Is there a word for the women who consider the home a prison?
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The questioner : Is there a word for the women who consider the home a prison?
The Shaykh : Yes, the word is that I say to the woman: the One who made the home a prison, if that expression is correct, is Allah (Mighty and Majestic). He said:[Al-Ahzab 33:33], and in the hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding women: .
And the woman in her home is free; she goes to every corner of the house, she does the housework, and she does things for herself. So where is the imprisonment? Where is the prison?!
Yes, it is a prison for the one who wants to roam freely and be like a man. And it is well known that Allah the Exalted gave men specific characteristics and women specific characteristics, and He distinguished between men and women in creation, in character, in intellect, and in religion, according to what the wisdom of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) requires.
And we say that the woman who says: the woman’s staying with her husband in the home is a prison, I say: she is objecting to the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Ahzab 33:33]. How do we make what Allah has commanded a prison?
But as I said: it is a prison for the one who wants to roam freely and join the men. Otherwise, it is joy. Staying in the home is joy, it is modesty, it is decency, it is staying away from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and it is staying away from the woman’s gazing at men. Because if the woman goes out and sees these men—this handsome young man, this handsome older man, this one wearing beautiful clothes, and the like—she is captivated by the men just as the men are captivated by the women.
So women should fear Allah and return to what their Lord and Creator said to them, and to what the Messenger of the Lord of the Worlds said to them and to others. And let them know that they will meet Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and He will ask them: what did you answer the messengers?
And they do not know when they will meet Allah. A woman may be in her home and her palace in the morning and be in her grave in the evening, or be in her home in the evening and be in her grave in the morning. So let these women fear Allah and leave the corrupt Western propaganda. For when these Westerners ate the meat of corruption, they left us the sinews and the bones. We pick up these sinews and bones after these Westerners have stripped them of their benefit. And they are now groaning and wishing that the woman would return, or rather that the woman would be like the Muslim woman in her home, in her modesty, and in her distance from places of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). But how can they have that?
[Saba 34:52]. Is it fitting for us, while we are Muslims, with our religion, our identity, our manners, and our morals, to pant after them, following them in harms? Glory be to Allah the Great! There is no power and no strength except with Allah.
The Shaykh : Yes, the word is that I say to the woman: the One who made the home a prison, if that expression is correct, is Allah (Mighty and Majestic). He said:
And abide in your houses
وقرن في بيوتكنTheir homes are better for them
بيوتهن خير لهنAnd the woman in her home is free; she goes to every corner of the house, she does the housework, and she does things for herself. So where is the imprisonment? Where is the prison?!
Yes, it is a prison for the one who wants to roam freely and be like a man. And it is well known that Allah the Exalted gave men specific characteristics and women specific characteristics, and He distinguished between men and women in creation, in character, in intellect, and in religion, according to what the wisdom of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) requires.
And we say that the woman who says: the woman’s staying with her husband in the home is a prison, I say: she is objecting to the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And abide in your houses
وقرن في بيوتكنBut as I said: it is a prison for the one who wants to roam freely and join the men. Otherwise, it is joy. Staying in the home is joy, it is modesty, it is decency, it is staying away from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and it is staying away from the woman’s gazing at men. Because if the woman goes out and sees these men—this handsome young man, this handsome older man, this one wearing beautiful clothes, and the like—she is captivated by the men just as the men are captivated by the women.
So women should fear Allah and return to what their Lord and Creator said to them, and to what the Messenger of the Lord of the Worlds said to them and to others. And let them know that they will meet Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and He will ask them: what did you answer the messengers?
And they do not know when they will meet Allah. A woman may be in her home and her palace in the morning and be in her grave in the evening, or be in her home in the evening and be in her grave in the morning. So let these women fear Allah and leave the corrupt Western propaganda. For when these Westerners ate the meat of corruption, they left us the sinews and the bones. We pick up these sinews and bones after these Westerners have stripped them of their benefit. And they are now groaning and wishing that the woman would return, or rather that the woman would be like the Muslim woman in her home, in her modesty, and in her distance from places of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). But how can they have that?