Sharia Law: Man, Woman Stoned to Death for Illegal Sexual Intercourse in Afghanistan’s North-Eastern Badakhshan
New
Age Islam News Bureau
17
February 2022
• Violence
against Women Surges in Pakistan As Officials Arrest Two for Abducting, Selling
Women
• Amid
Debate, Women Lift Their Voices with Muslim Sacred Text
• Commercial
Registrations By Saudi Women Jump 112% Over Six Years
• Kuwait
Allows Women To Serve In Army, But Without Guns
• Job
Ad for 30 Women Train Drivers In Saudi Arabia Gets 28,000 Applicants
• Anger
over Bid to Ban Women's Marches In Pakistan
• Hijab
Row: So Many Religious Symbols In India But 'Hostile Discrimination' Against
Us, Contend Muslim Girls
• UP:
Cops Beat up Burqa Clad Women for Holding Pro-Hijab Protest
• Azhar
Grand Sheikh Calls For Reviving Right of Women To Earnings Of Marriage
Compiled
by New Age Islam News Bureau
URL: https://www.newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/sharia-law-illegal-sexual-intercourse/d/126393
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Sharia
Law: Man, Woman Stoned to Death for Illegal Sexual Intercourse in Afghanistan’s
North-Eastern Badakhshan
Photo PM News, Nigeria
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February
16, 2022
A man
and a woman have been stoned to death in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan
province, for having illegal sexual intercourse.
Two
local Taliban officials confirmed this on Wednesday.
A
Taliban official in the province told dpa that they were stoned at a sharia
court.
Muslim
men and women were not allowed to have sexual intercourse outside marriage
under sharia law.
It
also states that if a married man has sex with a married woman and there were
four witnesses, the couple should be stoned.
“They
have confessed that they had illegal relations and they had done this two to
three times,” the local official said.
Muezuddin
Ahmadi, who is in charge of the province’s information and culture department,
said that the issue was under investigation and promised serious action against
the perpetrators of the stoning.
The
Taliban are fighting for recognition on the international stage after having
seized power in August, partly in a bid to access aid funds and money stashed
abroad.
In
spite of assurances that they will respect human rights, many lower-ranking
officers have meted out gruesome punishments in recent months.
Local
newspaper Hasht-e Subh reported that the stoning took place publicly on Monday
in the Nasi district of the province.
It
was reportedly ordered by a Taliban commander.
The
rights situation across the country has deteriorated since the Taliban
takeover.
Most
female students were blocked from attending secondary schools and most women
have not been allowed to return to their jobs.
Women
must also wear a hijab and be accompanied by a close male relative when
travelling long distances.
Men
were encouraged to grow beards and wear traditional Afghan clothing while in
government offices. Music has been banned in the media.
Critics
who protest against these restrictions face harassment or imprisonment.
Source:
Daily Nigerian
https://dailynigerian.com/sharia-law-man-woman-stoned/
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Violence
Against Women Surges In Pakistan As Officials Arrest Two For Abducting, Selling
Women
Representative
Image
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16
February, 2022
Lahore
[Pakistan], February 16 (ANI): Violence against women is on the surge in
Pakistan as officials in Lahore have arrested the two people involved in the
abduction of girls and selling them in other provinces, reported local media.
Two
people involved in the abduction of girls and selling them in other provinces
have been arrested, Dawn quoted SSP Investigations Lahore Imran Kishwar in a
press conference at his office here on Tuesday.
The
arrested suspects were proclaimed offenders (POs) and were identified as Faisal
and Ashfaq Butt. In the recent past, they had lured a 19-year-old girl, Diya
Akram, on the pretext of giving her a job and took her to Karachi, said the
Pakistani publication.
According
to Dawn, from there, they shifted her to Balochistan and sold her to a feudal
of Jhal Magsi Balochistan. They were also wanted in other cases, the SSP said
and added that one of the arrested suspects extracted over Rs10 million from a
citizen after posing as an FIA officer.
Police
arrested a man posing as an Elite official at the Shera Kot check post. The
suspect identified as Zia-ul-Rehman posed as a cop of Elite force. On
suspicion, police investigated and found him an imposter. Police arrested him
and recovered a weapon after registering a case.
It
came a report last year underlined that nearly a thousand minor girls and women
from Pakistan’s religious minorities including Hindus and Christians face
violence and in most cases they are abducted, forcefully converted to Islam and
are married off every year.
