dawahforever
Junior Member
Asalaamu Alaikum
Ok here's the scenario..we are invited to a waleemah..supposed to start at 5..but dinner is not served until 8Pm! By this time the kids are starving but we are not allowed to feed them because the food police are on patrol. But I get up anyway and give my daughter a drink and give my son a peice of food..he's a baby for crying out loud. At this point I am really feeling upset and so is my friend who has been fasting and only had a bite to break her fast! So finally the bride comes and they say we can eat...actually we cannot eat..oh no...only the men can eat first!!!!!! So while the kids starve a little longer the big healthy men grab the food! My fasting friend who is arab asks the Pakistani woman ( the marriage is for a pakistani) why the men get to eat first and she says just because. So I see my hubby in line and complain to him for the sake of my 1 yr old and 3 yr old and gets me a plate of food to give to them. Can you imagine this? And this marriage was to a convert...I cannot even imagine if her family had been there...I would have been so ashamed at that moment of the rotten behaviour in the mosque. When oh when will muslims give up their non-Islamic habits. This subjugation of women goes back to the hindus. Its time to start treating women and children like first class citizens. This is what Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) fought for so hard for the rights of the weak and helpless.
Ok here's the scenario..we are invited to a waleemah..supposed to start at 5..but dinner is not served until 8Pm! By this time the kids are starving but we are not allowed to feed them because the food police are on patrol. But I get up anyway and give my daughter a drink and give my son a peice of food..he's a baby for crying out loud. At this point I am really feeling upset and so is my friend who has been fasting and only had a bite to break her fast! So finally the bride comes and they say we can eat...actually we cannot eat..oh no...only the men can eat first!!!!!! So while the kids starve a little longer the big healthy men grab the food! My fasting friend who is arab asks the Pakistani woman ( the marriage is for a pakistani) why the men get to eat first and she says just because. So I see my hubby in line and complain to him for the sake of my 1 yr old and 3 yr old and gets me a plate of food to give to them. Can you imagine this? And this marriage was to a convert...I cannot even imagine if her family had been there...I would have been so ashamed at that moment of the rotten behaviour in the mosque. When oh when will muslims give up their non-Islamic habits. This subjugation of women goes back to the hindus. Its time to start treating women and children like first class citizens. This is what Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) fought for so hard for the rights of the weak and helpless.