The Selective Gheerah !

Throughout the years on social media, we notice that when it comes to a sister revealing her face online or when you see the opposite genders flirting or mixing, many of us are like lions in those types of settings! Dropping Ayaat of Quraan, Ahadtih, Fatawa, various opinions of scholars, etc… We’re right on top of shutting that fitnah down immediately by enjoining the good and forbidding the evil. We do this because we claim to have Gheerah. Alhumdulillah that’s great and we should keep it up.

But the thing which makes one scratch their head is, when these exact same people who are encouraging the good, forbidding the evil, and who claim to have this tremendous Gheerah for their sisters. Why then don’t they have this same Gheerah for our sisters all around the world, especially and in particular the sisters in the camps? Since we can actually send aid to them unlike many others ! Why are we so selective with our Gheerah?!? Where does that tremendous zeal and that exceptional Gheerah for our sisters disappear to? Why is our attitude not lion-like when it comes to helping them and their likes? Is there any daleel which states we should only have Gheerah for a certain group of sisters and not have Gheerah for another group of sisters? Are we going to allow the kuffaar to dictate and stigmatize for us who we can and should help and who we can’t and shouldn’t help? Because see, if we’re sincere with ourselves and actually had Gheerah like many of us eloquently claim, then we wouldn’t hesitate to help them and their likes. What’s the difference in having protective jealousy over those sisters who expose themselves online and over these sisters in the camps, except that these sisters in the camps and their likes are just as much in need of your Gheerah, if not more! Especially when one considers the seriousness of their situation! If you claim to have Gheerah, then that Gheerah shouldn’t just be restricted and limited to the brothers and sisters on social media or only for the sisters who are living in the West! It should be applied in all settings and in all situations!
 

We currently have hundreds of thousands of sisters who are under the control of the kuffaar and we the ones who are sitting on the sidelines and watching everything can easily, at the very least send some aid to them from the comfort of our homes. But what do we instead of doing what’s incumbent/Fard upon us all? We just, “Make Dua’a" and tell them to “Have Sabr !”

Every one of us should imagine this please, because this is our pathetic, cowardice, hypocritical, double standard, state and we need examples like this to get us thinking on the right track! Imagine if your wife, daughter, or mother was about to be raped or killed, would you let the aggressors do whatever they wanted with them?? Would you say, “I’m just gonna go sit here on the side and make Dua’a and tell them to have Sabr while letting the filthy kuffaar and Rafidha do whatever they want with my wife, my daughter, and my mother???” This is exactly the pathetic mentality, so many of us have adopted!! That’s exactly what we do!! Why do majority of us have double standards when it comes to our honorable sisters? A couple of days ago, you were like a lion on the sisters who were exposing their faces and intermingling with the opposite sex on social media, but when it comes to these sisters in the camps, suddenly, you’re a mute!! Or apparently the maximum you can do is “Make Dua’a” for them, when we all know that’s not really the maximum you can do. Allahu Akbar! What an excellent cowardice methodology many of us have adopted.

The Sahabah didn’t just sit around and ‘Make Dua’a’ and ‘Have Sabr’. They worked extremely hard, aside from making Dua’a and having Sabr! They went out and fought, gave da’wah, sacrificed their time, wealth, and lives for the sake of Allah, and they were leading by being exceptional examples themselves! What do we do today? We forget all the sacrificing, all the hard work, all the actions, and we go straight to “Dua’a and Sabr”! If that were the case then why would Allah reveal in Surah Tawbah, commanding the people to ‘Act’?

“And say (unto them, O Prophet): "Act!” [9:105] 

We're not talking to the brothers only because there are plenty of sisters today who earn much more money than many brothers! Or those sisters who have hoarded so much gold and jewelry in their hidden treasuries. And they think that just because they’re females, they’re excused from any type of responsibility. No! It applies to you as well! So, don’t let shaytaan or your Nafs delude you from these obligations!

A sister in the camp related to someone the other day, that someone saw a sister picking up rotten vegetables from the ground and she would take these rotten vegetables back and cook them and then feed them to her family! Where’s your exceptional Gheerah for this sister and her likes??? Who is more in need of your Gheerah than these honorable women whose husbands, brothers, and sons died or were imprisoned while fighting for the sake of Allah? What kind of warped sense of Gheerah do we have?

And please don’t misunderstand that by no means should we undermine or degrade making Dua’a or having Sabr, as that’s essential. It’s just that almost every single one of us can contribute in some way other than just Dua’a, but we choose not to! If just a small group of us started fundraising to help these sisters it would have a huge impact! It was told that one person single-handedly was able to provide food for over 100 families in the camps! If that’s just one person then imagine what 10 or 20 people can do SubhanAllah.