iCAN SAMA-O-BASR is very glad to publish this book that can be a useful resource for the women workers of the Islamic movement across the globe. Based on an article, originally published in the Urdu language in the monthly Tarjuman Al-Quran (February 2017), this book articulates some of the important points regarding the tarbiyyah of the women members of the Islamic movements and the fields of education that they need to focus on in order to be successful against challenges of the coming times. In order to
further elaborate on the points mentioned in the original article, we
have provided some additional explanatory comments and footnotes. One of the significant additions in this regard is the inclusion of a brief biography of the first leader of the Women Wing of JI, Hameeda Begum. Her biography and life achievements are a real motivation for any worker of the movement. If we can create leaders like her among our sisters, inshaAllah the depth and breadth of our dawah will increase manifolds and we will be able to share this message of the Deen to the communities and masses that we are currently unable to connect with. We hope that the women workers of the Islamic movement across the globe will find it to be a beneficial resource.
To begin with, we would like to present a quote from the founder of the movement, Maulana Syed Abul Aala Maududi highlighting the important role that the women have to play in the cause of the Iqamat Ad-Deen:
“In the court of Allah swt, one cannot acquire anything for which one has not strived for. That is the reason why both men and women have to work to achieve their own salvation.
Everyone should wholeheartedly work on the tasks that would make them successful and prevent them from punishment and shame on the day of judgment. At this moment, the real task that the women are required to perform is that they should make an effort to clean and protect their families, their relatives, their neighbors, and their acquaintances from shirk, ignorance, and misguidedness. They should strive to create an Islamic culture in their homes. Their objective should be to spread the light of the knowledge of the Deen among the uneducated or less educated women. They should exert
themselves in fixing the ideologies and thought-process of the educated women. They should fight the decease of being oblivious to God and being unmindful of the Islamic way of life that is prevalent in much of the upper class. They should try to stop the spread of this disease. They should raise their children upon Islam. If their husbands are entrapped in a sinful way of life and wrong-doings and are deviated away from the path, they should strive to bring them back on to the straight path. If their husbands are already working for the Deen of Allah swt and offering their services to the cause, then
as wives they should aid them in their cause through their assistance and support. Understand this point well; No one has more right, or even an equal right, on you as do Allah swt and His Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم – be it your parents, your brothers or sisters, your husband, or your children. No one deserves that to keep him happy and pleased, you disobey Allah swt and His
Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم. No one should be dearer to you than Allah swt, His Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and His Deen. No one should have that much fear in your heart that in his fear, you become oblivious to Allah swt. If your condition becomes like this, then the path of the Deen would become very easy for you. No force will be able to stop you and deviate you away from this path.”
With this, let’s start the booklet and pray to Allah swt to accept this effort from everyone involved and make it a source of forgiveness for the author, the translator, and the iCAN SAMA-O-BASR team.
Editorial Staff,
iCAN SAMA-O-BASR
Perth, Jan 2021
