Allaah The Almighty instructed Muslims to beware of deviants and the methods they follow to demolish the religion of Islam, and thus, He Says (what means): {And thus do We detail the verses, and [thus] the way of the criminals will become evident.} [Quran 6:55]
He also commanded His Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, to fight the hypocrites, saying (what means): {O Prophet, fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them.} [Quran 9:73]
Allaah The Almighty exposed the hypocrites in many chapters as in Al-Baqarah, An-Nisaa’, and At-Tawbah which was called the 'exposing chapter'. Some of the companions, may Allaah be pleased with them, said, “The chapter of At-Tawbah continued to be revealed [concerning hypocrites with verses starting with {And among them are those who…} [Quran 9: 49,58,61,75] until we thought that it would not leave [any one without exposing him].”
The chapter of Al-Ahzaab details the attitudes of the hypocrites during times of hardship. Allaah The Almighty named one of the chapters of the Quran after them: “Al-Munaafiqoon” i.e. The Hypocrites. No matter how the hypocrites hide themselves, surely Allaah The Almighty discloses whatever they conceal in their breasts and hearts. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {Or do those in whose hearts is disease think that Allaah would never expose their [feelings of] hatred? And if We willed, We could show them to you, and you would know them by their mark; but you will surely know them by the tone of [their] speech. And Allaah knows your deeds.} [Quran 47: 29-30]
Thus, the hypocrites are an exposed group; exposed by Allaah The Almighty and He reveals their hidden misdemeanors so that people will be aware of them and will not be deceived by them.
It is extremely important to be aware of that group, its methods in fighting the Ummah (Muslim nation), and its attempt to demolish the pillars of Islam. ‘Umar ibn Al-Khattaab, may Allaah be pleased with him, said, “Islam will be destroyed gradually when there would be Muslims who know nothing about Jaahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic era).” Hence, when people with anti-Islamic tendencies (similar to tendencies pertaining to Jaahiliyyah) come to destroy Islam, Muslims do not allow them to do so, because they know them and they are aware of their anti-Islamic attitudes.
It is, therefore, necessary to study the methods of secularists in corrupting the Ummah and particularly women, so that Muslims will avoid this evil that augers a great crisis that will befall the Ummah of Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam. It is also necessary for each Muslim to know that secularists are the greatest danger enclosing the Ummah, as they work to corrupt the Ummah and distance it from its religion.
Why do the secularists focus on women?
They concentrate on women because they realized the role of women in forming the Ummah and influencing society. They are certain that when they corrupt women and succeed in causing them to deviate, then it will be easy for them to demolish the fortresses of Islam and they will even enter them without facing the least resistance. The Zionists clearly say in their Protocols, “We have to win the women to our side, since if women extend their hands to us one day, we would win the case.”
Another archenemy of Islam said, "A glass (of alcohol) and a prostitute do to the Ummah of Muhammad more than what one thousand mortars would do, so drown it in the love of materialism and lusts.”
This is true, because when one single soldier goes down into a trench and resists with his gun, it is difficult to storm him until he dies. Hence, what do you think of an entire nation that defends itself, and instead of doing so, it becomes immersed in lusts, deviates from its religion and from the path of its glory, and thus, surrenders to the enemy without any resistance but rather accords the enemy a warm welcome and greets it with applause.
In a book on raising girls and Hijaab (Islamic covering), the author says that there is no barrier left against destroying the Muslim society – except that Muslim women undergo the transformation, or rather the corruption that has pervaded a vast number of Muslim men.
What is secularism and what is the ruling on it?
Secularism is originally meant to denote separating religion from other aspects of life. Accordingly, divine laws do not govern or interfere in social interactions, economic issues, politics, war and peace, pedagogy and education, and so on. It also corresponds with Irreligion, recognizing and dealing with only with tangible things while denying unseen phenomena and their contribution to the formation of life. In the West, people are allowed to entertain personal beliefs. However, it is not allowable to let religion influence the planning of the nation’s affairs. This epidemic was then transferred to the Muslim Ummah.
