The New Muslim Marriage Contract

August 11, 2008

This article was written for a leaflet given out at the event: ‘Launch of ‘The Muslim Marriage Contract’’ hosted by City Circle on 8th August in Abrar House:

http://www.thecitycircle.com/events_full_text2.php?id=521

The New (Western) ‘Islamic’ Marriage Contract

In western culture and social theory, men and women are legally exactly equal. The actually existing differences between a man and a woman are portrayed as not different to the issue of race.

Western theory casually ignores the importance of the concepts of femininity and masculinity as key psychological actors which serve to bind a couple together in a perfect and compassionate relationship, and thus treats the issue of family as no different to a partnership of two people without gender.

Furthermore, the self-sufficient individuality and self-centred culture in the west has created a society of people which not only shirk responsibility, but actually detest it! Into this milieu, the west has created a legal system which inhumanely ignores the physical and psychological differences between and man and a woman, and consequently ignores their psychological and physical needs with regard to the opposite sex.

 

The west’s androgynous culture has led marriages to become scenes of power struggle, conflicting interests and disfunctionality, to such an extent that half of all marriages either end in divorce or whether a storm of infidelity, neglect and even abuse!

 

In line with Western legal theory on the nature of a male and female, women are not in need of protection, so they do not need to be given away by a guardian, marriages are terminable by either the male or the female at whim, and the female may be granted access to the males financial assets even though she might of initiated the divorce unjustly.

 

So it is conspicuous, but not coincidental, that suddenly a new marriage contract for Muslims is being devised which, under the pretext of ‘guarantying greater harmony within Muslim marriages in Britain’, uncannily resembles Western legal opinions on the issue of marriage rights.

To discuss the points in depth, orthodox Islam grants the right to women to get a divorce if her Islamic rights are breached. If this is the case, she is are allowed alimony (financial recompense from the husband). But if the woman divorces her husband on her whim (e.g. shes is bored of him etc), she is not allowed to claim alimony – as this will be an injustice on the man if he is made to pay. If the man divorces his wife on whim, he MUST pay alimony, since she has been divorced for no good reason. This is the justice of Islam that the secularists seek to unravel and change into an image pleasing to the west!

Also, orthodox Islam and every single madhab has concurred with the irrefutable textual evidence, that the woman must have a wali (guardian) to give her away, and if she has none, she may choose a reputable sheikh (under Islamic law, the Caliph was the wali to women who had none). Having a wali, acts as a protection and prevents women from being abused (aka ‘played’ to coin a western term). To remove this protection from women, opens up any woman to being vulnerable to unserious and insincere suitors and will cause serious harm to society (as is already witnessed in the west).

 

Islam does not believe in equality of the sexes, but rather, Islam believes in equity. It acknowledges a man’s differences and a woman’s differences, and seeks to organise them in an enlightened manner so as to bring peace and fulfillment to both, in accordance with their purpose as created human beings.

 

“…and the male is not like the female…” [Quran 3:36]

“Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel (physically) the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women)” [Quran 4:34]

 

Furthermore, how does ‘ the role Muslim women play in modern societies’ create a different human environment then has been encountered before by Muslims 1400 years ago? When woman worked, taught and became scholars of hadith! Did Islam give exceptions for the Islamic rules of marriage then? The answer, much to the dismay of ‘modernist’ (aka secularist or status quoist) Muslims, is no.

“…And they (women) have rights similar to those (of men) over them in kindness, and men are a degree above them…” [Quran 2:228]

 

 

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A response to the Radical Middle Way event: Spiced Spare Ribs

August 10, 2008

This article was written for a leaflet given out at the event: ‘Spiced Spare Ribs’ hosted by the Radical Middle Way on 25th April in the London School of Economics.

http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/events.php?id=2&art=28

Non-Halal Spare Ribs: Does Western Values corrupt the Islamic Mindset?

 

The four highlighted questions raised by the Government funded secular organisation, the Radical Middle Way are:

Does British Islam need liberation from male leadership?

Is there a lack of ‘good Muslim men’ out there?

Is there a role for mothers in the ‘war against terrorism’?

What is the relationship between families and violent activism?

Islam is a way of life that came to liberate mankind from the darkness of ignorance to man’s purpose and his life’s relationship with his purpose. But the western governments seek to keep Muslim minds enslaved under a secularised ‘reformed’ Islam that can be moulded into whatever is convenient to it’s materialist tastes.

Therefore, it is not for us to use the term ‘British Islam’ like it is some different version of Islam, nor should we use a term given to us by the British Government. Rather, we should use the term ‘Muslim’, because the only thing of Islam connected to Britain is the residence of some of it’s 1.8 billion followers.

As for the call to ‘liberation’, it should be noted that the Western crusade for the ‘liberation of Muslim women’, has seen nothing but propaganda that portrays women who wear hijab as ‘oppressed’. It is then characterised by fashion shows and talks, pushing concepts that seek to define women who cover as veiled sexual objects requiring ‘expression’. Furthermore, those women that reject the Media and the government’s ‘persuasion’ become subject to sweeping bans on hijabs in schools. Indeed, Muslim women are need liberation, but it is liberation from the vicious attacks on their honoured Islamic identities and clothing by the West, and not the laws of Islam.

Islam has defined noble behaviour and the obligation to look after responsibilities, as essential obligations of a Muslim male believer. Conversely, Western attitudes and culture have created a self-centred, materialist outlook on life that naturally causes Men to have a sharp aversion to commitment, empathy and refined Islamic manners.

If we notice that Muslim male community is suffering from traits similar to what we can observe in western males, then it can be safely surmised that the cause of such afflictions is the western culture and mindset, upon the minds of Muslim males. It is because of the adoption of Western ideas that a lot of Muslim males now also possess the inability to handle responsibilities (to spouses), stay faithful and not flirt with other women at work. Adultery is the second highest cause of divorces in England after ‘unreasonable behaviour.

The solution is the positive rejection of western culture and ideas regarding Male and Female relations, the rejection of ‘traditional Asian’ culture which possess anti-Islamic practices and the affirmation amongst the Muslim community of the ideals, laws and solutions that Islam can give to solves their problems in life, marriage and relations with the opposite gender.

As for the causes of violent activism, one need only look towards British and American foreign policy to see very clear correlation between invasions, cluster bombing and torture on one hand, and violent reprisals committed in angry (but at times misguided) retaliation.

The question of the role for mothers in the ‘war on terrorism’ is a deeply sinister and sickening one, it suggests that if the mother does not imbue her child with western values, her son (or daughter – as terrorists are equal opportunity recruiters) will commit a violent suicide that kills and maims many others. This deliberately leaves out the question that should be asked: what is the role of mothers in the Islamic revival and awakening?

The answer to that question, lies in the seeking, teaching of knowledge and work to carry the call of Islam until the establishment of an Islamic state (Khilafah) that will give all Muslims, male or female the opportunity to fulfil their potential to the fullest capacity in the pursuit of their Deen.

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