Imam Al Ghazali: was he the father of Talibanism?
Dr Azly Rahman
WOMEN ..
and MEN …
(a summary below shared with me)
here’s what the Islamic scholar Imam Al Ghazali said about women. I hope scholars out there would care to comment. And I hope women should debunk Al Ghazali and denounce his views …
” … Al-Ghazali is considered to be the greatest Muslim scholar ever. He is called “The Defender of Islam”. He has written around 1,000 books in the Fiqah of The Islamic Human Rights Commission .
In his well-renown Book, “The Revival Of The Religious Sciences” Al-Ghazali defines women role:
– She should stay at home and get on with her spinning
– She can go out only in emergencies
– She must not be well-informed nor must she be communicative with her neighbors and only visit them when absolutely necessary
– She should take care of her husband and respect him in his presence and his absence and seek to satisfy him in everything
– She must not leave her house without his permission and if given his permission she must leave secretly
– She should put on old clothes and take deserted streets and alleys, avoid markets, and make sure that a stranger does not hear her voice, her footsteps, smell her or recognize her
– She must not speak to a friend of her husband even in need
– Her sole worry should be her “al bud” (reproductive organs) her home as well as her prayers and her fast (starvation for Allah)
– If a friend of her husband calls when her husband is absent she must not open the door nor reply to him in order to safeguard her “al bud” (vagina)
– She should accept what her husband gives her as sufficient sexual needs at any moment
– She should be clean and ready to satisfy her husband’s sexual needs at any moment
The great theologian then warns all men to be careful of women for their “guile is immense and their mischief is noxious; they are immoral and mean spirited”.Like a true Muslim cleric Ghazali states “It is a fact that all the trials, misfortunes and woes which befall men come from women” [3.2]
