There are significant differences in jurisprudence regarding the hijab(veil), Some claim it is obligation, while others claim it is merely a custom that people have adopted, Therefore, many women see no need for the hijab, so they have removed it, and this is their right and choice, Furthermore, the subjugation of women is not limited to the imposition of the hijab itself, The hijab is one manifestation of subjugation, not the whole of it, The liberation of women is not limited to removing a piece of cloth placed before their eyes,The dominance and subjugation practiced by patriarchy and religion has many facets, some of which are considered more important than the hijab.
Being able to rebel against deeply rooted and ancient traditions and rulings is the basis for solving the problem, That is, the woman must be able to control her life, Here the economic factor plays a pivotal role, Whoever depends on others spending on him puts himself in their hands and pays his freedom as the price of material need, especially in the presence of that legal barbarity that allows the man to divorce his wife whenever he wants, The woman who practices rebellion without material ability is practicing a kind of suicide, The least harm of rebellion without material ability is that she turns into a servant by day and a slave by night at the same time.
The important thing regarding getting rid of male dominance is the woman’s ability to support herself, despite the existence of other obstacles regarding liberation. Among these obstacles, we mention the fabricated social segment, primarily composed of some veiled women, who are unable to remove the veil for many reasons, and why does so-and-so enjoy life without a veil! While I am supposed to accept the death of the veil while I am alive and well!!! In addition to the envious ones from the flock of veiled women, there is the flock of scholars, who do not want a woman to escape from their grasp.
Confronting the segment of envious women and the segment of scholars is not impossible, but it is truly tiring and difficult, Sometimes the rebellious woman, i.e. the divorced woman, becomes exposed to new dangers such as being forced to marry a second time under the conditions of her first marriage. That is, the situation may be repeated, i.e. the paper marriage, i.e. the marriage contract, which is fraught with risks, is repeated. Here, it should be mentioned that there are many cases of divorce after immigration to European countries immediately after their arrival in those countries. Statistics say that 5,000 wives were divorced from their husbands in the first three months after arriving in Germany, Social security provided divorced women with financial security and enabled them to break free from male dominance.
There is no doubt that the economic factor is very important, but the cultural factor is extremely important in liberating women from the coercive collective consciousness to which they are subjected, Education is a very important factor, because education fulfills many conditions of liberation at once, including the material and economic ones through the ability to work and thus earn money, and then the possibility of self-realization with a self-defined will, means, and goal, i.e., achieving what the woman wants, and not absolute submission to what is imposed on her.
Many other liberating factors can be mentioned, In short, it can be said that the liberation of women is linked to the liberation of society as a whole and to the prevailing culture, especially the jurisprudential one, We must know that Syrian women obtained the right to vote before women obtained this right in many European countries such as Switzerland,Women obtained the right to vote after the French Mandate introduced the practice of voting, as the Ottoman era and the Arab Quraysh era did not know this right, and even religion does not recognize this right.
Despite the great progress of Syrian women during the French Mandate and after the departure of France, many of these rights gradually evaporated, after religious fundamentalism was able to gradually regain its activity after the departure of France. In the 1954 elections, the Muslim Brotherhood obtained 5% of the votes of female and male voters, and the veil was almost extinct. Now Syrian society has become “Qubaysi” veiled, and the 5% percentage in the election is no longer realistic at all, and the same applies to other areas.
All those backward developments are not due to the achievements of the Brotherhood, but rather to the inability of the French Mandate era to create a solid progressive consciousness in Syrian society,Progressive consciousness was “fragile” for many reasons, including the short period of the Mandate, compared to the long period of Ottoman colonialism and Arab Bedouin colonialism. France left a “shell” of civilization, the destruction of which began with the first coup in 1949, Despite the repeated coups, the shell held up relatively until 1958, After Nasser and the union in 1958, the vertical collapse began and the return to the Ottoman-Arab Bedouin spirit began, until the country reached what it reached.
The liberation of women is a humanitarian goal that is not easy to achieve in a despotic, superficially religious society in which both women and men suffer from being held hostage to collective concepts, most of which are rigid jurisprudential and sacred, and which are resistant to development, without having the material ability to organize their lives, which are dominated by religious rulings that the male has appointed himself as the guardian of their implementation, The male wolf has turned into the tail of an executive authority for the will of the pack of wolves.
For an economically vulnerable woman, the only option is to sell her body as her sole source of income at a certain age, But what happens when her body withers and is no longer marketable? Therefore, women must be empowered to achieve a degree of independence and economic security, As long as economic security is lacking, she will sell her body. The verse, “So for that [enjoyment] which you have had from them, give them their due compensation as an obligation” (Quran 4:24), doesn’t this constitute a clear call to transform the body into a source of income, effectively legalizing prostitution? The phrase “their due compensation” in the verse does not refer to a dowry, as unmarried women do not have one, and a dowry cannot provide lifelong economic security, Is this how God intended His creation, woman, to be? To engage in prostitution simply to eat or starve to death?
European women do not starve when they do not sell their bodies and when dowry does not represent economic security for them, Therefore, it is not permissible to talk about sexual promiscuity in the West, There are sexual practices that are free from material coercion,As for this region, sex, according to quran , is reserved for renting, buying, and selling, and is a source of economic security for those who possess a body that can be sold, The stagnation of the body, for example, in old age means the necessity of dependence on others, such as children, And on whom does a woman who has not given birth depend? Does she depend on a second wife, for example?