Secularism is more comprehensive in the Islamic perspective than in the Western perspective, in such a way that if a person calls for applying the entire Sharee‘ah (Islamic legislation) of Islam with exclusion to one issue that he rejects although being unanimously agreed-upon by Muslims or being an indisputably established religious fact, then such a person is a disbeliever and an apostate. For instance, if a person calls for applying the Sharee‘ah but, in terms of inheritance, he says that the woman’s share must be equal to that of the man, then such a person is a secularist under Sharee‘ah because he rejects a ruling which is indisputable in Islam. This is what we mean by secularism in the course of our writing.
In this sense, the ruling on secularism is that it designates major disbelief that takes one outside of the fold of Islam, because it means belying Allaah The Almighty and His Messenger, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam. It also denotes associating with Allaah The Almighty that for which He has not sent down any authority, because it refers judgment in some issues to other than Allaah The Almighty and in other issues to Him
Westernization
After the failure of some of their military expeditions, Western politicians developed a devilish idea that armies should not be involved in confrontations because they arouse severe reactions, and that they should exert efforts to get the Muslim countries to surrender to the Western culture and civilization willingly. This is how the idea of Westernization was developed, with the basis of blending the Muslim character with that of the Western character in such a way that the former does not see except through Western eyes, does not admire except what the West admires, renounces the values, beliefs, and morals that are derived from the Islamic Sharee‘ah (Islamic legislation), adopts this new Westernized religion, and is involved in the cycle of economic consumption that is promoted by the West.
Westernization programs try to serve a dual objective. On the one hand, they guard the benefits of colonialism by bridging the gap that separates the West from Muslims due to the difference in values and the bitterness that Muslims feel towards the occupiers of their countries whom Muslims are obliged by their religion to strive against. On the other hand, Westernization programs weaken the religious bond that gathers Muslims, and disperses their association that centers on the unity of thought and intellectual values, or more comprehensively, the unity of cultural values.
Thus, Westernization means blending the Ummah (nation) in such a way that it becomes a deformed nation which is a reproduction of the disbelieving Western nation. However, there is a difference between the two nations – the Western nation is the leader and ruler while the other nations are its humiliated submissive subjects which comply with its dictates. This is what Westernization means.
The Westernization of Muslim women is a part of a comprehensive scheme for Westernizing the Ummah in all its affairs. Dr. Muhammad Muhammad Husayn, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said,
Westernization programs rested on two main principles – as was held by the early imperialists:
First: Associating with allies and friends from among Muslims, empowering them, excluding opponents who object to their projects, hindering their progress, and distracting people from them by different means.
Second: Controlling educational programs as well as information and cultural systems in a way which they established by means of their allies, and directing such programs in a way that serves their objectives and supports their friendship.
Manifestations of Westernizing Muslim women:
• Intermixing between the two sexes in schools and workplaces:
In most countries, there are mixed schools and workplaces, with only a few exceptions. This is what the advocates of Westernization want because the more men and women meet, the more their instincts are aroused and opportunities for indulging in immorality takes place. This is especially so when women do not wear Hijaab (Islamic covering); there are multiple outlets of sexual motivation and people find it difficult to get married, in addition to weak religious commitment.
When the West fulfills its objective of corrupting women, the family will be afflicted with corruption and degradation, and the society in turn will be ruined from the inside, and thus, it will be easy prey.
If intermixing between sexes begins, it will never end except with women frequenting places of depravity and immorality, without adhering to Hijaab and modesty. This has already started occurring and continues to take place in many Muslim countries. Consider, how does this compare to the narration of Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, when he left the mosque and found men and women mingling in the street. He said, addressing women: “Draw back, for you must not walk in the middle of the road. Keep to the sides of the road.” Women used to keep so close to the wall that their garments would rub against it. [Abu Daawood] [Al-Albaani: Hasan]
• Tabarruj and Sufoor
Tabarruj means women’s exposure of their adornment to men to whom women are not permitted to show their adornment.
Sufoor means women’s exposure of parts of their body which they are not permitted to show to other than non-Mahrams (marriageable men).
It is rare to find a Muslim country that is devoid of Tabarruj and Sufoor. This is a very dangerous manifestation in the Ummah. In the past, women were modest and fitted the description of “dwellers of boudoirs”. This was not a social tradition. Rather, it stemmed from worshipping and obeying Allaah The Almighty. It is clear that the Sharee‘ah-compliant Hijaab is an inherent emblem of Islam. That is why Aa’ishah, may Allaah be pleased with her, said, “May Allaah have mercy upon the early immigrant women. When Allaah revealed {and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests} [Quran 24:31], they tore the edges of their waist sheets and covered their heads with them.” [Al-Bukhaari]
Therefore, the spread or decline of Hijaab is an indication of the Islamic awakening in society and of people’s devotion to the religion of Allaah The Almighty; and the spread of Hijaab annoys those falsifying hypocrites.