Citing
an inquiry done by the British-led All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), Islam
Khabar reported that the figure is an estimation based on extensive probe, but
not accurate since “true numbers may never be ascertained.
“The
report, which was published in September 2021 focuses on the cases of Christian
and Hindu girls between the ages of 12-25, of religious minorities including
Hindus (1.59 per cent) and Christians (1.60 per cent) of Pakistan’s 220 million
population, Islam Khabar reported. Buddhists, Sikhs and Kalash are also
surveyed with the help of their representative bodies, field surveys and by
individuals who appeared before the probe body. (ANI)
Source:
The Print
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Amid
debate, women lift their voices with Muslim sacred text
16
February 2022
CAIRO
-- The young woman could hear her heart pounding so hard that she worried the
microphone placed in front of her would pick up its sound. Seated around her
were officials from Islamic nations, including her country’s president. Cameras
clicked.
She
closed her eyes.
Al-Zahraa
Layek Helmee’s voice filled the spacious, columned hall with a melodic
recitation of the Quran, a role customarily held by men in her country, Egypt.
For the 18-year-old, the high-profile recitation of Muslim holy text at a Cairo
conference of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation was a personal milestone
— one that she also hopes would send a message to women and girls: That can be
you.
“I
wanted to prove that women have a great role to play when it comes to Quran
recitation," she said.
Across
cultures and Muslim communities, the boundaries of such a role can be subject
to debate. Attitudes vary toward women publicly reciting the Quran within
earshot of nonrelated men — in person, online or in other media. While the most
skilled female reciters may attain celebrity-like status in some countries,
others are largely confined to private spaces or all-women audiences.
Campaigns
have been springing up online to amplify the voices, and widen the reach, of
female Quran reciters across the world, with many posting their recitations and
encouraging others to follow suit. It’s part of a larger effort by some Muslim
women who say they want to build on the historical examples of other women in
their faith to expand their spiritual leadership roles in Islamic spaces.
Online,
where Helmee has 1.2 million followers on Facebook, many cheer her on. Others —
men and women — reprimand her in messages, urging her to “fear God” or arguing
that her voice can tempt men, an idea she rejects.
The
controversy “is a matter of convention more than law,” said Zahra Ayubi, a
Dartmouth College associate professor who studies gender and Islamic ethics.
The
concern over women’s public recitation, she said, emerges from the
interpretation by some that a woman’s voice is part of her “awrah” — nakedness
or vulnerability — and should therefore be guarded from nonrelated men to
prevent temptation. But many scholars and religious bodies have contested the
argument that a woman’s voice in itself can be “awrah,” saying it’s what she
says and her manner of speech that matters.
“When
women are reciting the Quran, it’s an incredibly powerful response to the idea
that their voices are awrah,” Ayubi said. “Because they are speaking the most
honorable truth for Muslims, and in doing so keeping true to God’s command to
speak honorably.”
Learning
to read and understand the Quran is considered crucial for men and women alike.
But perfecting recitations, or reciting professionally, usually takes rigorous
studying and practice to master elaborate rules governing such things as proper
pronunciation and articulation.
For
many Muslims, the voice of Quran reciters permeates daily life, blaring from
car radios and smartphones or playing out on television channels. Reciters are
often invited to religious or social events, sometimes moving their listeners
to tears. Many devout Muslims play recordings of favorite reciters at homes or
businesses to contemplate the verses or soothe their souls.
Seemi
Ghazi, who teaches Quranic Arabic at the University of British Columbia,
recalls how —growing up — she would wake up to the sound of her mother reciting
the Quran.
“For
so many Muslims, we actually experience the Quran primarily and initially
through the breath, the tone, the embodiment, the voice of women, most often
our mothers,” she said. “So it’s not as though hearing a woman’s voice is
something so new. It’s the question of the public sphere which may be
distinctive.”
Ghazi,
who recites Quran as part of Sufi circles she leads in Vancouver and at
interfaith events, sees a blossoming of Muslim women’s voices in alternative
Islamic spaces, particularly on social media.
There
was a time when Maryam Amir didn’t even know women could be Quran reciters;
today she is part of that blossoming. The California-based Amir recalls
recoiling the first time she heard a girl reciting at an event where men could
hear her. She complained to the organizer.
“She
was from Indonesia, and she told me, ‘In Indonesia, women recite the Quran on
television, in conferences, in competitions.’”
