It's Saturday night, and the blogs are on fire!
The Prophet saw Hell and there were more women there than men! Ouch!
I love the last paragraph:
So our advice to the sisters is to strive to adhere to the rituals and obligatory duties of Islam, especially prayer, and to keep away from that which Allaah has forbidden, especially shirk in its many forms which are widespread among women, such as seeking one's needs from someone other than Allaah, going to practitioners of witchcraft and fortune-tellers, etc.
Y'all keep away from them witches!!
Shirk. I have a shrine with icons in my bedroom ... but I don't pay much attention to it!
(I'm not Muslim anyway)
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Hakim, are you really not a Muslim? I am not Muslim.
I too once read something about there being more women than men in hell, and it has something to do with soiling ones clothing through bladder incontinence. I am not making a joke. I think this issue is mentioned somewhere in Hadith or in "The Sayings of Mohammed" preserved in oral tradition.
Right, I'm not Muslim. Besides Moorish Orthodox, I don't know what other labels would apply to me ... antinomian informal universal pluralist maybe.
Oh, right! I forgot that I had read a post here about Moorish Orthodox. Thanks! Today, I happened to be reading about the Druze. I like to learn about such things. I was googling on the difference between Shia and Sunni.
I created a free message board today,
http://www.iranianromance.myfreeforum.org . My long time friend in Tehran has been corresponding with an American for 4 years, and he is thinking of conversion to Islam and marriage. I read an article in Newsweek about the surprisingly small number or Iraqi-American marriages, compared to intermarriage during other wars, such as WWII, Viet Nam, Korea. All those Iraqi marriages involved conversion to Islam. I did succeed yesterday in finding a Farsi group, and located one Iranian member who has just recently married an American (who converted to Islam). She has much good advice for my Iranian friend.
I was raised with absolutely no religion, by nominally Protestant parents. Over the years, my own thinking evolved to resemble Buddhist-Hindu beliefs. But I participate in no organized religion. I can most easily relate to Sufi beliefs, as described by the popular writer, Idres Shah. Rumi is one of my favorites: "There is a field beyond notions of right-doing and wrong-doing. I shall meet you there." (paraphrased)
one of my all-time favorites!
I was raised in a very laid-back, liberal, middle-class suburban Friends Meeting, a/k/a Quaker "church". I was always taught "there is that of God in everyone" and that people can "worship" by sitting in silence, perhaps visualizing the Light or contemplating. Gay is OK, Jews can come to church here, peace is good, violence bad. Also, plenty of Volvos and Apple computers. Simplicity and non-hierarchical organization--through Spirit-led consensus--are other values I picked up from the Quakers. I recall a line from a song, the name of which I don't recall, but I do remember singing as a child "you can't beat the Devil with a book or a gun." I love that.
As a teenager--in the late 80s--I lost interest in Quaker meeting and never really went back except for the occasional wedding or funeral. But I have a lot of respect for them; at least, the ones I know are an island of relative sanity within very Republican suburbs of Chicago.
So now I'm further out on the edge, and loving it. We Springfield Moors are radically informal, yet always seeking inspiration and accompanying one another on our respective paths. If that makes any sense. I'm staying up late tonight, doing dishes and drinking dandelion wine! But I had enough sense to change "Us Springfield Moors are" to "We Springfield Moors are". Programming ......
Well perhaps like prisons, it's not unreasonable to imagine that lots of women could wind up in hell thanks to the men in their lives. I know if I'd done some of the stuff my ex was harassing me to do, I'd have some things to answer for.
You know, I was on a website today and this guy used a hadith that said, "Every woman brings three men with her into hell: her father, her brother, and her husband."
I wanted to reach through the computer and bitchslap his ass back into the Jahiliyyah where he belongs. Cypress smash!
I guess when you have been tormented, and tortured and raped, and beaten, and forced to have sex with a man three times your age, and kidnapped and mentally battered, and
locked away and denied a voice and your personal freedom you just might be angry enough to die and populate hell. Because you have been taught that you have no value, that you have no brain, no voice and no rights Hell is an improvement But once men find out that a woman is joyfully peacefully in hell where they aren't , they will definetly go there and ruin that too. So let's keep this quiet...women deserve some peace.