The Islamic Ministry’s Fiqh Academy has declared that women are not allowed to perform marriages or lead a marriage ceremony according to Islam, and therefore cannot be a judge when performing marriages.
The declaration was announced by the President of Fiqh Academy and Islamic Minister Dr Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari, together with eight other scholars of the academy.
The Fiqh Academy explained that the Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) had ruled that woman could not perform a marriage ceremony herself, and nor could she perform the marriage of another woman.
The wife of Prophet Mohamed (PBUH), Ummulmu’mineen Aisha, Ali and Abu Hurairath had also said that women could not perform marriages, the Academy explained, adding that all the companions of the Prophet (PBUH) also agreed that woman could not perform marriages.
Furthermore, the Fiqh Academy said that as marriages were in the hands of judges, it was contrary to Islamic Sharia for a woman to be in such a position.
Despite the fact that some religious scholars disagreed as to whether women could perform marriages,the Academy said it was inclined to side with the majority of scholars who had ruled this was inappropriate.
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) recently appointed judges to the High Court, including Dr Azmiraldha Zahir, the first woman to be appointed to such a position. Member of the commission Sheikh Shuaib Abdurahman voted against her appointment on the grounds of her gender, arguing that females were not permitted to deal with many of the issues required of a judge under Islam.
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Whose version of Islam?
Yes, of course they would want that. To keep all women in letter boxes, kissing hubbies toes.
But is that how we want Maldives future to be??
Really guys?
This is taking things too far. There is no ruling anywhere in the Qur’an that says a woman cannot be a judge. The opinion that men have responsibility over women is one that does no justice to Islam, nor to mankind.
In today’s world, women have avenues to protection. They have avenues to education and contribution to social, economic, and political development. The view that “women are not permitted to deal with many of the issues required of a judge under Islam” is a false notion. Islamic jurisprudence is based on precedent dating back to the founding fathers of each of the four Madhabs. But their reasoning does not apply today, and many scholars within each of these Madhabs now acknowledge this reality and have worked to make allowances for it.
This is the just one more step in the road to implementing conservative interpretations of Shari’a. A woman is more capable than a man to acknowledge another woman’s vows and duties. No man has more authority over any woman than any woman has authority over any man. The double standard is not consistent with the spirit of the Quran and the spirit in which Shari’a was originally created.
This ban is simply not acceptable.
Anything said according to Islam is taking things too far. Unacceptable. Degrading.( This list can go on..)On www.minivannewsarchive.com
Islam emphasises the ethical equality and humanity of men and women. We dont see it that way in our society. Eventhough Qur’an, Hadith literature, and fiqh (jurisprudence)form the basis of Islam - these sources have been interpreted only by Muslim men who have arrogated to themselves the task of defining the role and status of women in society. And the world of thought and learning, Islamic theology has remained essentially a male preserve.
@Jeffrey Salim Waheed,
the ban might not be acceptable for you.. As far as I know you do not have any tertiary level qualification in the field of islamuc education.. Please leave this type of issues to islamic scholars.. I believe Fiqh Council is more than capable to handle this kind of issues - There are very qualified scholars in the Fiqh Council including the well-known Melbourne University Professor Abdulla Saeed..
Whats the legal status of this academy, how can they issue a binding declaration. There is no mention of this acadamy or council in our constitution. Only the Supreme Court can rule on such a thing.
@Ahmed, just because a Saeed is a member does not make it any Supreme or holier than any other hassan kalo or dhon kalo being on it
Grade 9 Islam textbook, page. 121
translated.
"Ainbaku ikhthiyaaru kurun :how to choose a wife
Ainbaku ihkthiyaaru kurumugai belevey maigandu sifa thakakee :Qualities to consider in choosing a wife
1) dheen veri kamaai khulguge heyokan: religiousness and kindness of character
2) reethikan: beauty
3) hasabaai nasabu: family background and clan
4) mudhaaverikan": wealth
Well women! This is what we are told. So if we hope that the male marriage judges will run a checklist for us and stop any marriages that do not meet the above conditions. We cannot have a female marrying us because she may not follow the above rules.
@Ahmed.
