Author: Asghar Taherzadeh
Translator: Hadi Moein
Translator: Hadi Moein
Extracted from: Rasekhoon
I do not believe that women and men should be equal in works and they should be behaved equally. There is a close relationship between body and spirit and each part of body has its own features. The feelings of men and women as fathers and mothers are different. But it should be paid attention that body is the tool of soul and has no interference in the reality of human. Therefore, it is recommended to us taking care of our body. A logical principle is that the value of a person depends on his or her purpose. Therefore, if both men and women have exalted purposes, their value will be equal. Quran states that the purpose of the creation of women and men is good life. Moreover, the tool of men and women is different in achieving good life. The norm of value of men and women is worshipping God. Quran states that
فَتَقَبَّلَهَا رَبُّهَا بِقَبُولٍ حَسَنٍ وَأَنبَتَهَا نَبَاتًا حَسَنًا وَکَفَّلَهَا زَکَرِیَّا ۖ کُلَّمَا دَخَلَ عَلَیْهَا زَکَرِیَّا الْمِحْرَابَ وَجَدَ عِندَهَا رِزْقًا ۖ قَالَ یَا مَرْیَمُ أَنَّىٰ لَکِ هَٰذَا ۖ قَالَتْ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ ۖ إِنَّ اللَّهَ یَرْزُقُ مَن یَشَاءُ بِغَیْرِ حِسَابٍ
Right graciously did her Lord accept her: He made her grow in purity and beauty: To the care of Zakariya was she assigned. Every time that he entered (Her) chamber to see her, He found her supplied with sustenance. He said: "O Mary! Whence (comes) this to you?" She said: "From Allah: for Allah Provides sustenance to whom He pleases without measure''.
هُنَالِکَ دَعَا زَکَرِیَّا رَبَّهُ ۖ قَالَ رَبِّ هَبْ لِی مِن لَّدُنکَ ذُرِّیَّةً طَیِّبَةً ۖ إِنَّکَ سَمِیعُ الدُّعَاءِ
There did Zakariya pray to his Lord, saying: "O my Lord! Grant unto me from Thee a progeny that is pure: for Thou art He that heareth prayer.
یَا زَکَرِیَّا إِنَّا نُبَشِّرُکَ بِغُلَامٍ اسْمُهُ یَحْیَىٰ لَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ مِن قَبْلُ سَمِیًّا
His prayer was answered): "O Zakariya! We give thee good news of a son: His name shall be Yahya: on none by that name have We conferred distinction before.
According to the above verses, it can be understood that the rank of a divine woman is higher than a prophet. The destination of women and men is exalted and both of them can achieve exalted purposes because the reality of both of them is equal. But they have different tools in order to achieve their destinations.
If your heart considers the value of men and women differently, your interest in God has decreased. If you believe in God completely, you will see no duality in the creations of the world as Quran states
وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّکَ مِن بَنِی آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّیَّتَهُمْ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّکُمْ ۖ قَالُوا بَلَىٰ ۛ شَهِدْنَا ۛ أَن تَقُولُوا یَوْمَ الْقِیَامَةِ إِنَّا کُنَّا عَنْ هَٰذَا غَافِلِینَ
When thy Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants, and made them testify concerning themselves, (saying): "Am I not your Lord (who cherishes and sustains you)?"- They said: "Yea! We do testify!" (This), lest ye should say on the Day of Judgment: "Of this we were never mindful''.
قَالَ مَا مَنَعَکَ أَلَّا تَسْجُدَ إِذْ أَمَرْتُکَ ۖ قَالَ أَنَا خَیْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِی مِن نَّارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُ مِن طِینٍ
(Allah) said: "What prevented thee from prostrating when I commanded thee?" He said: "I am better than he: Thou didst create me from fire, and him from clay''.
