Great news from Kuwait

Assalamu'alaikum,

What can be better for a woman than being free to stay at home to take care of her children, take them out, have fun and bring up family values in them, to be there to attend to them at any time, experiment with new dishes in the kitchen... provided, of course, that husband fulfills his responsibilities.

Or is it better if a woman were to just dump kids at the day care centre every morning, go to work and exhaust herself towards the seeming end of the day, grab some fast-food dinner on the way home, traffic jam, pick up the kids from the day care centre, attend to them, laundry, clean up, changing, shower, homework... a lullaby? You must be crazy!... all that when she thought her working day was over. 

Women in the West are shackled with their work, yet they dare to talk about liberation of women in the Muslims society... they bring up children who don't quite care about their parents, just because the latter were too occupied at their workplace... possibly their objective (of "concerned" women in the West) is to swap places?

Assalamu alaikum,

Kim says: "Society is not set up for mothers, children and families."

This is true of non-Muslim society.  In Islam, the family comes first (after worship of Allah).  Marriage, children, family are all considered with the highest priority.  Men are the providers, which allows women to stay home and take care of the family. 

And, families take care of their own "old people", they don't put them in costly nursing  homes or 'retirement' homes.

One of the things that drew me to Islam was the beautiful way Islamic society functions.  Now, of course, I am not saying this ideal actually plays out in real life in all Muslim communities.  But, when Muslims live their Islam correctly, a well functioning, happy - family, community, and society is the result.

Now, if we could all just get our act together and live Islam the way Allah meant for us - wow!  Mean time, we need to help those who struggle.

Peace, ummziba.

Assalamu alaikum,

herjihad wrote:  Each situations is different.  It's so easy to stand up and proffer what society should be like when women and children are suffering daily difficulties.  Let's stop ignoring our community needs!  Let's help each person and family together.

Sister, I believe we are all "tooting the same horn", just using different melodies!  No one here is advocating ignoring our community needs.  Most of us are saying, yes, let's help each person and family!

There is the ideal: living Islam - then there is the reality...we all know what that means.  So, yes, let's all do our best to help those who need it!

Peace, ummziba.

Bismillah,

May Allah, SWT, bless the moms, stay-at-home and working.  ISA he will give us strength and courage to face all of the challenges we encounter.  Challenges are also called opportunites.  Each challenge we address gives us the chance to fulfill more responsibilities and Allah, SWT, showers blessings on us, ISA.