You cannot equate medicine to religion.
If one do not need a tertiary level education to be a follower of Islam, one does not need that to interpret what is in Islam.
In other words you do not need to have a qualification to say "No, that is not what it means in the Quruan."
Quran says men and women are equal which means they are equal and not less.
Every one is after the Throne.... Even that Fareed guy.. hehehehe.. what a joke this is..
“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought and the
freedom to communicate opinions and expression in a
manner that is NOT CONTRARY TO ANY TENETS OF ISLAM” says article 27 of our constitution.
so, keep that in mind when you post your comments here.
Three things:
1. Islamci Sharia and Usul al Fiqh are both human interpretations of Quruan and Hadhith. Hadhith is transmitted by just one person across each generation and therefore is totally unreliable.
2. Islamic Sharia and Usul al Figh are the views or interpretation of certain people who lived in the past at a certain period and their interpretations are subjective to the times they lived.
Lets take a look:
632 - Prophet Mohammed passes away
719 - First project of collection and compilation in writing of Hadhith (Ibn Syihabaz-Zuhuri)under the government of the Khalifa Umar bin Abd al- Aziz
796 - The earliest book of Hadith that is still extant today (al-Muwatt')
Malik bin Anas
879 - The most valid collection of hadith consisting only of Hadhith considered authentic (The Sahih of Bukhary)
1277 - The most important commentary on Muslim's collection of hadhith. (Sharh Sahih Muslim)
2011 - today
3. Quruan and Hadhith do NOT provide all the laws required for human life in a modern society.
Tell me, on what basis can you justify a woman cannot perform a marriage ceremony? Tell me how the fact that a man or a woman conducted the ceremony would matter to a marriage of a couple?
You only have one answer to that which is the religious scholars who lived some 7 centuries ago said that a woman cannot perform ceremonies.
Those scholars based their interpretation on what they thought was how things were before 632. When doing so they were looking through the lenses of the times they lived.
For those who believe in Hadhith, I’d like to remind you that when someone once asked the Prophet who is the most honored person to him the prophet replied its the mother. The man repeated the question 3 times and the last time only he said its the father.
So how come the authority of mothers who are women are undermined so much in the Islamic Sharia and Islamic Jurisprudence?
If you believe Hadhith you should know that the Prophet’s beloved wife Aisha is said to be the top expert on Islamic Jurisprudence.
And yet, you people say women cannot be Qazis and Judges and cannot perform marriage ceremonies?
The conditions, the environment and the times has changed to a huge extent between the time of the Prophet and today. The way people think have changed.
What has not changed is the so called religious scholars to accommodate the changes that has taken place and consider how people can live with the values that Prophet Mohamed taught us.
Why can’t each member of the Fiqh Academy order a camel and ride on it instead of riding a bicycle, motorbicyle or a car.
Why can't you just stick to the diet in 632 and say its the Sunnah. I'm sure dates and goats’ milk are available today. You guys should not use gas and electric ovens to cook you food. They were not around in 632.
Why are you using toothpaste and modern medicine which also has alcohol in it?
Why are you using mobile phones and mega phones and radios and TVs and computers? They were not there during the Prophet’s time.
And that’s when I say it is there in the Quruan that Quruan is not for a particular time or a particular place.
People who distort Quruan will burn in Hell!
Maldivians and their stupid superiority complex! what do these Maldivians think they are? when they go to a hospital they argue with the doctor, when they go to a shop they argue with the shopkeeper in a classroom they argue with the teacher/lecturer in office they argue with their boss. seriously what is this???
Are all the maldivians experts in ALL the things and know about everything?
now see the fun, when a highly learned group of scholars decided something, immediately they started arguing! this is just too much...
ashamed to be called a Maldivian myself
@ Baazu on Mon, 31st Jan 2011 6:32 PM
"Whose version of Islam?"
the correct version of islam
@ Ali on Mon, 31st Jan 2011 6:38 PM
Thats what you want and what you dream of.
What we want is to live according to islam.
I declare red is the new green
@ al on Mon, 31st Jan 2011 7:25 PM
yeah, you are absolutely right. especially in this website where they deliberately try to tarnish the image of islam.