Quran emphasizes that all of you are born from a single reality;
یَا أَیُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّکُمُ الَّذِی خَلَقَکُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالًا کَثِیرًا وَنِسَاءً ۚ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ الَّذِی تَسَاءَلُونَ بِهِ وَالْأَرْحَامَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ کَانَ عَلَیْکُمْ رَقِیبًا
O mankind! Reverence your Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single person, created, of like nature, His mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women;- reverence Allah, through whom ye demand your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs (That bore you): for Allah ever watches over you.
If the eyes of person do not understand the unity of women and men, their wisdom can recognize it. If persons focus on the unity of God, they will see no duality. These represent reality in different aspects.
If you pay attention, you will see that in new eras, human has been tyrannized with appearance of modernization culture. Persons lived for thousand years and it was not true that women were more important than men. This topic should not be denied that mothers lived with their fathers for centuries
In the religious culture, it was not a question of where woman is, and where man is. Old men and women do not know this language. This language is alien to the religious man and where is the place where the woman is and where the man is and this language is the western language after the Renaissance which with a backward look to religion, was entangled in dichotomy, and the discussion of the rights of men and women were not expressed with a new meaning and we were not women and men, but we were believers togethr.
I do not want to say that now that we have suffered from this disaster, we are not in a position to eliminate it and have a duty to respond to the massive questions posed by the encounter with the culture of modernity and the definition of that culture of the world, but in a space where all the opinions are true, nobody looks to himself or herself to discuss and I am more respected, or he is all submissively committed to duty, and he is fully enjoying such blessings. This is not a glimpse of these questions because we did not look at ourselves in that position until we had to patch ourselves. We were in paradise and we did not look at the pedigree when we watched the face of partner, we looked at God. God damns Satan, who said that you are looking at the tree, to enjoy what is called immortality, where we were in immortality, what caused us to become immortal, except the devil who directed us to the tree of immortality? That somebody comes to say that a woman is more important than a man, or a man was first deprived of unity. We were living, did not have these questions and were in the same thing that you are now chanting falsely that you want us to enter it. They say that you must adhere to the rights of men and women, and I must adhere to them. I have said that anyone who believes in his heart is that a woman is more important or a man and this person does not believe in faith, but this is not in the religious context. As long as a man likes to be hard to have his wife comfortable, the man himself does not feel compassion for himself, and this is the case for a man, he pours himself into the water and fire so his wife is comfortable. Quran states that Satan said in such a situation
فَوَسْوَسَ إِلَیْهِ الشَّیْطَانُ قَالَ یَا آدَمُ هَلْ أَدُلُّکَ عَلَىٰ شَجَرَةِ الْخُلْدِ وَمُلْکٍ لَّا یَبْلَىٰ
But Satan whispered evil to him: he said, "O Adam! shall I lead thee to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?
The problems of the rights of men and women should be searched out of the space of the life. Persons in the charge of culture should recognize ideals that the religion presents for women and families.
Our grandmothers never felt duality toward their husbands so that the superiority of the rights of men over women is not expressed. They shared their goals for life while living together and economic independence in their own affairs. Our grandfathers never said that they died. Those who were educated in the culture of Islam would have seen life above these words. Ayatollah Javadi, "Hafzah Allah" quoted the words of their late Fadhil Toni "Rahmayullah Ali" as saying: "Our classmates in Esfahan, before they entered the school as a formal student, had read the book of Mecasb with their mothers." That is, until about one hundred and fifty years ago, such a space was dominant in our homes. I said that we should not judge the circumstances that, with the testimony of Sheikh Fazlullah Nouri and the rule of intellectuals and the influence of the culture of modernity in society, we separated from our past lives, and became an iconic culture of strangers that, wherever they went, went beyond society. The crisis has fallen into crisis, and we should not consider the kind of society that has suffered a historical breakdown with modern slogans. We drove from Qajar to everything after all, the Qajar people felt themselves as the conqueror of Iran as their Mongol race, and not the genuine Iranian, so fascinated by the West, during which all our past denied, between modernity and tradition, and the crisis began. We had plans for ourselves and for city administration, we had tested the best kind of relationship with nature for a thousand years and formed the best peace of nature. In the religious perspective, the value of man is to be good, not to build a flat, nations should not be compared to Western values, they should be judged against the sacred goals to be achieved, and whether their wisdom and their elites have been able to The basis for reaching those goals in life or not.
