Islam's Reformers .pdf

her honesty through her reason and thought even if she couldnot find it in the religion. When she gets used to being with boysin her early ages, it will not do her harm when she becomes anadult. It is never harmful for a girl, who has reason and thoughtenough to understand what chastity and honesty are, to go outunvelied as she wants, to go where she wants. Yet this changehas to be made in the process of time. We cannot say toMuslim women, ‘Come on, throw your veils away and act asyou wish.’ We should act very shrewdly. We see that we havenot been able to establish the constitutional government well.Its consequence has been very dismal. Let the woman dressstylishly and gracefully for the time being to satisfy the sense inher creation. Later on, her unveiling will gradually replace. Thegovernment should put the dressing of the woman in an orderfor the time being. Beautifully dressed as she may be, let hercover the parts tempting sexual desires and accept theheadgear and mantle instead of veil. Later on the process willfollow its natural course. Moreover, women are rightful to goabout, to know the pleasures and life. For example, let it be herright to eat in restaurants, to go about, to go to movies andtheatres. Yet, before doing these, men should be prohibitedthrough a law to assault them.”If attention is paid to the religion reformer’s words, it willstrike the eye that they are the plans, programs whichfreemasons prepared centuries ago and have had their mensay in every century. These were said and written by thereligion reformers in the time of the Union Party. When theybrought freemason Reshid Pasha to the fore, they had him saythe same things. When they made the ignorant and ignoblemembers of the Party of Union to seize power by providingweaponry and substantial aid for them, they, on the one hand,had religion reformers say these and, on the other hand, theypassed new laws. They began attacking Islam. I say, “theignoble members of the Party of Union,” because the majority ofthese cruel people, who declared wars stupidly, causedbloodshed of hundreds of thousands of Muslims and killedinnumerable innocent people in dungeons and on gallows, wereignoble. But if Muslims learn their religion well and teach it toyoungsters, the plans of the enemies of Islam will fall down ontheir own heads. Allâhu ta’âlâ declared in the eighth âyat of thesûrat al-Isrâ, “When Islam comes, polytheism and unbelief- 104 -