• Following fashion trends:
Nowadays, you see Muslim women imitating Western women with great alacrity. Even the way little girls are dressed follows Western fashions. Thus, you find girls who have reached the age of fifteen still wearing short clothes, marking one of the first steps of following Western fashions. When girls are stripped of modesty, they can easily respond to everything new.
Clothing is an important manifestation that distinguishes Muslim women; therefore, they were forbidden to imitate the disbelievers because this signifies an acceptance of their norms of behavior, removal of barriers and developing amicability between them. It is known that similarity of dress diminishes the distinction of what is good from what is bad and the distinction of Islam from disbelief, thus, facilitating the spread of falsehood and the concealment of its advocates.
Western fashion is rejected for several reasons, including:
• Imitating the disbelieving women: The Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said: “Anyone who imitates a people is one of them.” [Abu Daawood and Ahmad] [Saheeh]
Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said,
The straight path constitutes inward matters that exist in the heart including convictions, wills, and the like, and outward words and deeds which come in the form of acts of worship or traditions pertaining to diet, dress, and marriage. There is definitely a relationship between such inward and outward matters, since the feelings and conditions that are related to the heart result in outward conditions, and at the same time outward deeds necessarily result in certain feelings and conditions in the heart.
Hence, it is known from this that it is serious matter and forbidden that Muslim women imitate the disbelieving women.
• The economic damage resulting from attachment to fashion: It is well known how much money and expenses are involved in following fashion trends.
• Fostering mutual envy among women: This is because they are naturally attracted by a beautiful appearance and thus, they boast to each other and vie with one another in terms of their possessions. This may cause the wife of a man with limited financial resources to charge him with what is beyond his abilities so that she will be equal to fashion trends.
• Meetings of women with non-Mahram men in seclusion: People have taken this matter so lightly that some of them consider it natural. The forbidden meetings between men and women in seclusion is an aspect of Westernization that the Muslim Ummah has fallen into. It is an act of the disbelievers who do not have a religion that forbids doing so. Respecting the boundaries set by Allaah The Almighty is a characteristic of the Muslim Ummah. Daring to meet a non-Mahram (marriageable) woman in seclusion is a transgression of one of the boundaries set by Allaah The Almighty and is also a great danger. It is forbidden by Sharee‘ah in the words of the Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, who said: “No man should be alone with a (non-Mahram) woman unless her Mahram is also present.” [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim]
It is a given that any person who advocates falsehood clothes his falsehood in the garb of reform and decorative speech so that it gains public acceptance.
This is because falsehood is ugly and disliked, so when it appears in its real image, people do not accept it, as they, by natural disposition, are not satisfied with it. Therefore, Westernizing secularists resort to dressing their methods, objectives, and thoughts in the garb of reform and keenness to maintain public benefits. Thus, mixed employment and education are promoted for the benefit of the Ummah and under the pretext of employing women, who are half of society, to attain economic revenue. This is decorative speech that is inspired by the devils from among humans and Jinn. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {And thus We have made for every Prophet an enemy - devils from mankind and Jinn, inspiring to one another decorative speech in delusion. But if your Lord had willed, they would not have done it, so leave them and that which they invent. And [it is] so the hearts of those who disbelieve in the Hereafter will incline toward it and that they will be satisfied with it and that they will commit that which they are committing.} [Quran 6: 112-113]
This is deceptive to people with weak faith and deficient intellects.
In addition, secularists have found traditions that are not related to Islam in Muslim communities, so they exploited them and employed them to diffuse their poisons through them toward achieving their schemes. Then, they claimed that such traditions belong to Islam and thus, attacked Islam through them. For example, some Muslim communities are not fair with women when it comes to giving them their shares of inheritance. They may give women their shares from movables such as money and cattle but they fail to give them their shares from real estate, a practice that was followed during the pre-Islamic era.
