Questionable Teachings
of Islam: One Billion People Deceived
What is really in the hearts
and minds of Muslim women who sense a seeming unfairness from their
husbands, their clerics and the Allah that they serve? Perhaps the
following excerpts of one woman's prayer can explain:
"Please,
Allah, leave us alone to cry and weep in peace. From behind the veil,
beyond public gaze we want to cry ['til] we cannot cry anymore. This
is the only right you have left us Muslim women, throughout the Islamic
world, where your laws are meticulously followed...we are tied forever
to the rigid and immutable shackles of your laws, Allah. No one ever
came forward for our emancipation. Unique is our society!
...What
an unbearable existence for us to live and survive among co-wives...
the frequent fights among co-wives, the pulling at one another's hair
are so degrading! And then, God forbid if the miyan, or husband, gets
into the fray, then we get beaten like a beast until we cannot take
it anymore. And after the beating, to make it more degrading, the
miyan takes his other wife into the bedroom and shuts the door into
our face.
...Islam means peace. To watch silently the persecution
of women is perhaps this peace. Such lack of concern for women has
prevented all improvement in our condition. No blessing or show of
kindness from our angels has been bestowed upon us and so, Allah,
we are telling you once again about our sadness.
...And so, there
is nothing for a Muslim woman to look forward to. There is alot of
tears to shed though. A lot of weeping that has no remedy. And so
we are crying out to you, Oh Allah, you have given us one and only
one privilege and that is to weep. Please therefore let us weep in
peace and leave us alone."
"The Bitter Lament of a Muslim Woman" by
Jahanara Begum
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prayer, find it at:
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