I'll give you an example, in an article about a future management coming to IGMH, during the initial comment someone posted something insulting on islam, this was countered and some others went on against islam and others for islam, all this time the topic was IGMH!! later i saw one comment from someone in future IGMHs management also, and he/she seemed extremely disturbed, i think he/she was even frightened to come to maldives!
This is the norm in this website, an article appears, like, lets say a road traffic accident, a person initially commenting will write some insult to islam and after that it is a like a crusade vs jihad. All of this under the topic which has nothing to do with religion at all!!
I think its just a deliberate policy.
@ Kanzu on Mon, 31st Jan 2011 9:39 PM
If you have so much doubt regarding islam why dont you go and clarify them with a learned person in private instead of writing it all here? Is your motive to misguide people? If so, you are doing an evil thing which you have to answer in the Akhirath.
I strongly condemn minivan news for publishing all these anti-islam things in their website. Maldivian muslims will never accept that. I do hope the authorities take the strongest possible action against it soon.
What is your level of religious education? Didnt your teachers or parents teach you anything? Did you even attend school? If you had, then the Maldivian Islamic studies curriculum would have answered majority if not all of your questions. If for some reason you missed it, just go through the “Dheenee tharubiyathu foy” of grade 9,10,11 & 12.
There are big big chapters written regarding your questions. It is written in a very easy and understandable way & when I studied whenever I had a doubt I just raise my hand and the teachers would come and explain it nicely. That’s why I don’t have any doubt regarding my faith, its rock solid because I was raised with a strong foundation. I am really sad that you missed that opportunity & I’m rather concerned about you. Why? because of the severe punishments which awaits the non-belivers.
There is a hotline in the islamic ministry where people can ask their queries to scholars. Get the number from directory en-query and call and discuses, rather than being left out in dark.
I am not an expert on religion, so I don’t know whether i should attempt to answer you, because it is a risky business.
But i will try my best, i kindly do request that further doubts regarding religion is privately discussed with an expert in the field.
1- Hadhith is not compiled by only one scholar there are multiple sources for one origin. There is a scientific methodology of sorting and authenticating the hadhith. These scholars would travel large distances to meet the source and take the hadith, and using their methodology to verify it. Today also we can see the chain of sequence of scholars who narrated a particular hadith. But mind you, all these scholars are very good people with excellent memory (many of them had learnt Holy Quran at a very young age) and they lived in one of the best generation of time. Attributing a lie to the holy prophet (peace be upon him) is a great sin which no muslim will do. Hadhiths are one of the best preserved words after the holy quran because Allah has promised to safeguard islam of all corruptions till the end of time.
2. Islamic sharia is very vast legal legislature, the rules are taken from the Holy Quran, authentic hadith, Ijma and Qiyas.The fundamental ground rules of shariah are set and fixed. The things which you have written about it are false.
3. It is Quran, Sunnah, consensus of the Muslim jurists (ijma), and analogical reasoning (qiyas) which completes a fully compatible way of life for muslims now and then. All of this together show us the way to live in a modern society.
Women and men are created in a very different manner both biologically and physically.
You can as well ask why beards grow only on men and not in women. and why only women bear children while men dont. because of these differences can you go out and shout about the discrimination of men and women? no.
If you believe that women in western countries as being liberated. You are simply wrong. They are just degraded in most cases.
Women has menstrual periods once a month. something men don’t have. During this time she is excused from daily prayer, fasting, reading Holy Qur'an and doing other religious duties. Do you know that Qazis and judges have to perform their duty after performing Wuldhu. During a court session a Qazi may have to quote from the holy Quran. A women acting as a Qazi, having her menstural period, cannot do either of this, (quote from the Quran, perform Wuldu) effectively failing to deliver justice.
The role of women are never undermined in Islam, infact "paradise is under our moms feet", so how can we undermine her? "The best person among you is the person who treat his wife the best" so how can we undermine our wife? "Paradise is guaranteed to the parent who righteously bought up her daughter" so how can we undermine our daughters? All these things which i have written in inverted commas are what islam tells us to do.
