Muslim women on mars and Muslim men on Venus.

Walaikum asalam Anzila, how are you :)


You know, we have a perfect model for an Islamic society in the state of Medina which was designed by the Prophet(saw) himself. In the state of Medina, there were women and men who would work together, walk on the streets freely, fight on battle fields together. Even in the masjid there was no separate room for the women, not even a BARRIER. The women would just sit at the back of the room. And I have personally tried it as I was in a class full of boys. Sitting at the back, one can have their own space, no worrying about the wandering eyes of wierdos.

Even in glorious civilisations of Al Andulus, women and men would go to universities together (800 years before the advent of the European Universities of Oxford and Cambridge). Not only this, in Medina women would go to the masjid at fajr time and Esha time when it's dark. This should be enough for those who don't allow women to drive in Saudi. Walking in the dark hours is more dangerous than driving in day light.

Great scholars like Ibn hazam say" My first teachers of Fiqh were women". That is exactly why he wrote an absolute amazing encyclopaedia on marriage. Imam shafiee and Imam Malik had women teachers, who,these great imams,called instrumental in there education. This should be a sufficient answer to those who don't educate women in the prestigious Medina University. And I can go on and on.

If this was what the Messenger (saw) meant when he spoke about segregation, couldnt he(saw) anoint Taif or any other city as an exclusive women's city.

Such alienation of women in Saudi particularly has had very very detrimental consequences. Men and women have forgotten to treat each other as human beings. Muslim men have started treating women as this fitnah, that Allah has sent them. And women have started looking at men as oppressive tyrants, hence leaning towards the western pseudo model of fem liberation. Such alienation also results in the lack of understanding between genders, because there has been no respectable interaction. Hence marriages are a joke leading to exploitation of one or the other. The amount of money they have spent on making this city, I wish they would spend the same amount in the education and mental conditioning of Muslim youth, so that even if placed in a super crowded mall with Megan Fox's walking around they would lower their gaze and act decently. The Prophet (saw) was perfect model of modesty and decency, yet he never isolated women calling them evil beings (that was the ancient Christian and Hindu ideology of eve being an evil temptress).

Regarding what you said about the women feeling comfortable by taking off the abaya and working in normal clothes. Come on Anzila, Saudi Arabia is the most air conditioned country in the entire world. Again the model being Medina, where women,mind you, fought in Badr, uhud, khaiber. On top of their jilbab, they had steel armour.:) they weren't told, "go make a separate battalion". Or even the market place was not made segregated. Women walked freely even in the Jewish markets of Medina. Yes with their hijab, some with their niqab. They had no air conditioning and super light weight clothing material.

Why was this done, because men and women together in utmost modest and respectable manner make up the society. By such stringent measures they are destroying generations of young men and women, who don't know what's its like to live in a world together, and yet maintain modesty, chastity and Haya.
Men and women don't have to be caged separately, they have to be taught how to interact with each other in the most dignified manner.

The Wahhabi fanaticism in the Saudi belt can build these women only malls and cities, but what have they done about the ever escalating pornographic downloads in the Holy Land. When you keep men on mars and women on Venus. This is what happens, that young people turn to the Internet to get a glimpse of what it's like to be on the other side. The wahhabis are champions in calling everything and anything Bidaa, i think this big time Bidaa. If the saudis have so much money to spare there are thousand sof women who have La illah illa Allah in their hearts and they are being violated in Burma, bangladesh,Kashmir, how about sending some of that resource in the rehabillitation of the Ummah.

Our ultimate role model is the Messenger (saw) and the city he built on the foundations of Islam. He (saw) did not build walls between the genders, rather he conditioned the hearts to such amount of Haya that even a wrong gaze was considered a breach of human sanctity.
Men and women were not separated by physical walls but by spiritual walls, in which everyone was a slave of The Lord and hence deserving of utmost respect. Such people didnt have to be told, "wear a lose shirt" or "don't send her a friend request", they knew their limits really well. We need to bring back the Medinan Model of society not go back to the pagan Arab society, where women were nothing more than dirt.

Allahu Ta'ala Aalam.

Wassalaam :)

(This is a part of the discussion I had with my friend Anzila on the impact of women only cities in Saudi)