The Sisterhood!!!






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 support the other sister in this kind of situation but this sister was doing the otherwise by literally telling people that merely covering face makes a woman separate from the society. Alhamdulillah! Nika answered that for us. We should ask ourselves, how many sisters would stand up for each other???? My answer would be none. We are so indulged with our own stuff that we do not even have time to worry about someone else. Islam teaches us the otherwise. We are taught to look out for each other. This situation is worse in all cultures. Islam taught us not to find faults in others but we do exactly the opposite. Talking about other sisters is like a hot topic in all the gatherings. This is the situation for all women in general. Let's talk about the women who are religious. They are indeed blessed with the knowledge of deen but still they fail to implement the deen in the correct way especially regarding the non-religious sisters. I don't want to get into too much detail about this but the main point is these religious sisters hurt the feelings of the other sisters knowingly or unknowingly. I guess these all come down to good manners or good akhlaqs. We are taught to behave our best with the non-muslims so they get a form of indirect dawah with our good behavior. But what about the other muslim sisters who are not that much practicing???? Aren't we pushing them away from the deen by an innocent attempt to show off our own deeni knowledge. May Allah forgive us all!!! Why can't we all be sisters regardless of cultures, religiousness and religions? Why can't we just look out for each other and tell the other sister "I am right here sister!!! If you fall I am right here to catch you. I am not going to let you down!!!"? WHY??? In this case, we all should take a lesson from Nika and learn how to look out for each other.(I guess this post is not about bengali women only!!!)

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