalam Publications p15-17
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