Tell me another religion which deals with women in such gentle ways.
On the other hand, in islam its compulsory for men to fight in wars, financially provide for his family, etc.. While its only mandatory for women to do that. Oh how nice of the religion!
About your other questions about camels, bicycles, etc.. Hey muslims can use all of them. Islam is compatible with modern times the same way it was compatible in the ancient times. And it will surely be compatible in the future also. Because it is Allah's religion and Allah knows past, present and future.
The religion is a beauty for those who truly follow it.
I guess with my limited knowledge I have tried to covey my message to you, may Allah be my witness on the Day of Judgment.
If I have mistakenly written something wrong in a religious point of view, i hope someone better versed in religion can correct me. wallahu aulam.
Pls. Kanzu, & others, if you have further doubts meet a scholar and ask him, instead of trying to misguide others.
When you have a stomachache you go to a doctor because they are experts on that field. Similarly with doubts regarding religion, its best to consult the experts on the field (i.e. scholars) who had studied it for many years
ok.
some of the ways to indicate that a person to be a disbeliever include rejection of the authentic sunnah and devine law- shariya.
http://www.ahya.org/amm/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=144
The collection of hadith was a meticulous and thorough process that began right at the time of Prophet (peace be upon him). and they have been very well preserved. infact Sahihul Buhari & muslim are the most authentic books for muslims after holy Quran. Hundreds of scholars have worked diligently to establish a scientific methodology of sorting and authenticating the traditions that can be safely attributed to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Islamic law (shariah) covers all aspects of life, from matters of state, like governance and foreign relations, to issues of daily living. The Qur’an defines hudud as the punishments for five specific crimes: ziney, false accusation of ziney, consumption of alcohol, theft, and highway robbery. The Qur’an and Sunnah also contain laws of inheritance, marriage, and restitution for injuries and murder, as well as rules for fasting, charity, and prayer.. Islamic scholars (known as ulema) have elaborated systems of law on the basis of these rules and their interpretations.
Fiqh, or “jurisprudence”, is defined as the knowledge of the practical rules of the religion. The method Islamic jurists use to derive rulings is known as usul al-fiqh (“principles of jurisprudence”). According to Islamic legal theory, law has four fundamental roots, which are given precedence in this order: the Qur’an, the Sunnah, the consensus of the Muslim jurists (ijma), and analogical reasoning (qiyas).
All of these has been thoroughly thought in both O’level and A’level islamic education. it is sad that the person commenting as kanzu who dont have these knowledge/education & being terribly misguided tries to misguide others.
its more sad that minivan news, being a registered newspaper fails to follow the laws of the country by publishing those anti-islamic comments.
Maldives 21 century welcome to the era of human freedom speculation
the person who commented above as Kanzu has committed the sin of kufr. He has openly denied islamic shariya and hadhith, and hence commited the greatest sin of all. we advise him to remember the hell fire and to revert back to religion.
It is against the constitution of Maldives to express any view contrary to islam. any forum doing this is breaking the law of the country. we kindly advise the people running this minivan news website to take off the comment, or else we, the muslims of maldives will lodge complaints to maldives police service, islamic ministry of maldives, maldives media council and other concerned legal and government authorities. Your scheme of distorting islam and creating division in our country has gone a little too far. and we have been tolerating this for a bit too long.
Muslims are always patient, but our patience also have a limit. we cant just sit back when our faith is been unfairly targeted over and over again by this websites selective nature of news reporting and its publications of opinions and articles by openly anti-islam people like Yaameen Rasheed, Hilath Rasheed, Aishath Ania, and a bunch of others. this websites comment section has also been misused by those and similar kind of people who openly insult islam.
we can understand that this website is run by direct funding from missionary groups from abroad with people who pose themselves as reporters coming from them. we advise a bit of caution from them and to respect our laws – which is not a big deal to ask for.
If you donot, then a repeat of that incident triggered by the publication of the”homosexual letter” can be repeated but this time with worse consequences.
so please respect our laws and our faith.
we will not take any responsibility which may result to your people resulting from the publication of these anti-islamic, unlawful things in your website. please take that also into your consideration,.
