THE LAMENT OF HAZRAT MAULANA ASHRAF ALI THANWI REGARDING WOMEN'S SINFUL EMERGENCE
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THE LAMENT OF HAZRAT MAULANA ASHRAF ALI THANWI REGARDING WOMEN'S SINFUL EMERGENCE
Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullah alayh), regarding whose status as a Mujaddid (mujaddid-e-millat) there is general agreement amongst the Ulama of Deoband, states in Beheshti Zewar:
“The attendance of women in all types of functions is not permissible (na-jaaiz). Other than (attendance at) functions, women have become so shameless that they think nothing of emerging from their homes using just any excuse. Whenever they have a desire, they leave the home to visit friends or the sick or to go and congratulate someone on some happy occasion …..
Due to much corruption it is not at all proper for women to emerge from their homes and move around here and there. The only permission they have from the Shariah is to occasionally visit their parents and other mahram relatives. However, as far as the other relatives are concerned, women may visit them once or twice a year. Other than this, it is not permissible for them to go elsewhere carelessly as has become the practice. Neither should they visit relatives nor participate in marriage functions nor in functions of sorrow nor visit the sick nor go to wish and congratulate anyone.
In fact, if there happens to be a wedding function then it is not permissible for them to go to even the houses of their mahram relatives. If a woman emerges from her home with the permission of her husband, then he also becomes a sinner just as she is a sinner. Alas! Nowhere is this Law of the Shariah (Hukm) observed. Of greater lament is that people do not even consider female emergence to be sinful. On the contrary, they believe it to be permissible. Ponder! All the corruption in society is the consequence of this practice (of women emerging out of their homes to attend functions and gatherings). It is imperative to abandon this (evil) practice and to do Taubah (repent)."