One
of those women, Maria Ulfah, has made a name for herself that transcends
Indonesia’s borders. She’s won and judged competitions at home and abroad and
has been invited to recite in many parts of the world. Her recordings have
carried her voice to the faithful outside of Indonesia. At home, where she says
female reciters enjoy the same status as men, some fans have named their
children after her.
“In
Indonesia, people are very appreciative and proud,” Ulfah said.
Differences
in attitudes, she argued, are largely cultural.
In
California, Amir’s views on the topic have evolved through her research and
interactions with Muslims abroad. She has memorized the Quran, becoming a
“hafiza,” a role that is highly prized and encouraged in Muslim communities.
She’s also studied Islamic sciences, launched a social media campaign to get
women to post recitations of themselves and is now working on a new app. It
features recitations by Muslim women around the world, created in collaboration
with a council of Islamic scholars.
Amir
says she's seen signs of a shift in attitudes.
“Since
people started hearing that scholars have different opinions on this issue ...
people are starting to think about this differently,” she said. “There are many
women who memorize the Quran, but they had no idea they could recite in these
spaces."
Madinah
Javed, who grew up in Scotland and now lives in Chicago, has also turned to
social media to highlight female reciters like herself while campaigning to
inspire more to share recitations. She is amazed by the resulting connections
among women from different cultures and with different styles of recitations.
“It’s
important for both men and women to hear women reciters,” she said. “It’s
important for men and boys to make space for women too, because they might have
more accessibility in certain places or more privilege.”
Online,
Javed has encountered strong support from some, while she found others to be
more focused on appearance, like whether her neck was showing, than the
recitation.
As
great as social media has been to raise awareness, she said, real change takes
face-to-face interactions. “It’s going to take a much longer time for change to
happen” in some communities.
In
Egypt, the makeup of the country’s syndicate for reciters and those who teach
Quran memorization provides one indication of the road ahead for those
advocating female representation. Of 10,000 members, there are just about 100
women and they are focused on teaching memorization, according to the
syndicate’s head, Mohamed Hashad.
Hashad
said he, personally, sees no theological reasons to stop public female
reciters. “It’s more like social reasons,” he said. “Women don’t feel
comfortable sitting among the men to read Quran."
Helmee,
who started learning the Quran with a tutor shortly after she turned 3 and
memorized it at 10, hopes that will change.
“I
run into women who tell me they wish they could do the same thing I do but that
it’s too late for them now,” she said. “I also meet women who tell me they pray
their daughters would grow up to be like me.”
Source:
ABC News
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Commercial
registrations by Saudi women jump 112% over six years
February
17, 2022
JEDDAH
— The rate of issuing commercial records for businesswomen increased by 112%
during the past six years, the Ministry of Commerce revealed.
Commercial
registrations by Saudi women recorded the largest ever growth rate last year.
The ministry issued 139,754 records during 2021 compared to 65,912 records in
2015.
The
total commercial records registered reached 817,930, which is considered a
significant leap.
The
ministry has been keen on enhancing women's participation in economic
activities and has taken a number of initiatives, most notably enabling women
to start a commercial activity easily, making it accessible for women to
request records, trademarks, dealerships and to practice freelance professions.
Women’s
commercial activities focused on several sectors, particularly in wholesale and
retail trade, information and communication technology, administrative
services, professional, scientific, and technical activities, transportation
and logistics, real estate activities and contracting.
The
ministry also focused on its services to the business sector by establishing
business centers for women within an advanced work environment that relies on
modern technology. This comes in line with the objectives of the Vision 2030.
Source:
Saudi Gazette
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Kuwait
allows women to serve in army, but without guns
Feb
17, 2022
Kuwaiti
women are angry after the military, having allowed female soldiers in combat
roles, decided they need the permission of a male guardian and banned them from
carrying weapons.
Activists
have decried the policy as "one step forward, two steps back" after
the defence ministry also decided that women in the armed forces, unlike
civilians, must wear head coverings.
The
moves have sparked an online backlash in Kuwait, usually regarded as one of the
most open societies in the Gulf.
"I
don't know why there are these restrictions to join the army," Ghadeer
al-Khashti, a sports teacher and member of Kuwait Football Association's women
committee, told AFP.
"We
have all kinds of women working in all fields, including the police
force."
She
said her mother had helped the resistance when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in
1990 invaded Kuwait and occupied it for seven months before being pushed out by
a US-led international coalition.