"The Fiqh Academy explained that the Prophet Mohamed (salah laahu alaihi wasalam) had ruled that woman COULD NOT perform a marriage ceremony herself, and nor could she perform the marriage of another woman.
Ummulmu’mineen Aisha, Ali and Abu Hurairath had also said that women COULD NOT perform marriages, the Academy explained, adding that all the companions of the Prophet (salah laahu alaihi wasalam) also agreed that woman COULD NOT perform marriages.
Furthermore, the Fiqh Academy said that as marriages were in the hands of judges, it was CONTRARY to Islamic Sharia for a woman to be in such a position"
ALL THE PEOPLE COMMENTING ABOVE WHO DOUBTED THE FIQH ACADEMY, WHAT MORE REASON DO YOU NEED???
The prophet, salahlaahu alaihiwasalam, & all the sahaabaa all agreed that women canot perform marriages.
So what is there to argue and make a big fuss about? Do you people expect to know more about islam than our prophet (sala laahu alaihi wasalam) and his sahaabah??? naooz billah...
I do hope that in your ignorance you dont do something stupid. Because what you say can say can make you loose your faith.
Well the difference is can we believe a book created by a Man, on heresay to be authentic? to be 100 percent correct?
Yes Bukhari and all other Hadith collecters might have had the best of intentions, but they are human beings after all, prone to mistakes.
Quran is there, the word of god, the one book that is authentic and will remain unchanged forever.
Quran is the ultimate source in Islam. Those who believe and say things contrary to whats in the Quran, is doing a grave sin.
Any Hadith that contradicts whats in Quran should be immediately considered invalid.
All these people who know little, little, basic things about islam pretending to be grand scholars and denying what the muslim jurists in Fiqh acadamy are telling. I dont know whether to laugh or to cry..
to me its like you telling a cardiac surgeon that he is doing the surgery wrongly and taking over from him and trying to do it yourself. (in this case in ends pretty badly with you killing the patient and even cutting yourself!!)
In Saudi Arabia, females are not even allowed to drive. I think we will be implementing that law soon.
This was a decision taken by Maldivian Scholars. I wonder what other scholars abroad (not wahhabis) have to say about such a case, so that the whole thing would become clearer.
@ ladhun-bo-halaaku on Mon, 31st Jan 2011 9:51 PM
good comment. hehe
maldivian + little knowledge = argue, argue, argue with everyone abt everything + have some false self confidence of knowing everything!
you can do the math yourself in the case of secularists. (thses ppl already think they r better than others with all of their human rights, womens rights, & all the other rights...) well when that factor is added in the above equation the result is super-duper superiority complex which is totally intolerable.
i guess in maldives there is no need of becoming a professional.
There is no need to study medicine for 6 years and become a doctor, because maldivians alredy know diseases n its cures, and they can treat on their own.
there is no need to be a teacher, because maldivians know better than teachers, so they can teach their kids/themselves.
No need to go to an foreign country & study for like 10 years and become a religious scholar & work in a fiqh academy, because maldivians already know islam better and can make out their own juristictions.
@ The Balrog on Tue, 1st Feb 2011 12:25 AM
What other scholars are you talking about? Amina Wadhoodh? Salmaan Rusdhee?
Women and men are not equal. Just trying to equate them artificially is nothing other than stubbornness! The fiqh academy was correct. It has nothing to do with sexism. Islam has very definite rules and the rules are just rules.
i declare the Fiqh Academy a female entity and thus its ruling false and of no value in any form or use.
we call this SSDS : Same Shi%^ Different Smell ! first they did not want women to become judges next , when the over whelming majority of Maldivians wanted it , now they say women can only sit in cases of traffic? this is the mullahs trying to stop/delay progress once again. dont fall for this ppl . and alot was mentioned in grade 8 9 10 text books, ppl this is the point. text books can be written and re-written ....by ppl , its just ideas of someone, just cause something is in ink does not make it right !!
