Male Gods and Female Slaves on Earth - Priestly Ghost Revisited
By
Rashid Samnakay, New Age Islam
28 January
2023
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The Picture Emerges From “Bahishti Zewar"
(The Heavenly Adornment) That Girls Are Mere Chattels of Males And Their Total
Submission to Their Men, Was Divinely Ordained, Hence "Good" Girls
Accepted Their Position for Gaining Merit in Male Dominated Jungle Where He Was
the Lion King
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The current
situation in Afghanistan and Iran, in the context of Female Human Rights
violation, forbidden Emancipation and Freedom is somewhat beyond rational
analyses for an ordinary person with Western upbringing yet loaded with
oriental baggage.
There is no
reason however to be surprised at what is happening in, not only these two
countries but most of the so-called Muslim world.
With that
backdrop, one can draw on the past, not very distance past, events that may be
considered as the fountain of the mindset currently influencing the named
countries, viz Afghanistan and Iran, today.
Although
the Taliban (Talib of what one wonders?) gave hope to the World at large on
their second coming that they have now "softened" their previous
primitive hard core and will reform to march in step with enlightened world, so
as to be taken as civilised people!
But alas,
the primitive mindset was and is an obstacle in their culture preventing any
progress to enlightenment.
Interestingly,
in the mid nineteenth to mid twentieth century, when Muslims of India were
embroiled in heightened political activity, an Aalim by the name of Ashraf Ali
Thanvi (Deobandi Maulana at that!) who took the reigns in his hands to steer
the Muslims of India in Religious matters and wrote numerous books in Urdu,
Arabic and Persian.
A Religious
person and Sufi by inclination, Ashraf Ali however took active part in
Indo-Pakistan politics too!
From the
outset, it is to be said that , the gentleman's contribution in Religious
matters pertaining to Muslim women in particular, their education and place and
status in Society was, to say the least
awful; such that he was responsible in
relegating them, hundreds of years at least, back in the dark ages.
The main
source of his drive in revers was the Book he wrote for Muslim girls, named
socially; “Bahishti Zewar"--The heavenly adornment.
At one time,
it was made compulsory for Muslim parents to include the book as a dowry/gift to
girls to be read in their married life in order to become heavenly and good
wife.
It must be pointed out though that he did not
profit directly from this Religious enterprise.
This was ironic as he considered any form of
reading and writing thought to girls as being Satanic and misguided and
therefore he strongly opposed female Education. So much so that some of the
Quranic verses, such as, for example those related to Prophet Yusuf/Joseph and
his Master's wife's love affair with Joseph as being vulgar and to be read to
girls only under the strict supervision of an Aalim- Religious Scholar!
In this
book, Ashraf Ali advocated absolute submission by a wife to her husband and
girls to be obedient to their male guardians.
The
"four walls" of the house were to be their sanctuary... good girls
never ventured out of this sanctuary in order to be entitled to paradise in
Hereafter... under the guidance of males.
The picture
emerges from this book that girls are mere chattels of Males and their total
submission to their men, was divinely ordained, hence "good" girls
accepted their position for gaining merit in Male dominated jungle where he was
the lion King.
Fast
forward to present period and one finds astonishing similarities in the Taliban
edicts and Iran’s Priestly regime's crack down by morality police on female
coverings.
These
Edicts on the treatment of Females have no bases whatsoever in Quran. On the
contrary!
Some time
back, in a BBC documentary the reporter , a lady, asked the assembled Mullahs
(all leaders here are called Mullahs) in Afghanistan to explain the
contradictions....They unanimously replied that it has nothing to do with
Islam.... "It is our Forefather's custom and we follow it, ...we respect
our women," they said!
Have we not
come across often this phrase in the Book? It seems that more things one
expects to change the more it stays the same!
If only
some authority took the following message of a poet to heart. It applies to
both the above-mentioned countries in particular:
افغانیوں کے غیرت دین کا ہے ایک ہی علاج۔
ملا کو انکے کوہ و دمن سے نکال دو۔
"The
only solution to Afghan's pride/honour of their religion....
Is to
banish the Mullahs out of the hills and valleys."
Easy Said
than Done! But then has the Authority in Saudi Arabia not taken the message to
heart and may soon banish the Priests from the Holy Temple---Hail the Arabian
Caesar, one is forced to agree?
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A
regular contributor to New Age Islam, Rashid Samnakay is an Indian-origin
Engineer (Retd.) based in Australia for over forty years.
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