Also, some polygamous men do not treat their wives equally, thus, violating the orders of Allaah The Almighty. Secularists capitalize on these shortcomings, though such acts do not belong to Islam and are not supported by divine authority, but are considered by Islam as forbidden injustice.
Muslims must bear in mind some of the most dangerous methods adopted by secularists so that they will be aware of them, denounce them, and try to frustrate them. They include:
• All kinds of mass media including press publications, broadcasting, television, movies, and magazines that are specialized in fashion, women’s issues, and the like. Mass media form opinions, adapt intellects, and direct public opinion, especially if such intellects are void and not fortified by divine revelation. Reprehensive matters are found in newspapers and magazines, such as the cover girl, a beautiful girl who is shown in adornment and make up.
When interviewed, she is asked trivial questions, such as: Have you ever been in love before? What is your favorite hobby? Have you had a boyfriend? Similar obscene questions are put to them that are meant to corrupt pure young women who are settled in their homes and possess modesty which they were brought up to observe. Such magazines remove the barriers and standards step by step. Also, obscene images are found in such magazines under the pretext of showing beauty, fitness, weight loss, diet, beauty queens or other pretexts dictated by the devil. They also include an large number of topics about love and courtship with the objective of facilitating indecency, reversing established concepts, and replacing them with strange concepts alien to the knowledge of Muslims.
In a wonderful Khutbah (sermon) about such magazines, the eminent scholar, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, may Allaah have mercy upon him, said, “It is unlawful to own such magazines, buy them, sell them, earn from them, give them as a gift, or accept them as a gift. It is also unlawful to help circulate such magazines among Muslims because this constitutes cooperation in sin and aggression.”
• One of the dangerous methods used by secularists to Westernize Muslim women is their corruption of education. To that end, they introduce fields of specialization that are unsuitable for women, and this consequently leads to the graduation of large numbers of women who have no work domain. This creates the need for opening domains that are suitable with the new specializations that are filled with women, or approving educational curricula that are far removed from what should be available for educating Muslim women. In some Arab countries, the educational curricula are terrible. Education may include a call for equality between women and men in everything, urging women to promote issues of what they call the liberation of women. There is also mixed education in most Muslim countries where girls sit next to boys. Mixed education is a major reason behind the degradation and consequent Westernization of women. Therefore, the best solution is that Muslim countries establish women-only universities. This has been called for by a Pakistani researcher in a fine study where he explained that establishing women-only universities is better for the rate of success, for mastering a given field of specialization, and perfection of work for both young men and young women in all types of study. We may not agree with him on some specializations that we think that women do not need.
• Authoring on the subject of women and conducting researches and studies that are filled with recommendations, suggestions, and alleged solutions for women’s issues and problems.
UNESCO published seven social studies on women in the Arab world. Anyone who reads these studies will realize the seriousness of this matter and the massive schemes weaved by the enemies against Muslim women.
• Holding women’s conferences or conferences that deal with women’s issues, or holding meetings that deal with matters concerned with women such as education, pedagogy, and so on. In such conferences and meetings, Westernizing studies, ideas, and suggestions are raised.
The fourth Regional Conference on Women in the Gulf and Arabia was held on 15/2/1976 in a Gulf country. The conference concentrated on the so-called women’s liberation and issued decisions that included the following: They stressed the importance and necessity of looking into the educational books and curricula in their treatment of women’s issues in such a way that guarantees changing the backward view of women’s role in the family and work. The study also says that the laws and systems to which the family was subjected to one thousand years ago still control family relations in the present time without considering the extent to which they are suitable for us.
What are the laws that were followed one thousand years ago? They are the Islamic Sharee‘ah. These women from the Gulf wanted to change the Islamic Sharee‘ah that has been applied to women for one thousand years.
• One of their methods of Westernizing Muslim women is that secularists dispatch them abroad. This took place a lot in many Muslim countries. When the Muslim women travel abroad, while they either have not studied anything about religion as in some Arab and Islamic countries, or they are not accompanied by Mahrams, then they are thrown into that decadent society, and when they come back home, they are messengers of evil sent by the Western world to Westernize Muslim women and transfer them from adhering to Sharee‘ah and Islamic morals, to adhering to Western methods and opinions as their predecessors had done in Egypt and Kuwait.
