Allama Sayyed Ali Fadlallah patronized the honouring celebration for girls who had reached the age of religious obligation, held by Al-Mabarrat Charitable Association in the Al-Zahraa hall at the Al-Hassanain complex in Haret Hreik.
The celebration included several artistic segments presented by Al-Mabarrat's students, then came a speech by Allama Sayyed Fadlallah in which he praised \u201cthe importance of the hijab and its role in strengthening important Islamic values\u201d, warning against \u201cthe dominance of the mentality and the complex of the age of ignorance in some examples in our societies with regard to woman - as when someone, when a daughter is born to him, says: \u2018I do not discriminate, but the news of her is troubling'\u201d, and pointing to \u201cthe reflection of that on the question of reward and punishment, so that the boy's offence is forgiven while the girl's offence exposes her to the most hideous kinds of punishment\u201d.
He asked: \u201cHow can Al-Zahraa be a model for us and then we proceed to this differentiation and discrimination between our sons and our daughters?\u201d, criticizing the idea some hold about the system of distributing inheritance, \u2018to the male the like of the share of two females', and pointing out that it is \u201cpart of an arrangement that took into account the responsibilities of spending that Islam placed on the man\u201d. He called for \u201cfollowing Al-Zahraa as the best remedy for the governing Eastern mentality, which makes the man the master whatever his failures and works at marginalizing woman whatever her accomplishments\u201d.
He called for \u201crespecting woman and appreciating her, and for replying to those who cast doubt on her capacities and to those who look at her with a demeaning look, who deplore her taking up public affairs and her participation in any social field - so that we see examples of people who judge woman to be weak and hold, for example, that she is not qualified to drive a car; and we see some who make her hear the filthiest expressions, as though the young man never errs in anything. The dangerous paradox is when woman believes this and judges herself to be weak.\u201d
He continued: \u201cThe examples are many. Count the number of women in parliament or in the municipalities whose elections we are approaching. Why is room not made for woman to arrive? Why does she not get her opportunity? Even in the associations and institutions, and among those who are open towards her, the utmost that woman's role can be is her isolation within a women's framework and women's committees and women's bodies only, without her taking up other affairs in politics, culture or planning. Yes, there is a making-absent of woman; and it is not enough for her to be present in the media as a form - which in many cases is a restriction and a debasement of her role rather than a release of it, because it makes her captive to the camera and its demands, to the demands of stardom and to the game of appearance, all of which we see diminishing her rather than releasing her.\u201d
He called for \u201cpurifying some texts that wholly contradict the Holy Quran, especially those texts that are weak in their chain of transmission\u201d, praising \u201cthe experience of Bilqis, who took charge of the kingdom of Sheba, and whose experience and wisdom the Quran immortalized as against the arrogance of men\u201d.
He concluded: \u201cTaking Al-Zahraa as a model has its consequences at the level of awareness, education, building and motivation. The Messenger of God came with Islam to strengthen the humanity of the human being, man and woman, and woman had a share in that he put a stop to her being buried alive. And he who puts a stop to the burying alive of a girl when she is small cannot legislate the burying alive of her energies, her thought and her opinion when she is grown. For this reason there was Khadija the wife and the partner, and there was Al-Zahraa, who set out and took up public affairs in the fields of men, addressing them and having them benefit from her knowledge of the Messenger of God.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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