"My
mum during the Iraqi invasion used to hide weapons under her abaya and transport
them to members of Kuwait's resistance, and my father encouraged it," said
Khashti.
"I
don't understand on what basis they see women as weak."
The
ministry decided in October to allow women in combat roles but then imposed the
restrictions after the defence minister was questioned by conservative lawmaker
Hamdan al-Azmi.
Azmi,
emboldened by an Islamic religious edict, or fatwa, had argued that having
women in combat roles "does not fit with a woman's nature".
'WOMEN
MARTYRS'
Lulwa
Saleh al-Mulla, head of the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural and Social Society, said
the ministry's restrictions are discriminatory and unconstitutional and vowed
legal action by the organisation.
"We
have women martyrs who defended their country of their own volition," she
told AFP. "No one ordered them to do that but the love for their country.
"We
are a Muslim country, that is true, but we demand the laws not be subject to
fatwas. Personal freedom is guaranteed in the constitution, on which the
country's laws are based."
Kuwaiti
women earned the right to vote in 2005 and have been active both in cabinet and
parliament, though they are poorly represented in both.
Unlike
most Gulf countries, Kuwait is known to have an active political scene, with
MPs regularly challenging the authorities.
Earlier
this month, dozens of Kuwaiti women staged a protest against the suspension of
a women's yoga retreat deemed "indecent" by conservatives.
One
of them was Azmi who, in Twitter posts, denounced the retreat as
"dangerous" and "alien to our conservative society".
Women
protesters carried placards denouncing the "exploitation of women's
issues" in politics, as well as the "regime of fatwas" and
"guardianship of women".
The
debate about the army's new rules for women has taken an irrational turn, said
Ibtihal al-Khatib, an English-language professor at Kuwait University.
"The
army needs to integrate both women and men without discrimination," the
feminist academic told AFP.
"Danger
does not differentiate between men and women, and neither does death during
battle."
Source:
The Daily Star
https://www.thedailystar.net/middle-east/news/kuwait-allows-women-serve-army-without-guns-2964241
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Job
ad for 30 women train drivers in Saudi Arabia gets 28,000 applicants
16
February ,2022
A job
advert to recruit 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia has attracted 28,000
applicants, highlighting the scale of demand as the kingdom opens up more opportunities
to women.
Spanish
railway operator Renfe said on Wednesday an online assessment of academic
background and English language skills had helped it to reduce the number of
candidates by around a half, and it would work through the rest by mid-March.
The
30 selected women will drive bullet trains between the cities of Mecca and
Medina after a year of paid training.
Renfe,
which said it was keen to create opportunities for women in its local business,
currently employs 80 men to drive its trains in Saudi Arabia, and has 50 more
under instruction.
Job
opportunities for Saudi women have until recently been limited to roles such as
teachers and medical workers, as they had to observe strict gender segregation
rules. Women were not allowed to drive in the Kingdom until 2018.
Female
participation in the workforce has nearly doubled in the last five years to 33
percent amid a drive by the Saudi crown price to open up the kingdom and
diversify the economy, and women are now taking up jobs once restricted to men
and migrant workers.
Source:
Al Arabiya
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Anger
over bid to ban women's marches in Pakistan
Kamran
Chaudhry
February
17, 2022
Human
rights activists in Pakistan have blasted a proposal to replace the annual
International Women’s Day marches with a Hijab Day next month.
In a
Feb. 9 letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, the federal minister for religious
and minority affairs asked for a ban on the Aurat March in the country.
“The
banners, placards and slogans of the Aurat March pose the social system, given
by Islam, as a problem. Any class should not be permitted to hold the Aurat
March on Women’s Day and make fun of Islamic principles, social values, modesty
and chastity. It will strongly pain and raise concerns among Muslims of
Pakistan,” Noorul Haq Qadri stated.
Qadri
proposed highlighting discrimination faced by Muslim women in India and
occupied Kashmir due to their attire by observing Hijab Day in Pakistan on
March 8.
Saeeda
Deep, who has been volunteering for the annual march since 2018, rejected the
proposal.
“It’s
not our agenda to target a religion. We only wish to highlight our problems
such as forced conversions of underage minority girls,” Deep, founder of the
Institute of Peace and Secular Studies, told UCA News.
“The
Ministry of Religious Affairs has a trend of relating everything as a danger to
Islam. It is hypocrisy to advocate the women’s rights of Muslims in a
neighboring country and file court cases on women in Pakistan and persecute
them.”