• One of the methods of secularists is the abuse of their positions: Some secularists may occupy certain positions of authority, then they issue decisions preventing women wearing Hijaab as was done in Egypt and Kuwait, or imposing intermixing between men and women, or disallowing holding Islamic seminars and activities, or enforcing intermixing between the two sexes in certain fields. This consequently leads women to mix with men, a thing that makes it easy for such a thing to take place, because people lose sensitivity upon frequent interaction. After that, women transcend the barriers that are set by Sharee‘ah and turn away from leading a proper life and integrate [in the Westernized life] as others did.
• Undisciplined work and employment: Either by employing men and women equally, or employing women in other than their fields. To that end, they follow a gradual approach that is slow but has a definite effect and by way of imposing a de facto situation.
• Participation and intermixing in health spas, recreation clubs, social clubs, and so on: Some women are perverted enough to smoke in the presence of their colleagues, not only in cafes and restaurants, but also inside offices.
• Inviting people to follow fashions, and flooding Muslim countries with obscene clothing: One of their schemes is to flood Muslim countries with obscene and short clothes. It is extremely difficult for parents to find loose cover-all garments for their daughters. Therefore, Muslim vendors should order and impose clothing that is acceptable to Muslims and which carry no images, writings, and are neither obscene aspects. The clothing should also not be tight or see-through. Manufacturing companies are after money, so they will make whatever clothing is asked of them. If they are not controlled in this regard, they will manufacture clothing that will damage the morals of Muslims.
• An old method that was initiated by secularists in Egypt and elsewhere was their establishment of women’s organizations, societies, and unions: The Women’s Union was established in Egypt long ago by Huda Sha`raawi with flagrant Western support, then other Arab countries followed suit. Women’s unions, organizations, and societies apparently promote the spread of culture and reform, teaching women crafts like embroidery and sewing, but, on the inside, they may be extremely harmful, as they teach women wicked Western thoughts and values which take them from the light of Islamic thought to the darkness of polytheist Western thought.
• One of the most evil issues that are always raised by them in newspapers and magazines is their pretension of defending women’s rights, raising the issue of women’s liberation especially when the Ummah is facing sensitive times. Sometimes they discuss the subject of equality between men and women, mixed education, widening the prospect of participation in mixed work, and so on. They promote that in the name of religion or in the name of benefit, in obscure language. In many cases, the approach of the hypocrites is to shield themselves with vague and deceptive expressions.
• One of their most evil methods is waging a severe attack on Hijaab and women who observe it, and glorifying immorality in the mass media and elsewhere in forums and cultural and literary clubs, or in private sessions, and so on.
• Glorifying dissolute women from among actresses, dancers, and singers. They call them stars, celebrities, pioneers in such and such a field, and examples to be followed, and say that they have broken the record in such and such games or styles. These secularist publications and secularist writings give Muslim women the false impression that this is the path they should trod, so they wish they were like such women and try to imitate them. This is why the attempts of secularists are foiled by repentant actresses who provide role models that counter what they aspire for.
• Promoting art, theater, and cinema.
• Another of their wicked and widespread methods is attracting brilliant Muslim girls to writing, acting, or broadcasting, particularly if such girls seek fame. Secularists invite Muslim girls to write in newspapers and acclaim their writings, so some conceited girls hasten to write and contact secularists to publish their writings.
• Training little girls in dancing, playing music, singing at schools, centers, and so on, and then showing them in the mass media: Little girls go out for dancing and singing, swaying in the most beautiful clothes and adornment. How will these girls be when they grow up? What will they head toward unless they are saved by the care and mercy of Allaah The Almighty?
They will attract other girls who wish to act like them because they appear as stars and may become famous singers or actresses in the future.
• Spreading a new spirit among Muslim women that transforms their character through establishing so-called physical therapy centers for women: The Da‘wah magazine, issue no.1328, published a report on these centers in 3/8/1412 AH. A female writer visited some of these centers, and said, “In light of the changes and developments that surface from time to time, a negative change has taken place, namely opening so-called physical therapy centers for women. In fact, these centers involve many negative aspects.” The writer continues, “To learn about the reality of these centers, what takes place inside them, and what they offer to their visitors, I visited some of them and contacted others as any woman who enquires about a given center before joining it, in an attempt to obtain the full facts and know what takes place inside them. Following is the summary of the report:
- The spread of revealing clothes inside these centers. This is even obligatory.
