A question about the status of women in Islam?
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The Shaykh : No, we did not say it because the occasion calls for it, against those who want to dominate women. Some people today want to elevate women above their level and above the station that Allah has assigned them, as a trial for people and a means of misguiding them. For the greatest trial left by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is?
The student: The trial of women.
The Shaykh : Women. So, as you see, people today have a great impulse among some to elevate women and focus on their affairs, not in a way that improves them, but rather it corrupts the general public because of them. Therefore, there is no harm in us saying this in response to those who dominate them and exalt them. Otherwise, it is not truly a burden in one aspect, but it is a support in another aspect. Who manages the home and its burdens and its repair except women? Some people, if their wife is absent from the home and guests come, he does not know how to make tea. This exists. He does not know how to make tea. Who does this? Women. So, they are a burden in one aspect and a support in another aspect. We ask Allah not to deprive us of them. Do not think that we are ever belittling them here, but we are crushing the statement of whoever wants to elevate women more than Allah the Exalted and Majestic has placed them. For this statement, without doubt, its source and origin is from the devils of mankind and jinn. Yes, Ahmad?
The questioner : If we say, O Shaykh, that this verse indicates the superiority of men over women, instead of saying that they are a burden.
The Shaykh : I said that we said it in response to those who said that she is the original.
The student: The trial of women.
The Shaykh : Women. So, as you see, people today have a great impulse among some to elevate women and focus on their affairs, not in a way that improves them, but rather it corrupts the general public because of them. Therefore, there is no harm in us saying this in response to those who dominate them and exalt them. Otherwise, it is not truly a burden in one aspect, but it is a support in another aspect. Who manages the home and its burdens and its repair except women? Some people, if their wife is absent from the home and guests come, he does not know how to make tea. This exists. He does not know how to make tea. Who does this? Women. So, they are a burden in one aspect and a support in another aspect. We ask Allah not to deprive us of them. Do not think that we are ever belittling them here, but we are crushing the statement of whoever wants to elevate women more than Allah the Exalted and Majestic has placed them. For this statement, without doubt, its source and origin is from the devils of mankind and jinn. Yes, Ahmad?
The questioner : If we say, O Shaykh, that this verse indicates the superiority of men over women, instead of saying that they are a burden.
The Shaykh : I said that we said it in response to those who said that she is the original.