Women's Paradise

By Abul Kasem

Abul Kasem

E mail : abul88@...



In the past few months many Islamic writers in NFB extolling
how good is Islam for women have written plenty of essays. They will spare
no pain to tell women how kind, just, progressive, non-discriminatory and
fair Islam is towards women. They have invented these essays after a few
articles by the Kafirs and Murtads clearly exposing the pathetic treatment
of women in the Quran and the Hadith were published in NFB.

After reading these essays by the Islamists, most women will
wonder where can they find such paradises for themselves. The Islamists will
never tell them where these paradises are or if any such paradise exist at
all or not. To give credibility to the messages written by these Islamists
towards our mothers, sisters, and wives, we need an absolute proof of where
can we find such Golden Islamic treatment for our women. So let us have a
look at the conditions of women in one of the Islamic paradises, Iran.

In this Islamic paradise (Jannat) the women have been
awarded with the following 'nek' from Allah: (please refer
http://www.homa.org/wings/irisituation.html for more
details)

1.Hijab has been forced on every woman whether she likes
it or not. Wearing no hijab may invite severe punishment. And what that
punishment could be? Let us hear from the mouth of Prosecutor General,
Abolfazl Musavi-Tabrizi. "Any one who rejects the principle of hijab in Iran
is an apostate and the punishment for an apostate under Islamic law is
death" (August, 15, 1991)
2.Women are fertile fields to grow babies. Unbelievable
isn't it. Let us hear from Ayatollah Mutahari. He said, "The specific task
of all women in this society is to marry and bear children".
3.Women are banned from studies such as Engineering,
Agriculture, Archaeology, Restoration of historic monuments, handicrafts and
many other fields.
4.Provisional marriage is lawful. A man may have four
"permanent wives" and as many "provisional wives" as he likes.
5.The marriage age for the girls was reduced to 13 and
then further reduced to 9 years. This is in keeping with the tradition of
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) who at the age of 51 married a 6 years old child
(Ayesha) and had sex with her when she became 9.
6.Iranian women cannot marry foreigners without the
written permission from the Ministry of Interior.

7.Divorce is an indisputable right of men and a woman can
be divorced without any prior consultation.
8.A married woman cannot travel, work, join organization,
go to college or visit her friends and relatives without her husband's
permission.
9.Married women cannot travel overseas without a written
permission from their husbands. This written permission must be presented to
the authorities. The authorities are also considering banning all women from
traveling overseas for higher study.
10.A husband can inflict any physical violence or any
other form of torture on a woman. You say 'this is absolutely cruel and
unacceptable in Islam'. Let us hear from an Islamic scholar on this matter.
Hojatoleslam Imani, a top religious leader says, "A married woman should
endure any violence or torture imposed on her by her husband for she is
fully at his disposal. Without his permission she may not leave her house
even for a good action (such as charitable work). Otherwise her prayers and
devotions will not be accepted by God and curses of heaven and earth will
fall upon her."
11.Women are stoned to death if their husbands charge them
for adultery. A woman was stoned to death even when no man was found to have
committed adultery with her. A Mullah took only sixty seconds to arrive at
the decision and she was stoned on the next day. Before stoning her to death
the mullahs shaved her head and she was buried in mud up to her shoulder.
Her husband and her two small children witnessed this
'rahmat' of Allah.
12.Women political prisoners are treated as war criminals.
They are captives (right hand's possession). Therefore, their guards can do
whatever they like. Their captors rape these captive women regularly and
systematically.
13.Virgin girls who are sentenced to death are not
executed till their captors had sex with them and rendered them un-virgin.
Since virgin girls go to heaven when they die, the Mullahs want to make sure
that these girls can never enter paradise after they are executed. It is
alleged that this type of sexual intercourse with virgin girl prisoners
takes place on a daily basis.
14.A report by the Organization of Women against execution
in Iran gives the following data for the period from 1981 to 1990.

1428 women executed

187 were under the age 18

9 girls under the age 13

The youngest girl executed was 10 years

The oldest woman executed was 70 years.

You say that these are not 'real Islam' and the Islamic
writers at NFB are dying to assert that those actions by the Mullahs of Iran
are distorted images of Islam. They even have the audacity to say that the
treatment of women in these Islamic paradises (Iran, Afghanistan) is against
the merciful teachings of Islam. To find the truth we just need to look at
the Holy Scriptures to see if these Mullahs in Iran are right or wrong in
the interpretation of the Allah's laws.

Sura al-Baqarah 2:223 Your women are a tilth for you (to
cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will, and send (good deeds) before you
for your souls, and fear Allah, and know that ye will (one day) meet Him.
Give glad tidings to believers, (O Muhammad)

This translation is by Pickthall. This sura clearly says
what a woman is all about. Yes, she is nothing but a paddy field to grow
paddy. In case you may think that this translation is not reliable, let us
look at the translation by Yusufali:

Your wives are as a tilth unto you, so approach your tilth
when or how ye will; but do some good act for your souls beforehand; and
fear God. And know that ye are to meet Him (in the Hereafter), and give
(these) good tidings to those who believe.

Are the Iranian Mullahs wrong in treating women as paddy
fields? I invite any Islamic writers in NFB to prove that what these people
(the Iranian Mullahs) do to the women is against the Quran.