- Some centers employ male physicians whom girls under training have to be checked by.
- There is music in these centers, and some centers stipulate that members do not object to music.
- Allocating collective sauna baths where women are only wearing their underwear and gather there.
- Spreading these centers even in hotels, beauty salons, workshops, and providing them as a service.
This is a new thing that was unknown to us before. If women do their work at home, they will not be in need of that.
• In conclusion, secularists adopt a dangerous method, which is spreading mixed parks and restaurants for families: Some brothers visited some of these family restaurants and parks which include many prohibitions. Shaykh Muhammad Al-Farraaj was among the visitors who wrote a report where they explained the hidden aspects of such mixed restaurants. They mentioned that young men and women mix there, women enter such restaurants unaccompanied by Mahrams, and a man is allowed to enter provided that he is accompanied by a women whether she is a maid or a little girl or otherwise. These places, therefore, became a suitable environment for dating and other purposes. Afterwards, Shaykh ‘Abdullaah ibn Jibreen wrote in support of what those brothers wrote, saying, “All perfect praise is due to Allaah. I saw examples of what is mentioned in this report, the thing that alerted us to hasten to forbid access (to such places) and warn against doing so.”
Such parks and restaurants might have been established with a good intention, but they are an important reason behind Westernizing Muslim women. This is because they spread the aspects of Westernization including intermixing between the two sexes and having men and women meeting each other in seclusion , thus, opening the door for committing indecency and entering upon honorable women, who will consequently be tempted in their religion and chastity in the light of the overwhelming motives for immorality due to the abundance of stimulation available. Help is sought from Allaah.
The fourth Regional Conference on Women in the Gulf and Arabia was held on 15/2/1976 in a Gulf country. The conference concentrated on the so-called "women’s liberation" and issued decisions that stressed the importance and necessity of looking into the educational books and curricula in their treatment of women’s issues in such a way that guarantees changing the "backward view of women’s role in the family and work". The study also says that the laws and systems to which the family was subjected to one thousand years ago still control family relations in the present time without considering the extent to which they are suitable for us.
What are the laws that were followed one thousand years ago? They are the Islamic Sharee‘ah (Islamic legislation). These women from the Gulf wanted to change the Islamic Sharee‘ah that has been applied to women for one thousand years.
• Dispatching women abroad: This took place a lot in many Muslim countries in the past and is still taking place. When the Muslim women travel abroad, while they either have not studied anything about religion as in some Arab and Islamic countries, or they are not accompanied by Mahrams (non-marriageable men), then they are thrown into that decadent society, and when they come back home, they are messengers of evil sent by the Western world to Westernize Muslim women and transfer them from adhering to Sharee‘ah and Islamic morals, to adhering to Western methods and opinions.
• The abuse of positions of authority: Some secularists may occupy certain positions of authority, then they issue decisions preventing women from wearing Hijaab (Islamic covering), or imposing intermixing between men and women, or disallowing holding Islamic seminars and activities, or enforcing intermixing between the two sexes in certain fields. This consequently leads women to mix with men, a thing that makes it easy for such a thing to take place, because people lose sensitivity upon frequent interaction. After that, women transcend the barriers that are set by Sharee‘ah and turn away from leading a proper life and integrate [in the Westernized life] as others did.
• Work and employment: Either by employing men and women equally, or employing women in other than their fields. To that end, they follow a gradual approach that is slow but has a definite effect and by way of imposing a de facto situation.
• Participation and intermixing in health spas, recreation clubs, social clubs, and so on: Some women are perverted enough to smoke in the presence of their colleagues, not only in cafes and restaurants, but also inside offices.
• Inviting people to follow fashions, and flooding Muslim countries with obscene clothing: One of their schemes is to flood Muslim countries with obscene and short clothes. It is extremely difficult for parents to find loose cover-all garments for their daughters. Therefore, Muslim vendors should order and impose clothing that is acceptable to Muslims and which carry no images, writings, and are neither obscene aspects. The clothing should also not be tight or see-through. Manufacturing companies are after money, so they will make whatever clothing is asked of them. If they are not controlled in this regard, they will manufacture clothing that will damage the morals of Muslims.