Senator
Sherry Rehman also questioned organizing a Hijab Day instead of the Aurat March
on Women’s Day.
“How
is the right to wear a hijab under threat in Pakistan? Quite the opposite. He
can celebrate the hijab any day; one doesn’t exclude the other,” she said in a
Feb. 17 tweet.
Shaheen
Yousaf, the Catholic Women’s Organization coordinator in Lahore Archdiocese,
urged Aurat March organizers to avoid controversial slogans and placards.
“We
support movements for human rights and believe everyone should step out against
violations. However, the organizers should respect cultural norms and avoid
being too liberal or else our genuine demands will become a laughing stock.
People are still very sensitive on women’s issues,” she told UCA News.
In
2020, high courts in Islamabad and Lahore warned Aurat March organizers about
using offensive slogans, especially “My body, my choice,” which sparked
controversy and debate among social media users.
In
federal capital Islamabad, hardliners from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Sunni Ittehad
and Jamia Hafsa attacked a march and injured several people.
Last
year several clerics filed blasphemy cases against women marchers objecting to
anti-Islam chants and banners during rallies. However, there were no court
proceedings. Aurat March organizers condemned the “falsely captioned videos and
media.”
Source:
UCA News
https://www.ucanews.com/news/anger-over-bid-to-ban-womens-marches-in-pakistan/96153
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Hijab
row: So many religious symbols in India but 'hostile discrimination' against
us, contend Muslim girls
16th
February 2022
BENGALURU:
Contending that Indians flaunt diverse religious symbols, from the pendant to
the Hijab to the bindi and turban, the Muslim girls fighting the Hijab ban in
Karnataka on Wednesday asked why the government was 'picking' on the headscarf
alone and making "this hostile discrimination."
Prescribing
uniforms in the pre-university colleges is illegal, they said, adding, the
College Development Committee (CDC) headed by the MLA concerned has no powers
to decide on the issue.
Citing
a survey, petitioner girls' counsel Ravi Varma Kumar said people of the country
sport various religious symbols such as pendant, crucifixion, Hijab, Burqa,
bangles, Bindi on the forehead and the turban.
"I
am only showing the vast diversity of religious symbols in all sections of the
society. Why is the government picking on Hijab alone and making this hostile
discrimination? Aren't bangles religious symbols?" Kumar told the full
bench of the High Court comprising Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice J M Khazi
and Justice Krishna S Dixit.
Questioning
why no other religious symbol was considered in the government order and only
the Hijab, the senior counsel wondered whether that was done because of his
petitioners' faith.
"This
discrimination against Muslim girls is purely on the basis of religion and
hence a hostile discrimination, which violates Article 15 of the Indian
constitution. We are not heard but straightaway punished. This is
draconian," he argued.
Kumar
told the court that the purpose of education is to promote plurality and not
homogeneity. "Classrooms should be a place for recognition and reflection
of the diversity in society," he contended.
Regarding
the ban on Hijabs, he said that according to rule 11 of the 1995
rules--government provisions related to the Education Department--the
educational institutions should give notice to the students and parents about
changing uniform at least a year in advance.
Stating
that a dress code is not mandatory for the pre-university colleges, Kumar said,
"prescribing uniform in the government pre-university college is illegal.
Even the guidelines issued by the PU Education department in 2021-22 did not
speak about uniform."
"It
is an emphatic statement by the department that principals cannot prescribe a
uniform. Neither the pre-university board and the rules nor the Karnataka
Education Act prescribe any uniform or prohibition of Hijab. Such being the
case, under what authority are we kept out of the class," he asked on
behalf of the girls.
The
government order said the students should wear a uniform prescribed by the CDC
headed by MLAs concerned, which meant that the it has delegated its
administrative powers to the legislators.
The CDCs,
according to Kumar, were constituted by way of a circular in 2014 and not any
government order.
He
further told the bench that the CDCs were constituted for utilising grants as
well as maintain education standards. This CDC was not for students welfare but
only for academic standards, he contended.
Questioning
the formation of CDCs, Kumar argued the MLAs in the CDCs have been given
administrative powers.
"The
MLA cannot be entrusted with administrative powers. He is only the
representative of people to hold the government accountable."
"Giving
administrative powers to the MLAs will be a death knell to our democracy. The
MLAs should be fearless on the floor of the House. They cannot be made
subordinate to the Government," he added.
