http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2012/05/hijab-not-religious-requirement-al.html
Salaam
Shanaz
Thanks for the question, “What have i got to lose by following the Quran literally and the Messenger?”
The answer is nothing.
The answer is a major problem when you impose your beliefs on others. Blind following has been the source of so much pain and misery in the world.
A father killed his teen daughter for not wearing Hijab, it is not in Sudan, Afghanistan or elsewhere, it was right here in the USA. There was one in Canada too.
You and I may live in civilized societies where God-Given life is sheltered, but when your father kills and mothers silently goes along. There is something evil about it. If you say that is wrong, that is what most Muslims say – yet those murderers believed that they were following Prophet’s Sunnah.
In India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Dubai and elsewhere– ruthless, uncivilized idiotic men, quote Sunnah to frighten the wife, give a divorce at the whim and put that mother on the street. These men live here in America too. As a woman do you believe that Prophet, the mercy on mankind would have said something like that?
Gutless men, beat their wives, because they say Quraan allows it. Nonsense! The Quraan like the Bible and other holy books were interpreted by insecure control freaky men from the past, who wanted to keep woman under their thumb, mercilessly they have falsified translations of 4:34. Thank God finally; a woman Dr. Laila Bakhtiar has put these men to shame — it is not beating, it is separation that Quraan calls for. It is embarrassing to sit in the mosque and listen to these primates telling in interfaith conferences – that man can hit the woman softly like with tooth pick or tooth brush… and the smirk on their faces is disgusting. These men who had the audacity or ignorance to make a villain out of God; cause the suffering to women; half the population.
The bloody mistranslation of Quraan 1:7 is the main reason for Islamophobia. I have been dealing with almost every Islamophobes out there – Thank God that version of translation has been removed in the last two years. Thank God, I have put in my two cents with an Imam from Riyadh, I met in interfaith meeting. Now, the free copy of the Quraan given out is Muhammad Asad’s translation – which also carries at least one flawed (4:34) translation, and the Hilali Khan translation is corrected in a few places now.
Shanaz, why change?
I am not a scholar, and I did not go to an Islamic college to memorize and repeat the same stuff over and over again. I am a common Muslim like a majority of Muslims, I see the flaws that have caused so much pain to Muslim women in those nations…
Yes, it is wrong, but it is the books! An Imam from a small town would rather believe what is in the book than common sense. He has got something to back up and continue until we make those corrections and it is not easy.
All those men and women who were bent on bringing a positive change will be cursed and condemned by the religion industry mob – Iqbal, Sir Syed and a host of others were not spared, they were called Kafirs. Pakistan has another great man who is chased out of his country by the religious gangsters.
Those men had the balls to do the right thing regardless of what the mob said. Thank God we live in America and together, Insha Allah, remove the non-sense that has been ascribed to Rabbul Aaalamen and Rahmatul Aalameen. Even Hamza Yousuf is being attacked for talking sense; the worse that could happen to him is not visit Iran, Pakistan, Netherland and other place where he may be in danger. But the Muslim majority, the good 95% of them is picking the good stuff form the internet.
Prophet Muhammad is Rahmatul Aalameen, the mercy to mankind, is he not? Could he have said anything like what is ascribed to him?
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The great imams who may have mistakenly quoted prophet are not the ones to answer God on the Day of the judgment, it is you and I. And it is our responsibility to find the truth = the truth is simple; No injustice to any human, spouse or not, children or not, Muslims are not. That is how simple and good Islam is. That is why we call the Prophet Rahmatul Aalameen, the one who brought the message of mercy, from the most merciful God, our creator. Not ours, but everyone’s. His words and saying are to bring kindness and mercy to humanity and we need to de-corrupt his message.
Modesty is a requirement of Islam; Hijab (in various formats) is a cultural development and no woman should be forced to wear or not wear in the name of Religion.
Original posting URL – http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2012/05/al-azhar-confirms-hijab-is-not-part-of.html Much of the discussion is at WorldMuslimCongress@yahoogroups.com. Many have contributed both in favor and challenging it.
Mike Ghouse committed to nurturing pluralistic values enshrined in Islam.