Have Gheerah Over Your Women!

Gheerah = Protective Jealousy [There is no exact translation in English, as far as I am aware]

I was meant to make this into a video more than a year ago but I got around to doing it now. Here is the text version:

During the third century hijri, the qaadi of Rayy and Ahwaaz, Musa bin Ishaaq, sat to adjudicate people's disputes.

Among the litigants was a woman who claimed five hundred dinars mahr from her husband. The husband denied the claim. The qaadi said to the husband, "Bring your witnesses." The husband said, "I have brought them." The qaadi said to one of the witnesses, "Look at the wife so you may point her out during testimony." The witness stood up and said to the woman, "Stand." Upon this, the husband said, "What do you want from her?" The husband was told, "It is necessary that the witness sees your wife unveiled so that he may know that it is your wife." The husband detested his wife unveiling her face for the witnesses in public. He screamed, saying, "I make the qaadi my witness that this mahr of my wife is an obligation on me, and she must not unveil her face!" When the wife heard this, she thought it was wonderful that her husband disapproved of her unveiling her face before the witnesses, and was protecting her from the sight of people. She too said aloud at the qaadi, "I make you a witness that I have granted my mahr to him, and have absolved him in this dunya and the aakhirah!" The qaadi said to those around him, "Record this as a moral standard."

from Tarbiyat Al-Awlaad Fil Islaam

Forgive me for any mistakes.

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[IstinaBEPA]

I think it's important to note that this is being protective over your wife, not controlling and possessive. Modern women might feel oppressed by such behavior but that is a result of their "freedom of expression" aka "if you've got it, flaunt it. I say as a Muslimah that I would be honored if my husband worried about me like that. Unfortunately, the wandering eyes are not exclusively non-muslim.

[JihadOfTheSoul]

@IstinaBEPA

There is a big difference between being "possessive" and having gheerah for your woman [as to say].

However walhamdulilaah you understand that, i initally thought you were saying the opposite, may Allaah reward you.

[manaligal]

MaashaaAllah

[abdullahalmahmood]

the companions i think whom were most known for their incredible amount gheerah towards their women were

'Umar

'Aliyy

Az-Zubayr IbnAl-'Awaam

Sa'da Ibn 'Ubaadah al-ansaari and many others

[1999swam]

May Allah reward you. Very good sense of...........everything you have :)

[786afz]

SubhanAllah! How protected would this woman feel :)

[Dawahulislam]

Allahu Akbar, how beautiful is islam!