[ahmadfaruq]

The reformer says:


"In Islamic family life, the man is the full ruler and the woman is the full subject. In Anatolian villages there are women who work more than their husbands and who plough like their husbands. The man works outside and the woman works inside the house. They do not have time to go around or to divert. Their material and spiritual needs are very few. The man, crushed under poverty and oppression, tortures his wife as if he revenges himself on his wife. The woman obeys rather than rebelling. The man's thought is not so extensive as to treat his wife rightfully and with pity. The woman's intellect and thought are not so much as to look for the reasons why she endures all these hardships and for the way of escaping them. For this reason, divorce hardly occurs to the mind. In big cities, where people admire Europeans and try to be like them, divorce takes place more often. They lose Islamic customs, their personalities, their spirits, and the value of family. For such reasons as money, animal-like sexual desires and following the fashion, women also have to work. The religions, nationalities, ideas and feelings of these people, who are called 'progressives', are unlike one another. Especially the girls who have received education in Europe or America and come back have lost their spiritual values more. They live like Christian women. All of what they do is insincere and imitative."


The religion reformer's point of view and writing are reasonable here. We hear about those women who admire even Christian women's confessing in front of the priest. See this terrible example injuring the basis of our religion out of a crazy pleasure in imitating Europeans and Americans! In Islam, one does not need be forgiven by a man before one can entreat Allahu ta'ala to forgive one's sins; let alone having one's sins forgiven by a man, it is not permissible even to tell about one's sins to another person. As it is a guilt to commit sins, so it is a guilt to tell someone else about them. See this delicacy, this purity in our religion! While it would become one to admire this delicacy in Islam in protecting man's dignity and honor, one should have fallen into the ditches of aberration dug for the progressives if he admires the scandal of confession in Christianity, which disregards the chastity and honor of especially women.

In Islam, a woman does not have to work or earn money, neither indoors nor outdoors. If she is married, her husband, if she is not married, her father, or, if she has lost her father, her closest relative, has to work and bring her everything she needs. And the government's treasury called "Bait al-mal" provides for the woman who is without anybody to support her. In Islam, the burden of living is not shared between wife and husband. A man cannot force his wife to work in the field, in a factory or in any place. If the woman wishes and if her husband allows, she may work at places where there is work for women without joining with men. But, what the woman earns is her very own. Her husband cannot take anything from her by force. He cannot force her to buy what she needs for herself, either. Nor may he force he to do the work inside his house. The woman does the housework as a gift and favor to her husband. And this is a virtue which Muslim women have. It is a noble feeling in them. Islam's recognition of such rights for the woman and its protecting her against being a slave or a toy in men's hands, indicate that Allahu ta'ala lays much value in women.

Islamic books detailedly explain the beautiful duties of the woman towards her husband, of the man towards his wife, his children, his parents, towards his neighbors and even non-Muslim citizens. The Hadith says, "Among you, the one who has the most perfect iman is the one with the most beautiful morals"; "The best of you is the one who is good towards his women at home"; "I was sent to preach you all the good morals." In Islamic books, there are innumerable more hadiths that arrange the family life, that separate the duties of the man and the woman and encourage them to work. Religiously ignorant people's wrong, depraved behaviors incompatible with these hadiths cannot be defect or stain for Islam. Seeing these facts, it is obvious how wrong and unjust the writings of the people who call themselves "progressives" are.