Stating
that the legislators represent a political party and a political ideology,
Kumar sought to know how can students' welfare be entrusted to a political
party and a political ideology.
"The
formation of such a committee itself is a death blow to our democracy and the
doctrine of the separation of power. Don't allow the committee to handle the
welfare of students and check them out of the classrooms," the senior
counsel said. The court adjourned further hearing of the case to Thursday.
Source:
New Indian Express
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UP:
Cops beat up burqa clad women for holding pro-hijab protest
16th
February 2022
At a
protest organised at Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, in solidarity with the hijab
row, policemen were seen hitting Muslim burqa-clad women with batons (lathis).
A
video of the same has made the rounds on Twitter. Police officials can be seen
attacking the women going so far as to pull the hijab off of one of the
protestors.
As
per a report by NDTV, an FIR has been filed by the police against the
protesters over the incident that happened on Sunday.
The
police have claimed that they knew about 15 Muslim women protesting in the
town’s Sani Bazaar road with “anti-government” protesters. The FIR further
claimed that female constables who asked the protesters to conclude their
demonstration were heckled and were abused by the male men involved in the
protest.
One
of the accused has been identified as Raees, according to the police complaint,
adding the men also threatened the constables.
The
matter is currently under investigation.
Background
of the hijab row:
Muslim
girls of colleges in northern Karnataka were asked to shun their hijab after a
group of male students arrived at the colleges, adorning saffron scarves, in a
protest against girls being allowed to wear headscarves on the college
premises.
Although
the rule book of a college suggested that girls are allowed to wear Hijabs on
the premises of the institution, the management recently prohibited the girls
from covering their heads, following the diktat of the state government.
However,
as Hindutva students protested, the controversy raged further, forcing the
state to call for a committee to look into the matter and take a call on
pre-university college uniforms across the state.
The
high court that is hearing a writ petition over the issue filed by a student of
a PU college in Udupi has provided no interim relief to the students and has
asked them to follow the state’s orders until further notice.
Source:
Siasat Daily
https://www.siasat.com/up-cops-beat-up-burqa-clad-women-for-holding-pro-hijab-protest-2276856/
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Azhar
Grand Sheikh calls for reviving right of women to earnings of marriage
February
16, 2022
The
Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, the top religious institution in Sunni Islam, Ahmed
al-Tayyeb received on Tuesday, from the Minister of Islamic Affairs a Call and
Guidance from Sheikh Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz Al Al-Sheikh, at the headquarters
of Al-Azhar Sheikhdom, to discuss joint cooperation between the two sides.
The
meeting dealt with women’s rights in Islam. Tayyeb stressed the necessity of
reviving the fatwa “the right in toil and pursuit” from our Islamic heritage,
to preserve the rights of working women who made an effort to develop the
wealth of their husbands.
He
pointed out that modern developments necessitated that woman enter the labor
market and share the burdens of life with her husband. Tayyeb said that the
Islamic heritage is rich in treatments for various issues.
“If
we contemplate them, we will stand on the extent of the abundance and depth of
this heritage,” and the keenness of Islamic Sharia to preserve women’s rights
and ensure everything that would preserve their dignity.
During
a telephone interview with the “Masaa DMC” (DMC evening) show on DMC satellite
channel, Hadidi said that toil and pursuit of the woman: whether it was from
her work or inheritance or an old financial estate before her marriage and then
she gave her husband or opened an account for him in the bank. This money is
estimated as an independent financial asset to the wife, away from the
inheritance form the husband, meaning that the heirs are not entitled to share
the wife in this money.
The
Grand Sheikh stressed that marriage life is not built on rights and duties, but
on friendliness, love and attitudes in which the husband supports his wife, and
the wife is support for her husband, in order to build a good family capable of
building and contributing to the advancement and progress of her society, and
raising generations capable of giving.
For
his part, the Executive Director of the Al-Azhar International Center for
Electronic Fatwa, Osama al-Hadidi, explained that the “right in toil and
pursuit” for women means the woman’s contribution to increasing the wealth of
her family, whether it is with her salary or by building a home for her family
or by owning a company or stores of her own.
“If
the husband died and there is no proof of the woman’s right of toil and
pursuit, it is then estimated by the wife’s estimation,” he added. Hadidi
called for the necessity of reinstating this fatwa, and stressed the role of
the House of Representatives in reinstating it.
Source:
Egypt Independent
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