Ideal Muslimah
Lecture # 14
(From
the book Ideal Muslimah by Dr. Muhammad Ali al-Hashimi)
Chapter
1: The Muslim Woman and Her Rabb (cont.)
1. She is distinguished by her Islamic character and
true religion p.
48
Islam
raised the status of women by placing the status of the mother above that of
the father, and it has also given women the right to keep their own family names
after marriage. The Muslim woman keeps her own surname and identity after
marriage, and does not take her husband's name, as happens in the West where
the married women is known by her husband's name as "Mrs. So-and-so,"
and her maiden name is cancelled from civic records. Thus Islam preserves the woman's
identity after marriage: although the Muslim woman is strongly urged to be a
good wife,
obeying
and respecting her husband, her identity is not to be swallowed up in his.
If
Some
discussion about the treatment of women in Arabia pre-Islam, and the treatment
of infant girls in pre-Islam Arabia and what goes on today in the world.
One of
the results of the Muslim woman's pride in her Islamic identity is that she
will never be loyal to anything or anyone other than Allah (subhanahu wa ta'ala), not
even her husband or her father, who are among the closest people to her. We see
the epitome of this loyalty (wala') in the life of the Prophet's wife Umm
Habibah (May Allah be pleased with her), Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan, the chief of
Makkah and
leader
of the mushrikin. She was married to the Prophet's cousin (son of his
paternal aunt) `Ubaydullah ibn Jahsh al-Asadi, the brother of the Prophet's
wife Zaynab. Her husband `Ubaydullah embraced Islam, and she entered Islam with
him, whilst her father Abu Sufyan was still a kafir. She and her husband
migrated to Abyssinia with the first Muslims who went there, and left her
father in Makkah, boiling with rage because his daughter had embraced Islam and
there was no way he could get at her.
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