Addressing women, Allah says in the Qur’an: ‘Stay in your homes.’ [Quran 33:33], meaning that the woman’s duties should be related to and around the home. In modern times, the woman has become an external showcase for a broader audience, where in Islam, a woman has an important internal duty of caring for her home, her family, and her children. Some may refer to this as being a “housewife,” which, in today’s society, holds no respect. Now, what would be more respectable–cooking at a restaurant for hundreds of strangers or cooking for one’s family and children? The wife and mother are the role models for the success of the future generations. They have the power to make a home or break a home. With this much power, is it fair to say that the “housewife” is useless in society? She is like the head of state, devoting herself to making her home an ideal one. She has the major responsibilities of housekeeping, taking care of everyone else’s needs before her own, management of all affairs, and most importantly, raising the children as devout, pious, righteous Muslims, which, today, in this western-influenced society is difficult.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:42:04 +0000
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