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A Message to Chaste Women - I

A Message to Chaste Women - I

O Muslims, fear Allah, for fearing Him is the best provision, and will have the best result in the Hereafter: {Indeed, the [best] outcome is for the righteous.} [Quran 11:49]

O Muslims, there are a people whose feeling of resentment has erupted and their hostilities have intensified, with the aim of deploying their utmost power and most odious means to exterminate virtue, decency and purity. They are doing this because chastity provokes their anger, embitters their minds and burns their hearts.

They were born in the lap of Islam and brought up in the countries of Islam, but when they grew up, the bitterness of hostility seemed appealing to them and they preferred blindness to guidance, carried the mattocks of destruction, and raised the flag of blatant conspiracy. What good would be expected from such slaves of the enemies of Islam who are too difficult to be emancipated or released. They are in the position of agents, or rather, their slaves or servants.

These people, who do not deserve to be called men, are deceitful and lead others astray. They have been launching a fierce campaign against the purity of the Muslim society and against the Muslim women to make them remove their Hijab. They wish to desecrate the honor of Muslim women. They want Muslim women to work in the arenas of men and all other areas. They are, thereby, laying the foundation of mixing between the sexes; they want to implant this malicious habit in the Muslim society. May Allah cut off their hands, silence their tongues, and abate their breath!

{And they will surely swear, "We intended only the best." And Allah testifies that indeed they are liars.} [Quran 9:107]
{And when it is said to them, "Do not cause corruption on the earth," they say, "We are but reformers."Unquestionably, it is they who are the corrupters, but they perceive [it] not.} [Quran 2:11-12]

O Muslims, Islam legislates boundaries to protect women from the plots that are woven by dissolute, notorious hypocrites who seek to exploit them. Muslim women will always be protected by the umbrella of Islam to enjoy honor, pride, and respect. Under the protection of Islam, a woman is a well-guarded pearl, a noble queen, an icon of freedom and chastity, and an honorable sister, whose Hijab is her beauty, screen is her glory, and outer garment is her honor and perfection. She takes her guidance from Islam and follows her way on the light of the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allah exalt his mention ).

Let them be despised, these advocates of indecency and supporters of evil conduct, for women do not reap anything beneficial from mixing with men and exposing their bodies, including their hair and arms except tainted glances, mischievous harassment, immoral assaults, weariness, exemplary punishment and evil results:

{And whoever takes Satan as an ally instead of Allah has certainly sustained a clear loss.} [Quran 4:119]
{Then will you take him and his descendants as allies other than Me while they are enemies to you? Wretched it is for the wrongdoers as an exchange.} [Quran 18:50]

O Muslims, these sinful claims and misleading slogans have appeared in the past in many regions and countries. Their patrons succeeded to make women descend from their impenetrable palaces and high forts to remove their Hijabs and depart from safety. They made women themselves free from all authority; they made them go everywhere and venture into all fields of work. What was the result of all this? It was no more than confinement to the most despicable depths of dissoluteness and wickedness and involvement in the lowest depths of debauchery and depravity.

Now, we have the right to wonder what has the liberated woman, as they allege, and modern woman, as they describe, come to be. She has become humiliated, exploited and enslaved. She has become an instrument of amusement and entertainment in wicked, lustful hands, working with her breasts before her hands, working as a dancer in houses of prostitution, a model in houses of fashion, and a prostitute in bordellos and show business. Is this what they call women’s liberation and empowerment? The Messenger of Allah  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allah exalt his mention ) said:"I am not leaving after me a temptation more harmful to men than [the temptation of] women. So, protect yourselves from [the temptation of] this world and protect yourselves from women, for the first temptation of the Children of Israel was with women."

O Muslims, the absolute separation between men and women is a moral, behavioral, social, and security necessity, because permitting mixing between men and women is the source of every distress and shortcoming and the basis of every evil and vice. In this respect, it is narrated on the authority of ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Aamir Al-Juhani, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said, “The Messenger of Allah  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allah exalt his mention ) said: ‘Beware of entering upon women.’ A man from the Ansaar (helpers) said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what about male in-laws?’ He said: ‘Male in-laws are death.’" [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

It is narrated on the authority of Umm Salamah, may Allah be pleased with her, that she said, "When the Messenger of Allah  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allah exalt his mention ) would finish prayer, he used to stay for some time. We saw that he did so in order to allow the women to leave before the men." [Abu Daawood]

It is narrated on the authority of Ibn ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him and his father that he said, “The Messenger of Allah  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allah exalt his mention ) said: ‘Would that we leave this gate [of the mosque] for women.’" Naafi‘  may  Allah  have  mercy  upon  him commented, "From that time on, Ibn ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, never again passed through it until he died." [Abu Daawood]

It is narrated on the authority of Abu Usayd Al-Ansaari, may Allah be pleased with him, that he heard the Messenger of Allah  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allah exalt his mention ) when he came out of the mosque and saw how men were mixing with women in the street, addressing the women by saying:"Make way, for you are not to be in the middle of the road: walk to the sides of the street!" [Abu Daawood]

Allah The Exalted, The Almighty, Says in His Noble Book (what means):{And when you ask them for something, ask them from behind a partition. That is purer for your hearts and their hearts.} [Quran 33:53]

These are proofs, from the Book and the Sunnah, that refute the falsehood of every obstinate renegade and put an end to the errors of every insincere deviant who has swerved from his fresh sweet way of Islam to the putrefied stagnant swamp of wickedness and misguidance.

O Muslim girls, be as Allah The Almighty wants you to be and as the Messenger of Allah  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allah exalt his mention ) liked for you to be, and not as intended by the propagators of seduction, and advocators of women uncovering their bodies and mixing with men. You are, among us, the ones who are raising generations, the makers of men, the planters of the seeds of virtues and high manners, those who foster noble deeds, and the builders of nations and glories. Do not be a mattock of destruction, an instrument of devastation, and a tool of change and Westernization in the pure lands and populous regions of Islam. Do not be a means for harming the Ummah (nation) of Muhammad  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allah exalt his mention ).

A Message to Chaste Women - II

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