Is the Quran Biased Toward Men- Truth or Propaganda- Q&A

0:00this audio is brought to you by Muslim Central. With my whole chest, I reject the idea that the stories of the people mentioned in the Quran should be looked at from the lens of gender before they are relatable. You know why? Because then, Feraun and his arrogance is only a problem for men, but women don't have a Feraun problem. And Shaitan is not mentioned in the feminine, so women don't have that issue. I'm a bit scared to ask this question, but I'm going to try. What? But I am making it worse so you get over it. No, it's just as a woman. So you talked about the prophets.

1:00What's the Hikma as a woman of this trauma of men? How we have to understand as a woman? Okay. Or do you understand what I mean? I do. Yeah, I do. My daughter asked me why prophets can a woman be a prophet? I said no, I tried to explain. Maybe a woman is very empathic. She understands a lot more, I think. But I'm just wondering what your answer will be. Do we have to record this? Okay, okay. Thank you for your brave question. Okay, so a few things. The idea that we're looking at human beings from the lens of gender before we can empathize with them is actually a modern construct. You can see a child's pain before you see it's a boy's pain

2:03or a girl's pain. You can see Madhyam having suicidal thoughts because of humiliation, and you don't have to be a woman to say I'm terrified of humiliation too. You can see in Surat-u-Tahreem for your, this is for your daughter's benefit, Surat-u-Tahreem, okay? Surah number 66, I believe. The wives of the prophets, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam, are being spoken to and they're being taught a lesson. And right after that, Allah says, and this lesson is for the rest of the Ummah. So who was the model here? Women were being, is a women's story and who's learning the lesson? The entire nation. The entire nation. When we study the story of the mother of Musa, or the sister of Musa, or the wife of Ibrahim, or the story of Mariam, and or the wife of Farrahm, for example, it is a mistake to say these are really good studies and

3:08lessons for women. These are really good lessons for believers. They're for believers. A Yuba is sick. He has no power over his body. Do you think a Yuba's example only applies to sick men or sick men and women? Ibrahim has kicked out of his house by his father. Can somebody who's been kicked out of their house, whether they're a boy or a girl, relate to that story? Yes. This classification of, it's more relatable when it's the same gender and it's less relatable when it's not the same gender, is a problem. You know why? Because then, then, Farrahm and his arrogance is only a problem for men, but women don't have a fit-own problem. And Shaitan is not mentioned in the feminine. So women don't have that issue. Okay? And then you have, for example, the wife of the minister who lied, who scammed, who tried to falsely testify, who got an innocent man thrown in jail,

4:14who was angry because of rejection. She got rejected and that's what made her angry. She couldn't handle rejection. So she wanted to see use of humiliated. Are there men who feel rejected and then they want to make the woman feel humiliated? Is that, is that happen? Yes. Can they be learning something from a woman's story in the Quran? Yes. So I hold up with my whole chest. I reject the idea that the stories of the people mentioned in the Quran should be looked at from the lens of gender before they are relatable. It is a Western concert. Yes. And by the way, by the way, this idea of, you know, Western liberalism gave us human values. Let me just say something about that. Like, okay, so Western society has given us many amazing things, but it's also given us some interesting contradictions. So across most Western societies where there's talk of women's liberation, women across the board get paid less than men for the same job. I'm not talking about in the Muslim

5:18world. I'm talking about in the West. And across the board, the vast majority of victims of domestic abuse are women in the Western world, not in the Muslim world. And the vast majority of sexual exploitation between the genders is that of women as opposed to that of men. In the West, we're not talking about in the Muslim world. When I went to, first time I went to Malaysia and Indonesia, I had a, I know, for the young ladies here, if you ever get a vacation, go to Indonesia and go to Malaysia. And if you get a chance, go visit a company called Paragon. Look, write that down. P-A-R-A-G-O-N Paragon. Okay. Let's go visit them. When I went to Malaysia and I went to the International Islamic University of Malaysia, and I saw the first time, this was maybe 10 years ago, I saw two thirds of the faculty was women, two thirds of the faculty. When I saw women that were CEOs of multi-million dollar corporations that pray five times a day that we're the hijab, and this

6:22is a complete norm. And I went, just recently I went and we had a women's organization dinner of all these CEOs and C-level C-suite executives. There must have been maybe a half a billion dollars worth of net worth in the room of maybe 80 women, just women. And this is their, they didn't say, we fought for our rights. They're not, they're not having that conversation at all. They're just, this is normal. This is their normal. I was talking to one female entrepreneur, she's like, yeah, so panellah, I started my project very small and I'm doing, I was like, how small? She could just start it with two million dollars, but now it's, I'm doing like 35 million in the last two years. I was like, oh, I'm very small. Think bigger. Next time. I went to, I went to Paragon in Indonesia and the CEO, the sister that I met, we spoke, she, they, they, they, they manufacture cosmetic products like shampoo, soap, things like that, right? They have over 10,000 employees. And the founder was a woman who wanted to give women in villages jobs. So they modeled their factory after Japanese

7:26efficiency. You guys know that Japanese are famous for their efficiency, right? But the more efficient you are, the more inhumane you become. So these women built this entire factory, these, this family. And they put a Hadith about excellence and Rahma on the, on the entrance to the factory. There's 3,000 employees in there. And they've got, you know, the conveyor belt, where, you know, people put the product together and the, the product keeps moving. They have a special area with chairs and pillows and for women that are pregnant that still want to come to work. And they have a baby's section, free daycare for all the employees. And the, so the, the moms can have lunch with their kids if they want to work and still have work life balance. And dads can spend time and I'm looking at this like, this isn't the Muslim world. And this is supposed to be backwards. This is a hundred years ahead of everybody else. This is ahead of everybody else. We have this idea somewhere in our head because we're colonized mentally that the West is ahead and the Muslims are behind.

8:28Open your eyes and travel a little bit. Just a little bit. And you'll see some, you'll see some terrible examples too. Yes. You'll see them. But you'll see some very inspiring examples. You'll see some incredible, incredible examples. I would want my daughters to be like that. I want my daughters and my sons to be like that. I will want them to be high achievers. I won't want them to have work life balance. I want them to have purpose in their life. Right? So, don't buy into this propaganda. It's just that, you know, we never had this issue. This was a glimpse of a few reflections, but I've actually done quite a deep dive into all of these ayat. And I'd really encourage you to study the full blown study of these ayat along with me, which Alhamdulillah, by Allah's grace, is available on the revealed app now. You can just select whichever Ia and look at all of my notes and listen to the concise commentary also. So, I'd really like to encourage you to become part of the revealed app family. It's a remarkable

9:29project of anyone who is engaged with the study of the Quran or is curious about the Quran reading any part of the Quran and just wants to know. I wonder what this ayah is talking about. I wonder if, you know, Nourmah has done some work on this ayah or has some thoughts on it. You can just hold down the ayat and you'll get my notes and you might even get, or you also get my concise commentary on it. You can also post questions on there, which many of you are starting to post, Masha'Allah. So, I'd really encourage you to become part of this revolutionary study and this revolutionary resource that can really help develop a very good bond between you and the Quran and also a really great way for me to gain insights on what kinds of things are on your mind as you post your questions. Thanks so much and I hope to see you at the revealed app.