Does Quran or Hadith give Fiqh Academy the power to decide such a ruling? No, it was Maldivian constituion. And the same constituion prohibits such rulings based on gender. So the whole thing is illegal. And don't try to argue it was a Dhanna Beykalunge Ijmaa. Religion does not allow some muslims to separate themselves under the veil of a "country", form their own Fiq'h group and then issue religious ruling for just the one group and not to other Muslims. So do not argue this. If the ruling is based on their religious authority, it should be directed at all Muslims. As soon as they direct a ruling at Maldivians ONLY, then it is a constitutional issue and not a religious one)
Things were not as rosy as you Islamist appologists says after the death of Mohamed, the aftermath of Mohameds death resulted in fights between Muslims led by Ali and Mohameds wife Aisha. which became known as the battle of the camel. So dispute exists then and as it exists now between Muslims. So why not we use our brains to determine what is wrong and right and what may be wrong and what may be right or what can never be right and can never be wrong.
I call the president to fire all the members of Figh Academy and appoint new members such as Yameen Rasheed (yaamyn), Hilath Rasheed, Aniya and Veliziney to the academy.
Until 2007, women were not permitted to be judges either. Under Maldivian interpretation of Islam.
And then, one fine day, (under pressure?), the appointed-by-President-Gayoom's-decree Judicial Service Commission, did appoint 3 women judges.
This Commission was then chaired by Chief Justice of the High Court and Head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Sheikh Mohamed Rasheed Ibrahim.
Ironically, Sheikh Mohamed Rasheed Ibrahim. had earlier published a book declaring "being a Man" as a qualifier for Judge, and deciding women are barred, under Islam, from being a judge. All written under the "authority" of Islamic scholar.
Was there a new revelation in 2007?
I wonder if this is a religious or an economic decree?
Marrying off people is quite a lucrative business carried out by men. Perhaps the only one with excellent tips, a man earning sometimes as much as a 1000+ as "gift" for conducting a marriage.
They (the men) can't stand losing this extra income to the girls, can they?
After all, we all live in a loalaari-counting world, where every penny, however gained, adds to status!
psychological research suggests Women judges sentence more harshly than men judges, women judges will sentence more harshly because they are more threatened by challenges to norms and laws than men judges and that gender-of-judge variation will be more evident in cases involving less serious (e.g., property crime) as opposed to more serious or violent criminality.
sentencing decisions of women judges are contextualized more by defendant characteristics such as race, sex, and age and by defendant's prior record. evidence therefore suggest women judges are somewhat more punitive and somewhat more particularistic in their sentencing decisions. we should hope therefore we do not face a women judge at court.
Aadan on Tue, 1st Feb 2011 12:12 AM
"Bukhari and all other Hadith collecters are, prone to mistakes"
Blindly, how can you make such accusations? Have you even seen a sahhi beuhaaree hadhith book? All the hadhiths have their chain of raavees. and are authenticated by grand scholars in the specific field of Hadith ilmu.
The sayings/ actions of Prophet muhamed (salahlaahu alaihi wasalam) are not of his own. It is under the direction of Allah.
So all these people who are denying Hadhith and sunnah, which is the second pillar in islam, are denying the faith of islam itself and are becoming murthadh.
How can minivan news allow such comments being published over and over again in this website, when our constitution says that nothing against the tenets of islam can be expressed in maldives.
better change the name of this site from minivan news to muruthadh news.
Females ARE able to perform weddings, fact. Use your logic, from time to time.
However, as long as you refer to a 1400 years old book, it's probably better to let the men do the job - just to be on the safe side... I guess women during their menstruation "cannot be trusted", right?
@ ladhun-bo-halaaku
Nice!!
There is NO authentic Hadhith.
What is being compiled and studied and scrutinized as authentic Hadhith is just what ONE person heard what the Prophet said.
Qiyas, Ijmau, etc is done by mortals, human beings and what they say are affected by how they think, who they are, the times and environment they lived.
Of course men doesn't produce breast milk and deliver babies and women can't produce sperms.
That's about all the difference between men and women and the rest of the 'differences' are argued and supported with evidence for and against.
Such differences differ in different parts of the world and across different times.
And, FYI, there's not only men and women in this world. There are others who can't define whether they are men or women. And they did not choose to come to this world that way.
