Or expressing the real agony of them?
To become a liberal women in the modern society, is it
a fashion to criticize Islam and its all concept even Quran?
Or is it real apathy and agony arise from the experiences
and miseries of muslim women? How we consider if it
is from women among Muslim society? consequences of Thaslima Nasrin, a Bangledshi muslim
woman writer, it is from Indian women who dare to to
,write novels and eassys (Amina Davood)
critisizing Islam and its common
concepts and dogmas, some of them are in the way of
declaring themselves that they are in the circle of Islam
but against commonly misunderstood Islamic dogmas.
Here a novel,BARSA, from malayalee muslim woman
writer,Kadeeja Mumtaz . Barsa means disclosed face.
In the novel she criticize purdha, so called gender
inequality in Islam, ignorance of woman feeling , she says, especially when
Allah advice prophet Ebrahim to sacrifice his son
Ismail, without considering feeling of his mother,Hajara
. Why women not consider even as a human being ,she
asks in book and narrates the emotion and feeling of
Hajara as a mother .
But in aesthetical aspect, when I read the book I felt a
bore reading. It is a fact that one who read Kamala
Surayya’s short story, he will disappoint by reading this
book, in its artistic sense.
Sarroundings of the novel is a hospital inMecca and
heroin of the novel is a doctor practicing there who
recently came there from Kerala. I recommend to read
this book only in the basis that if you want know the
criticizing point of a Keralite Muslim Woman who dare
to do so.
Wahab payyoli
2 comments:
I have not read Basra. But on the basis of viewing Muslim women in Kerala I can tell that
1. Majority of them, even in South Kerala nowadays cover their head. (I have difference of opinion about its so much publicized importance by women leaving many other Islamic things to back).
2. Due to the work of various religious organizations, television programs,publications and web sites they are studying about Islam.
3. Women have more zeal to do religious deeds than men.
4. However, during campus life morality of many of them is not good as their elders had in the same age.
5. Muslim women are free to think and decide their own approach in life, which is against some misunderstanding about this community by some non-Muslims.
6. Though most of them are housewives they are leading a happy life like working women.
7. In education they are trying to be forward and reach the average educational level of Syrian Christians and Nairs. (For this backwardness own community should bear its responsibility).
8. Even though many of their husbands are working in low profile jobs in KSA and UAE they don't feel any extraordinary difficulty for money sacrificing their mental loneliness.
And the same now got Kerala Sahithya Academy Award
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