 We'll start the conversation is where the assumption comes from. The very first thing I'm going to tell you my dear sisters is that always question assumptions. Where does the assumption that so many of we hear this, we hear this not just by the way it's not just from men. I hear this very often from women too, that a woman should stay at home. It's an assumption. Where does the assumption come from? That's the question. You see when you say a woman's place is her home, it can mean a lot of different things. And this is what we're going to break down together. I have heard in scholarly circles, both men and women, try to use the verse in the Qur'an that talks about, does anyone know the verse? Thank you. Now, those of you who have been attending the Friday Night Holocaust, we're going over the text called, the prohibitions of the tongue. And just a few weeks ago we talked about the prohibition of taking out of context verses of the Qur'an or hadith. You see the Qur'an was revealed in which it has multiple and heavy meanings. And even if you are a native Arabic speaker, you can't just open the Qur'an or even the body of hadith and say, oh I think it means this. Even if that's what seems it like on the surface or seems like a literal explanation of the verse. You see, this ayah is ayah 33 and chapter 33, Al-Ahzab. And it starts out, وقرنا في بيوت كن. But it is right in the middle of a series of verses that come before us. The context is everything. You have to understand, سبب النزول. Why was this ayah revealed? What was the reason for its revelation? There's a series of verses. And it starts out addressing the Prophet ﷺ and his wives. It's a series of verses that talk about at the point of it, is Allah ﷻ saying to the wives of the Prophet ﷺ that you wives are the mothers of the believers you have a special place in Islam. You thereby you have special rules that belong only to you. Furthermore, you have a choice. If you wish the dunya and the embellishments of the dunya, the Prophet can free you and you don't have to be his wife. But if you choose to be a wife of the Prophet ﷺ, you have special rules that apply to you. If you want Allah ﷻ and his Messenger, these are the rules. And this وَقَرْنَ فِي بِيُوتِ كُن is embedded right in the middle of these verses. Because if you look even at verse 32, the verse right before it, and the verses prior to that too, they start out with يَا نِسَاَا أَنَّبِ. O wives of the Prophet ﷺ. It's talking to specific people. And thereby the rules are for a specific set of people. The wives of the Prophet ﷺ. And he says, You are not like any other woman. No, sisters, when people take something from the Qur'an and try to extrapolate it and apply it to everybody, you can see where the problem is. Let me tell you, in case anyone is still feeling a little like, well, hold on, isn't it supposed to be that we understand these are the wives of the Prophet? What about the mothers of the believers who have very special rules even after the death of the Prophet ﷺ? There are certain things they can't do, they can't marry anyone else. They are almost like an intensive training with the Prophet ﷺ to be the educators and teachers because they are the ones who are living directly with him. And they become the teachers of our ummah, right? So, somebody might say, but wait a second, we thought that this was something that people often say in women's places or home, in a women's place, where is it coming from? Now, we have different ethnicities here, so let me try something out. I've heard with my own ears, people who are, and I don't want to, and you please don't be offended by this, but these are true statements that I've heard. I've heard some Moroccan people say, and very similar statement by the way by many of our Pakistani community who will say something to the effect of the woman only should leave her home twice. Have you heard this? She leaves her home, probably other ethnicities too, I'm sure. She leaves her home, her father's home, to her husband's home, and from her husband's home to the... So, you know this statement. And you know it so well that you immediately quoted it. Or I can't do the Persian subhanAllah, but our Afghan sisters will say, and you have to help me with the wording here, that woman should either be home, or what? Or in the grave. So you know the statement. Nonsense. When I was younger, I think I would have been a lot more careful in PC and careful in my wording, and I think after all the years of therapy that I've done and counseling of families and people, this is cultural nonsense.