rebellious

All these days i was thinking myself, what should be the next topic for my writing about women in our culture. I could not come up with anything until recently when I visited my friend's house. My topic is hijab!!! I  know it is the same old and boring topic and everybody has already learned about it everywhere. But we still tend to miss one very important part where it says "who should we do hijab from and why?". In Bengali culture, hijab has become a symbol of culture rather than a symbol of religiousness. Almost in every household, we'll be able to see women wearing 'so called' hijab not out of religiousness but out of culture. This is true regarding all Bengali women regardless of age. These women are forced to wear hijab or even veil by their own family members. Once I asked a woman about the reason behind her wearing the full face veil. Her answer was, "my husband feels insecure about me going outside so he makes me wear a veil.". After listeni...

Today I came across this video in youtube. I was kind of surprised in a good and a bad way. Good thing was a christian woman named Nika started wearing the Muslim face veil and hijab in support of her Muslim friend who wears a full hijab. She was doing this in support and love of her muslim friend. At the end of the video Nika became very emotional when she was talking about how muslim women on veil are not even treated as a normal human being. She also mentioned that face veil should not be a barrier to be friendly to the person under the veil. In my opinion, "This is the example of true sisterhood, the true feminism where one woman stands up for the other women regardless of belief and faith." Now let's talk about the bad part!!! It was kind of astonishing to find a Muslim sister talking about the huge socialization barrier she faced when she was wearing the niqab only for five minutes!!! I was wondering where is our Muslim sisterhood. A Muslim sister should suppor...

Mothers are the most important persons of our lives. They are the source of our being in this world. This is the reason why Islam has put so much emphasis on the rights of our mothers. We all know the hadith where mothers are mentioned as the door to jannah. In Bengali culture, these mothers are not given as much respect as they deserve compared to the fathers. According to the culture, when the parents get divorced or fathers die, the custody of the children goes to the fathers and fathers' families respectively. They pretend like, mothers do not have any rights over their children. The situation is totally different in Islam. According to the shariah law, mothers get the custody of the children after the parents get divorced or the fathers' death. Moreover, Islam has made the women the rightful inheritor of the husbands' and fathers' property. Most of the time, we do not know these rulings. Even if we know, we do not care. These mistreatment regarding the children are...