Well, once we compare ourselves with the great goals we should get, there are certain backwardness, but we compare our time with the West and the goals that this culture has been considered for human beings, in which case, with the eyes of the West Let's see, this is what we wanted in Paradise to shape our lives with Satan's eyes and, as a result, we were deprived of everything.
Culture with full of crisis
The subject of the West is an emerging phenomenon that searches its life in order to liven up it and expose oneself to others which is an indication of the anesthetics and futility of this civilization. They always created a problem for other nations such as Alexander Maqdoni who rose from Athens and came to these places, and then went to Egypt. It is not clear why it is so because they had not understood meaning in a sacred and transcendental life and they did not live for themselves. One of the loved ones had recognized that the gunpowder for the first time was invented by the Chinese, but they never made balls with it because they invented gunpowder to use it in the their life as gunpowder was given to the Europeans, they made the ball with it and started a plan of rape to other nations. But the Chinese, like the spirit of rape, did not make it a means of rape to other nations. Or the Chinese for the first time invented the compass, but they did not build giants for rebellion to other continents because they wanted to live themselves, but as the compass was given to the hands of Europeans in the same spirit as traveling in the oceans, most of the world's nations were colonized by them and the people of Africa fell into trouble and was destroyed whereas it used to have its own civilization without having prepared itself for aggression. It would seem that all the world should become the valet of the European spirit. It turns out that when this soul and spirit came to the scene, we must be sure that we must be equipped to deal with it, but we realize that human beings lived in their ancient history in such a way that they would go to their holy place before they showed off themselves to other nations. That kind of life could not be a kind of show off.
I do not believe that women and men should be equal in works and they should be behaved equally. There is a close relationship between body and spirit and each part of body has its own features. The feelings of men and women as fathers and mothers are different. But it should be paid attention that body is the tool of soul and has no interference in the reality of human. Therefore, it is recommended to us taking care of our body. A logical principle is that the value of a person depends on his or her purpose. Therefore, if both men and women have exalted purposes, their value will be equal. Quran states that the purpose of the creation of women and men is good life. Moreover, the tool of men and women is different in achieving good life. The norm of value of men and women is worshipping God. Quran states that
فَتَقَبَّلَهَا رَبُّهَا بِقَبُولٍ حَسَنٍ وَأَنبَتَهَا نَبَاتًا حَسَنًا وَکَفَّلَهَا زَکَرِیَّا ۖ کُلَّمَا دَخَلَ عَلَیْهَا زَکَرِیَّا الْمِحْرَابَ وَجَدَ عِندَهَا رِزْقًا ۖ قَالَ یَا مَرْیَمُ أَنَّىٰ لَکِ هَٰذَا ۖ قَالَتْ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ ۖ إِنَّ اللَّهَ یَرْزُقُ مَن یَشَاءُ بِغَیْرِ حِسَابٍ
Right graciously did her Lord accept her: He made her grow in purity and beauty: To the care of Zakariya was she assigned. Every time that he entered (Her) chamber to see her, He found her supplied with sustenance. He said: "O Mary! Whence (comes) this to you?" She said: "From Allah: for Allah Provides sustenance to whom He pleases without measure''.
هُنَالِکَ دَعَا زَکَرِیَّا رَبَّهُ ۖ قَالَ رَبِّ هَبْ لِی مِن لَّدُنکَ ذُرِّیَّةً طَیِّبَةً ۖ إِنَّکَ سَمِیعُ الدُّعَاءِ
There did Zakariya pray to his Lord, saying: "O my Lord! Grant unto me from Thee a progeny that is pure: for Thou art He that heareth prayer.