You've said that women cant be Qazis and judges because Qazis and Judges have to do ablution and recite verses from Quruan while they work as judges and women cant do ablution during their menstruation?
I think people who hold such beliefs are insulting Allah and his Prophet.
You know women are excused from fasting, praying, etc during their menses. Why were not women totally excused all their lives from performing these rituals since they have their menses and they can't do ablution during that time?
If you say ablution is something so important for a Qazi or a judge, why can't women preside in a courtroom when she is not menstruating?
Do you think women in Mecca and Medina in 632 would have enough water and the facilities to keep themselves clean like we do now in this modern world?
Could you tell me whether women in Mecca and Medina had tampons, Sanitary napkins like Whispers, Kotex, Laurier, Stayfree available now?
If women are dumb, weak, illogical, hysterical, irrational, temperamental, why do you say it's the mother who is more appropriate to stay at home and bring children up?
Why not the father?
You know what, you can't answer these questions and that is why you want others not to speak out.
Quruan encourages freedom of thought and expression when it says 'Thiyabai meehun visna fikuru kuraashey'repeatedly.
The book doesn't say human beings should be lemons.
When you speak of women's freedom we fail to note why western countries were forced to adopt this ideology and the repercussion we face today in our society. Women are used like multitasking androids and they couldn't give the support needed in bringing up a morally good children. As a result mad people with guns are running on our backyards. Islam does support equality but it doesn't mean every one have to do the same job. Their are roles for each one. You can't challenge the law of creation. Either follow it or be destroyed. If you see around the globe you will see how we are loosing the freedom and peace required to live a normal life.
Women cannot be trusted at all. So sue me..1400 years old book is still make sense than the book starts with "B"
Kanzu on Tue, 1st Feb 2011 10:04 AM
since, you talked so passionately about bi-gender people, is it wrong to assume that you are one of them? so why dont you cut off your penis and become a women and be gazi, magistrate,judge, etc,etc.. and go on marrying women, then again women has the right to marry women also, right? so marry both of them... since you know each and every thing in the world that's to know.
@ HassanK on Tue, 1st Feb 2011 5:48 AM
since you went on ranting about constitution, feast your eye on this, will ya?
“The Maldives is a sovereign, independent, democratic
Republic BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM, and is a
unitary State, to be known as the Republic of the
Maldives.” says article 2 of the constitution
“(a) The religion of the State of the Maldives is ISLAM.
ISLAM SHALL BE THE BASIS OF ALL THE LAWS OF THE MALDIVES.
(b) NO LAW CONTRARY TO ANY TENETS OF ISLAM SHALL BE ENACTED IN THE MALDIVES” says article 10 of the constitution.
“Despite the provisions of article 9(a) a NON MUSLIM MAY NOT BECOME A CITIZEN of the
Maldives.” says Article 9 of the Maldivian constitution.
and most important of all see this article:
“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought and the
freedom to communicate opinions and expression IN A MANNER THAT IS NOT CONTRARY TO ANY TENETS OF ISLAM” says article 27 of constitution.
so each and everyone who is writing agaist Quran, sunnah/hadhith, Ijma, and other islamic things are in fact going against the constitution of this country! I call upon the authorities to deal with these criminals in the harshest way possible.
a good reply from "Reply" on Mon, 31st Jan 2011 11:15 PM
nicely done! may Allah reward you for that.
but in my opinion its actually contentious answering those sort of people. some peoples hearts are sealed and any attempt to covey the truth is just a waste of time & effort.
It is like this, when an end-stage cancer patient has a heart attack, should we give CPR? opinion may differ, but i think, it will only prolong her death and its best to let her nicely go instead of CPR.
similarly, with stubborn-know-it all type of people like that barks, its best to ignore them.
Anni's crusade against Islam.
Hey, all these people hell bent on womens rights.. why cant we ever find a women as the roman catholic pope?
so why dont you people go to Vatican and fix that little problem?
@ Hashim on Tue, 1st Feb 2011 2:50 PM
If Anni is behind this, he is not only going against islam, but also going against his oath and the constitution (which is the highest treason).