Are womens voices har璽m?
Question: Some people say that it is hal璽l [permitted] for women to talk to n璽-mahram men [not one of the eighteen men whom Islam has prescribed as a womans close relatives]. Is it not har璽m [prohibited]?
ANSWER
It took 23 years for the rules of Islam to be introduced. It is a mistake to deal with those events that took place before the 璽yat commanding (women) to cover themselves was revealed and thus to consider it mub璽h [permissible] for them to talk to n璽-mahram men. Similarly, drinking alcohol had not been a sin before it was forbidden. By instancing the past events that took place, can we say, Drinking alcohol is mub璽h because it was drunk during our Prophets time which was termed the Asr-i-Sa璽dat [Era of Happiness]? In the same way, by giving the cases in former prophets religions as examples, is it said, See, it is permissible (for men) to talk to women? In the religion of Hadrat dam (alaihissal璽m), it was permissible to marry some people who are now har璽m to marry. Afterwards, that permission was lifted. Is it proper to give then rules as examples for present events?
J璽riyas [non-Muslim female slaves captured in war] singing songs cannot be put forth as an example for free women. When Hadrat Umar (rad簾y-Allahu anh) recommended decreasing the amount of mahr, an old woman behind the curtain, in an act of objection, recited the 20th 璽yat of S羶rat-un-Nis璽, which reads: Don’t take anything back from the wife you have divorced, even if you gave her loads (of gold as mahr). Hadrat Umar did not object to that woman.
[mahr: according to Islam, the mahr comprises things like gold, silver, banknotes, or any kind of property or any kind of benefit that is given by a man to the woman he is to marry.]
Some heretics claim, This event shows that a womans voice is not har璽m. But they do not explain that the woman behind the curtain was old; an old womans voice is not har璽m. Some rules which are permissible for old women may not be permissible for the young ones.
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