Monday, February 11, 2019

Excellent video from Dr. Shabir Ally on needing to throw away anti-women hadiths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6XE0fWJus&lc=z22esdsgaqqngjfdnacdp432nzvfdxmsad1tfljgiw5w03c010c.1549871618368775

I have talked about anti-women hadiths before and how I find it impossible that the Prophet pbuh could say such comments about women. I find it so strange that these anti-women hadiths (which by the way came hundreds of years after the death of the Prophet) are "authenticated" by scholars who came even more later after hadiths arose. I find it so strange how some of the best hadith scholars are still alive or died recently. How can they authenticate hadiths as true? Makes no sense to me.

I have been studying hadiths for a long while. I find it ironic that new anti-women hadiths just randomly pop up out of nowhere in response to progressive movements about women, or progressive females saying something that conservative Muslim men don't like. It literally seems like these conservative Muslims just make up their own hadith and then say it is "authentic". I just posted recently about a false hadith that is circulating about women. Why? Because when there are so many anti-women hadiths, it becomes easy to make up new ones.

Another thing that I have been thinking about is that why are there so many anti-women hadiths when we see Muslim men are far more likely to be murderers, rapists, thieves, abusive, and more likely to not be practicing Muslims or even atheists? Yet so many hadiths put women at fault? Makes no sense, again. 

There is a popular social media page called "Hadith of the Day". I've been following it for years on Facebook (since 2007). I have noticed they never post anti women hadiths. And this page is not a "liberal" or "progressive" one. It is a conservative one, with a vast majority of conservative followers. Yet even they know it is nonsensical and not worthwhile to post anti female hadiths.

There is no way that respect of Muslim women will rise if these anti-women hadiths are painting women as evil and inferior. This is why countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi, Iraq, and Somalia have horrible cultures. You have toxic masculinity mixed with these teachings of hadiths (every conservative Muslim culture obsessively follows anti-women hadiths. This is why you see little boys on Facebook or Youtube writing anti-women hadiths against older women). No respect of women can exist. It's like giving a serial killer a gun but telling him to "respect" everyone and not kill them. Is it going to work? Nope. Anti-women hadiths shape the mentality of men in these countries. It causes them to act like little children who are arguing which gender is better.

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