یَا زَکَرِیَّا إِنَّا نُبَشِّرُکَ بِغُلَامٍ اسْمُهُ یَحْیَىٰ لَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ مِن قَبْلُ سَمِیًّا
His prayer was answered): "O Zakariya! We give thee good news of a son: His name shall be Yahya: on none by that name have We conferred distinction before.
According to the above verses, it can be understood that the rank of a divine woman is higher than a prophet. The destination of women and men is exalted and both of them can achieve exalted purposes because the reality of both of them is equal. But they have different tools in order to achieve their destinations.
If your heart considers the value of men and women differently, your interest in God has decreased. If you believe in God completely, you will see no duality in the creations of the world as Quran states
وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّکَ مِن بَنِی آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّیَّتَهُمْ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّکُمْ ۖ قَالُوا بَلَىٰ ۛ شَهِدْنَا ۛ أَن تَقُولُوا یَوْمَ الْقِیَامَةِ إِنَّا کُنَّا عَنْ هَٰذَا غَافِلِینَ
When thy Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants, and made them testify concerning themselves, (saying): "Am I not your Lord (who cherishes and sustains you)?"- They said: "Yea! We do testify!" (This), lest ye should say on the Day of Judgment: "Of this we were never mindful''.
قَالَ مَا مَنَعَکَ أَلَّا تَسْجُدَ إِذْ أَمَرْتُکَ ۖ قَالَ أَنَا خَیْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِی مِن نَّارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُ مِن طِینٍ
(Allah) said: "What prevented thee from prostrating when I commanded thee?" He said: "I am better than he: Thou didst create me from fire, and him from clay''.
Quran emphasizes that all of you are born from a single reality;
یَا أَیُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّکُمُ الَّذِی خَلَقَکُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالًا کَثِیرًا وَنِسَاءً ۚ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ الَّذِی تَسَاءَلُونَ بِهِ وَالْأَرْحَامَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ کَانَ عَلَیْکُمْ رَقِیبًا
O mankind! Reverence your Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single person, created, of like nature, His mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women;- reverence Allah, through whom ye demand your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs (That bore you): for Allah ever watches over you.
If the eyes of person do not understand the unity of women and men, their wisdom can recognize it. If persons focus on the unity of God, they will see no duality. These represent reality in different aspects.
If you pay attention, you will see that in new eras, human has been tyrannized with appearance of modernization culture. Persons lived for thousand years and it was not true that women were more important than men. This topic should not be denied that mothers lived with their fathers for centuries
In the religious culture, it was not a question of where woman is, and where man is. Old men and women do not know this language. This language is alien to the religious man and where is the place where the woman is and where the man is and this language is the western language after the Renaissance which with a backward look to religion, was entangled in dichotomy, and the discussion of the rights of men and women were not expressed with a new meaning and we were not women and men, but we were believers togethr.
I do not want to say that now that we have suffered from this disaster, we are not in a position to eliminate it and have a duty to respond to the massive questions posed by the encounter with the culture of modernity and the definition of that culture of the world, but in a space where all the opinions are true, nobody looks to himself or herself to discuss and I am more respected, or he is all submissively committed to duty, and he is fully enjoying such blessings. This is not a glimpse of these questions because we did not look at ourselves in that position until we had to patch ourselves. We were in paradise and we did not look at the pedigree when we watched the face of partner, we looked at God. God damns Satan, who said that you are looking at the tree, to enjoy what is called immortality, where we were in immortality, what caused us to become immortal, except the devil who directed us to the tree of immortality? That somebody comes to say that a woman is more important than a man, or a man was first deprived of unity. We were living, did not have these questions and were in the same thing that you are now chanting falsely that you want us to enter it. They say that you must adhere to the rights of men and women, and I must adhere to them. I have said that anyone who believes in his heart is that a woman is more important or a man and this person does not believe in faith, but this is not in the religious context. As long as a man likes to be hard to have his wife comfortable, the man himself does not feel compassion for himself, and this is the case for a man, he pours himself into the water and fire so his wife is comfortable. Quran states that Satan said in such a situation
فَوَسْوَسَ إِلَیْهِ الشَّیْطَانُ قَالَ یَا آدَمُ هَلْ أَدُلُّکَ عَلَىٰ شَجَرَةِ الْخُلْدِ وَمُلْکٍ لَّا یَبْلَىٰ
But Satan whispered evil to him: he said, "O Adam! shall I lead thee to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?
