THE MUSLIM HOME. EPISODE 1️⃣8️⃣ - Forming the Household 1️⃣6️⃣

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*THE MUSLIM HOME*

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*EPISODE 1️⃣8️⃣ - Forming the Household 1️⃣6️⃣*

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*2️⃣0️⃣ Re-evaluating women’s work outside the home*

The laws of Islaam complement one another. When Allaah commanded women to remain home saying:

*“. . . Stay in your houses . . .”*

[Qur'aan 33:33]

He also decreed that men, their fathers and husbands, etc., should be obliged to spend on them. 

The basic principle is that women should not work outside the home unless they have to. When Moosa على سلم saw the two daughters of the righteous man keeping back their flocks and waiting to water them, he asked them:

*“. . . 'What is the matter with you?’ They said: ‘We cannot water [our flocks] until the shepherds take [their flocks], and our father is a very old man.’”*

[Qur'aan 28:23]

They were apologetic about the fact that they had come out to water their flocks, because the guardian [their father] was unable to do so due to old age. So they were keen to do away with the need to work outside the home as soon as the opportunity arose; Allaah says:

*“And said one of them [the two women]: ‘O my father! Hire him! Verily the best of men for you to hire is the strong, the trustworthy.”*

[Qur'aan 28:26]

This woman made clear her desire to go back to staying at home to protect herself from the vulgarity to which she could be exposed if she worked outside the home.

In modern times, when the non-believers needed women’s labor after the two world wars, to make up for the resulting lack of men in the workforce, and there was a critical need to rebuild their economies, this coincided with the Jewish plots to “liberate” women and advocate their rights with the aim of corrupting them and consequently corrupting society as a whole. Thus the idea of women going out to work was established. 

In spite of the fact that the same motives were not present in our lands, and that Muslim men protect their womenfolk and spend on them, the women’s liberation movement developed in the Muslim world too, and even reached such an extent that women are sent abroad to study, then are expected to work so that these degrees will not go to waste. The Muslim societies are not in need of such a thing on such a grand scale as is the case, and one of the signs of this is the fact that there are men who are without work whilst fields are still being opened up to women. 

_To be continued... إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ‎_

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