What goes on a child's mind when he/she watches his/her
beloved mother is beaten mercilessly by the child's own father? The
experience is extremely disturbing, no doubt. But what is more disturbing is
that when the child grows up and finds that what his/her father did to
his/her dearest mum was really inspired by the Quran.

Sura an-Nisa' 4:34 ...As to those women On whose part ye
fear Disloyalty and ill-conduct Admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to
share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); But if they return to
obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For God is Most High,
Great (above you all).

In the translation of the above verse the word 'lightly' was
added by the translator Yusufali. The original verse does not contain any
such (lightly) word. Yusufali was so embarrassed that he added the word
'lightly' to make the verse a bit civilized.

In the above verse Islam has sealed the fate of women. They
are an object to be used as desired and if necessary should be subjected to
corporal punishment if she refuses any whim and fancy of her owner. She has
very little chance to escape from the tyranny of a religious bigot and a
cruel person. And what happens to the tyrant and the perpetrator who
inflicts physical punishment to her? The Quran is absolutely silent on this
matter. I ask any Islamic writer to prove that what the Iranian Mullah said
about the physical torture of women by men (in item 10) above is against the
Islamic rule.

In a civilized society any physical/mental abuse of a spouse
or a child is a criminal offense. The culprit is promptly arrested by the
police and tried in a court of law and punished accordingly. In Australia,
where I live, wife beating (rather spouse beating) and child abuses are
serious criminal offenses and the Govt. Authorities waste no time in
removing to a safe place the victims from the abusive spouse. The
whereabouts of the victims remain a top secret until the matter is settled
by the court. This is the secular law. The Quran, the Bible or any other
religious scripture did not inspire this law. If we go by the Quran, this
law to protect women and children from abusive spouse is surely not Islamic.
Why not? The simple reason is that this law of the infidels
infringes on the unquestionable and the absolute right of a man to beat his
wife whenever he likes.

Having sexual intercourse with captives is halal. You say
this is absolutely un-Islamic. Let us search the Quran.

Sura an-Nisa 4:24 And all married women (are forbidden unto
you) save those (captives) whom your right hand possess. ...(Translation by
Pickthall)

Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those
whom your right hands possess: ....(Translation by Yusuf Ali)

You say in modern world there are no such things as the
possession of the right hands. Think again. Quran is eternal. The world may
change but Quran cannot change. The Iranian Mullahs understand Quran much,
much better than you and me. Is not any woman who opposes any Islamic ruling
(read Allah's law) is waging a war against Allah? Are not the Mullahs
fighting the enemies of Allah? So, when they defeat the enemy (captured
rebel woman) she becomes the possession of the right hands (captives) of
them. And Allah has permitted them to have sexual intercourse with these
captive women.

Menstruation is an illness (disease)

Sura al-Baqarah 2:222 They question thee (O Muhammad)
concerning menstruation. Say it is an illness, so let women alone at such
times and go not in unto them till they are cleansed. (Translation by
Pickthall)

They ask thee concerning women's courses. Say: They are a
hurt and a pollution: So keep away from women in their courses and do not
approach them until they are clean. (Translation by Yusufali)

This verse is not only completely unscientific; but also a
gross insult to all the women of the world. How do the millions of working
women feel when they see this divine message! There can be no message more
misogynist than this verse from the Quran. This verse literally means that
all our mothers, sisters and wives suffer from permanent disease. The
natural corollary of this verse will be that when a woman reaches menopause
(that is her menstruation ceases) she becomes disease free! Since a woman
reaches her menopause between 55 to 60 years of age, doesn't this mean that
when a woman reaches her old age she is cured of her permanent illness that
afflicted her when she reached her puberty. What a weird logic!!

We can go on citing verses after verses from the Holy
Scriptures to illustrate how anti- feminine and hostile Islam is towards all
women. There is no doubt that what we observe being done to the women of
Iran and Afghanistan shocks every civilized person Muslim, non-Muslim alike.
Their treatment of women shakes the very foundation of what we call
civilized behavior. Islmists not living in these countries have very little
idea of what 'real Islam' is doing to every sister, mother and wife of these
paradises. Most of the Islamists living in the West have a very utopian
(academic) idea of the treatment of women according to the Islamic rules.
Their vision of Islam is purely based on the bookish knowledge of the Quran
and the Hadith without experiencing the true applications of these
verses/rules. What we are witnessing in these Islamic paradises is the
actual enforcement of these verses to the letter. Can any western Islamist
(new Mullah) prove that what their compatriots at these Islamic heavens
doing are anti-Quran and anti-Hadith?

The ominous message sent by the Mullahs of these Islamic
Jannat is plain and simple. Any woman who still thinks that Islam affords
her the freedom, liberty, equality, justice, her mental and physical well
being is simply fooling herself. She is simply surrendering herself to a
pack of wolves and the only destination these wolves will send her is to
hell. That is for sure. The sad thing is that the hell that these Mullahs
will send her will be in this world. She does not have to die to go there.
She has to endure the suffering of hell-fire after the Mullahs have stripped
her of her human dignity, denied her the absolute minimum basic human rights
(like freedom of movement, freedom to choose her attire, freedom
of security from an abusive spouse) and reduced her to nothing but a
piece of female meat then to a piece of fertile crop field and eventually to
a hapless destitute.

Even the prophet said that majority of women will be in
hell.

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: The Prophet said " I was shown the
Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women who were
ungrateful" (Sahih Bukhari 1:28)

This is what is reserved for women by Allah!


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