The problems of the rights of men and women should be searched out of the space of the life. Persons in the charge of culture should recognize ideals that the religion presents for women and families.
Our grandmothers never felt duality toward their husbands so that the superiority of the rights of men over women is not expressed. They shared their goals for life while living together and economic independence in their own affairs. Our grandfathers never said that they died. Those who were educated in the culture of Islam would have seen life above these words. Ayatollah Javadi, "Hafzah Allah" quoted the words of their late Fadhil Toni "Rahmayullah Ali" as saying: "Our classmates in Esfahan, before they entered the school as a formal student, had read the book of Mecasb with their mothers." That is, until about one hundred and fifty years ago, such a space was dominant in our homes. I said that we should not judge the circumstances that, with the testimony of Sheikh Fazlullah Nouri and the rule of intellectuals and the influence of the culture of modernity in society, we separated from our past lives, and became an iconic culture of strangers that, wherever they went, went beyond society. The crisis has fallen into crisis, and we should not consider the kind of society that has suffered a historical breakdown with modern slogans. We drove from Qajar to everything after all, the Qajar people felt themselves as the conqueror of Iran as their Mongol race, and not the genuine Iranian, so fascinated by the West, during which all our past denied, between modernity and tradition, and the crisis began. We had plans for ourselves and for city administration, we had tested the best kind of relationship with nature for a thousand years and formed the best peace of nature. In the religious perspective, the value of man is to be good, not to build a flat, nations should not be compared to Western values, they should be judged against the sacred goals to be achieved, and whether their wisdom and their elites have been able to The basis for reaching those goals in life or not.
Well, once we compare ourselves with the great goals we should get, there are certain backwardness, but we compare our time with the West and the goals that this culture has been considered for human beings, in which case, with the eyes of the West Let's see, this is what we wanted in Paradise to shape our lives with Satan's eyes and, as a result, we were deprived of everything.
Culture with full of crisis
The subject of the West is an emerging phenomenon that searches its life in order to liven up it and expose oneself to others which is an indication of the anesthetics and futility of this civilization. They always created a problem for other nations such as Alexander Maqdoni who rose from Athens and came to these places, and then went to Egypt. It is not clear why it is so because they had not understood meaning in a sacred and transcendental life and they did not live for themselves. One of the loved ones had recognized that the gunpowder for the first time was invented by the Chinese, but they never made balls with it because they invented gunpowder to use it in the their life as gunpowder was given to the Europeans, they made the ball with it and started a plan of rape to other nations. But the Chinese, like the spirit of rape, did not make it a means of rape to other nations. Or the Chinese for the first time invented the compass, but they did not build giants for rebellion to other continents because they wanted to live themselves, but as the compass was given to the hands of Europeans in the same spirit as traveling in the oceans, most of the world's nations were colonized by them and the people of Africa fell into trouble and was destroyed whereas it used to have its own civilization without having prepared itself for aggression. It would seem that all the world should become the valet of the European spirit. It turns out that when this soul and spirit came to the scene, we must be sure that we must be equipped to deal with it, but we realize that human beings lived in their ancient history in such a way that they would go to their holy place before they showed off themselves to other nations. That kind of life could not be a kind of show off.
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