The Divine Connect

Somewhere along the way, we started talking about Islam as though it were a rulebook written primarily for women.

Her hijab.
Her clothes.
Her marriage.
Her divorce.
Her behaviour.

But what about our Salah?
Our Zakat?
Our self-control?
Our honesty?
Our anger?
Our gaze?
Our treatment of the vulnerable?
Our Huqooq-ul-Ibaad?

Hijab is Fard. Period.

But so is Salah.
So is Zakat.
So is fasting.
So are justice, honesty, restraint and fulfilling the rights of people.

The Qur'an does not ask men to become spectators of women's modesty. It asks believing men to lower their gaze too.

It doesn't ask women to carry the entire burden of preserving morality. It asks all of us to obey Allah.

Perhaps the uncomfortable question isn't whether women are following Islam enough.

Perhaps it's whether we have reduced Islam to the parts that are easiest to demand from someone else.

The Qur'an wasn't revealed for women alone.

And our Islam shouldn't be reduced to women alone.

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