Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 81
! ! 81 Therefore, it should be understood that no prayer, no fast, no pilgrimage, and in fact, no worship will be accepted until the woman chooses her own faith, instead of relying upon her husband ’ s faith. I f you believe that Allah has created you only for the sake of men, you cannot progress at all. Progress o f Religion t hrough the Progress o f Women Bear in mind that no religion can advance unless its women progre ss. It is important that for Islam to progress , you should improve yourselves. Women are like two of the four walls of a room. If two of the walls collapse, can its ceiling remain standing? C ertainly not! Thus, women are substantial ly important in several ways. Everything has been Created i n Pairs The fore most of those is to do with her own existence; without women , the [human] race cannot survive. If it could continue without her, God would have created only men. Secondly, because God Almighty is One and He holds this attribute in the highest regard, therefore He has not created anything which is one or which can subsist independently of anything else. Therefore, He has created everything in pairs. Even a human being consists of two parts, the body and the soul. Modern research shows that even trees have male and female parts. It was already written in t he Holy Qur’ān that all things in the world come in pairs, so that nothing could claim to be one. Thus , everything is dependent on something else, except for the rare event of Adam ’s as creation , in fact, even his creation was not from a single substance, but from many different elements. The Reason for the Creation of Men a nd Women Another reason for the creation of m e n and wom e n is to establish unity. God has said in the Holy Qur’ān , ‘I have not created mankind and Jinn , but that they should worship me. ’ Since God has created men and women for the same purpose, women should also seek nearness to God. They both [man and woman] can be likened to