Page 267 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

return home is reluctant to be responsive to
her husband's amorous advances. This is the

result of the visit of a woman to markets and

social gatherings to say the least. (Imam Sha-
rani, al-Uhud al-Qubra)

The description of women in the false hadiths in question is an
abnormal creature, literally one of an animal that cannot control
itself anywhere it goes, that tends to act in the light of its own
instincts rather than out of faith in, and fear of, God and that there-
fore needs to be kept in check by various precautions. Such a

description is exactly that the fanatics have of women.

What concerns us is the perspective of the Qur'an, not that of the
fanatic. The Muslim woman described in the Qur'an fears God. She
therefore knows very well how she should dress in which environ-
ment, how to protect her chastity and honor, and how to behave in
the shops, at the market and during celebrations. The Qur'an is all
she needs to know. She has no need of a man to tell her in order to

know that, nor to tell her what to wear or eat. It is God Who will
decide, not a mortal man. Men are given no such authority or license
anywhere in the Qur'an. Men are given no privileges or attributes to
allow them to claim that they possess such rights anywhere in the
Qur'an. Since God addresses female believers in the Qur'an in the

same way that He does male believers, a woman will see and under-
stand what our Lord says to her in the Qur'an and strive to act on it
in the most perfect way.

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