'' Our Lord ! grant us good in this world and good in the hereafter and save us from the torment of the Fire '' [Ameen]
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Rabbanaa aatinaa fid-dunyaa hasanatan wafil aakhirati hasanatan waqinaa 'athaaban-naar/-
(Surah Al-Baqarah ,verse 201)
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What is the meaning of the Prophet ordering that women should give
alms in the Hadith where he saw most of the occupants of Hell-fire
were women?
Answer
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and blessings and peace be
upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions.
Once Allah's Apostle went out to the Musalla )to offer the prayer(
'Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said,
"O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers
of Hell-fire were you )women(." They asked, "Why is it so, O Allah's
Apostle?" He replied, "You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your
husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and
religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some
of you." The women asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What is deficient in our
intelligence and religion?" He said, "Is not the evidence of two women
equal to the witness of one man?" They replied in the affirmative. He
said, "This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn't it true that
a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?" The women
replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her
religion."
So, when the Prophet saw that women outnumbered men in Hell, he told
them the reason for this and advised them of how to avoid being thrown
in Hell-Fire.
The Prophet also said: "A person who calls people towards doing good
deeds will get the same reward as those who follow him and do good,
and nothing will be diminished from the requital of the latter.
Similarly those, who call the people towards vice will have the same
punishment as those who follow them without any diminution in the
punishment of the perpetrators")Muslim(.
As for the way of safety, Allah describes it as: "Verily, the good
deeds remove the evil deeds )i.e. small )sins(." ]11:114[.
So, Allah ordered women to spend on good to expiate for all the bad
that they do.
In another narration of the same Hadith the Prophet added: "And repent
to Allah".
This Hadith is yet another evidence that the Prophet cares very much
about his Ummah; he has not left any form of good without directing us
to it and he has not left any form of bad without clarifying it to us
and warned us of it.
Allah knows best.
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