• Establishment of women’s organizations, societies, and unions: The Women’s Union was first established in Egypt long ago by Huda Sha`raawi with flagrant Western support, then other Arab countries followed suit. Women’s unions, organizations, and societies apparently promote the spread of culture and reform, teaching women crafts like embroidery and sewing, but, on the inside, they may be extremely harmful, as they teach women decadent thoughts and values which take them from the light of Islamic thought to the darkness of polytheist Western thought.
• One of the most evil issues that are always raised by them in newspapers and magazines is their pretension of defending women’s rights, raising the issue of women’s liberation especially when the Ummah is facing sensitive times. Sometimes they discuss the subject of equality between men and women, mixed education, widening the prospect of participation in mixed work, and so on. They promote that in the name of religion or in the name of benefit, in obscure language. In many cases, the approach of the hypocrites is to shield themselves with vague and deceptive expressions.
• One of their most evil methods is waging a severe attack on Hijaab and women who observe it, and glorifying immorality in the mass media and elsewhere in forums and cultural and literary clubs, or in private sessions, and so on.
• Glorifying dissolute women from among actresses, dancers, and singers. They call them stars, celebrities, pioneers in such and such a field, and examples to be followed, and say that they have broken the record in such and such games or styles.
These secularist publications and secularist writings give Muslim women the false impression that this is the path they should trod, so they wish they were like such women and try to imitate them. This is why the attempts of secularists are foiled by repentant actresses who provide role models that counter what they aspire for.
• Promoting art, theater, and cinema.
• Another of their wicked and widespread methods is attracting brilliant Muslim girls to writing, acting, or broadcasting, particularly if such girls seek fame. Secularists invite Muslim girls to write in newspapers and acclaim their writings, so some conceited girls hasten to write and contact secularists to publish their writings.
• Training little girls in dancing, playing music, singing at schools, centers, and so on, and then showing them in the mass media: Little girls go out for dancing and singing, swaying in the most beautiful clothes and adornment. How will these girls be when they grow up? What will they head toward unless they are saved by the care and mercy of Allaah The Almighty?
They will attract other girls who wish to act like them because they appear as stars and may become famous singers or actresses in the future.
• Spreading a new spirit among Muslim women that transforms their character through establishing so-called physical therapy centers for women: The Da‘wah magazine, issue no.1328, published a report on these centers in 3/8/1412 AH. A female writer visited some of these centers, and said, “In light of the changes and developments that surface from time to time, a negative change has taken place, namely opening so-called physical therapy centers for women. In fact, these centers involve many negative aspects.” The writer continues, “To learn about the reality of these centers, what takes place inside them, and what they offer to their visitors, I visited some of them and contacted others as any woman who enquires about a given center before joining it, in an attempt to obtain the full facts and know what takes place inside them. Following is the summary of the report:
- The spread of revealing clothes inside these centers. This is even obligatory.
- Some centers employ male physicians whom girls under training have to be checked by.
- There is music in these centers, and some centers stipulate that members do not object to music.
- Allocating collective sauna baths where women are only wearing their underwear and gather there.
- Spreading these centers even in hotels, beauty salons, workshops, and providing them as a service.
This is a new thing that was unknown to us before. If women do their work at home, they will not be in need of that.
• In conclusion, secularists adopt a dangerous method, which is spreading mixed parks and restaurants for families: Some brothers visited some of these family restaurants and parks which include many prohibitions. Shaykh Muhammad Al-Farraaj was among the visitors who wrote a report where they explained the hidden aspects of such mixed restaurants. They mentioned that young men and women mix there, women enter such restaurants unaccompanied by Mahrams, and a man is allowed to enter provided that he is accompanied by a women whether she is a maid or a little girl or otherwise. These places, therefore, became a suitable environment for dating and other purposes. Afterwards, Shaykh ‘Abdullaah ibn Jibreen wrote in support of what those brothers wrote, saying, “All perfect praise is due to Allaah. I saw examples of what is mentioned in this report, the thing that alerted us to hasten to forbid access (to such places) and warn against doing so.”
Such parks and restaurants might have been established with a good intention, but they are an important reason behind Westernizing Muslim women. This is because they spread the aspects of Westernization including intermixing between the two sexes and having men and women meeting each other in seclusion , thus, opening the door for committing indecency and entering upon honorable women, who will consequently be tempted in their religion and chastity in the light of the overwhelming motives for immorality due to the abundance of stimulation available. Help is sought from Allaah.
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