I am just pointing you to this website to understand about Huris
The women of paradise
And passing on this message by the author Dara Shayda the Eyeless Lion.
n Your Name I read that which I read
Hur: Women of Paradise
http://www.untiredwithloving.org/hur.htm
The Qur'anic phrases with regards to women and their attributes are
almost fully misunderstood in Arabic and mistranslated in English.
Much of what we read today in English translations of Qur'an/Hadith
or what Arabs find within themselves reading about women are by
products of sexual deviance of the Orientalists who mistranslated
much of the middle eastern books to fit their dreamy imagery of
Thousand and One Nights, that Qur'an/Hadith and much of the
Arab/Middle East world has nothing to do with.
In this humble attempt a linguistic curtain is lifted to present the
original feel of the language of the Arab when it comes to female
terms specially Quranic verses dealing with the females of Paradise.
You may read from the Grand Sheikhs: Tustari, Ibn Khatib and
Grammarian Tha'labi. You may also find a long forgotten Hadith with
regards to the superiority of the women of this world to that of the
Hur!
5 comments:
houris are for women too !
That got me reflect on us Malay women nowadays as compared to those few centuries ago. I believe Malay women centuries ago are much more feminine and conform better to the Islamic values i.e. taking of their aurah as best as possible...Allahualam.
Nurelhuda- you busy lecturing ke tu?
Nurelhuda
Lovely article. For some people, trust in God that He will give us females our dues is enough, but at the same time, it is great to see the proof for it too! Thanks for sharing.
BTW a neighbour's daughter is named Hour-al-Ain. ;)
DITH
Perhaps it can depend on which group of Malay women we look at. The hijab, for example is a recent phenomenon... unless of course there is a less well-known custom of Malay women observing hijab. (You know like in old movies you see the oft-slipping kain sarung being used as hijab. Accurate ke?) But yeah I agree we were more feminine then. But Malay women I feel are quite feminine anyway, compared to other races, we lie in between the Chinese (I think less feminine? but this is my opinion) and the Indians (wowee super feminine. Dictates of culture).
But I find it interesting that there are tales of female Malay warriors back then, ie Tun Fatimah during the last days of the Malaccan Empire, and the concept of serikandi is quite well known in our culture.
drroza: i believe the term nowadays for the "feminine, sopan santun Malay woman" is perempuan melayu terakhir :P
it's indeed a very fascinating article, especially that part that mentioned about the Arabic situation that never calls a woman by their names or their gender... Arabic must be the most definitive and specific language ever.
Salam
DITH, Kenakalayan and Crimson, I will respond to all of you here.I think in the past when life was much more leasurely , people were more emotionally and spiritually intelligent. Of course they may have been in some ways not relgiously correct in that they practised religion as they knew it and as best they could so I do think Muslims in Malaysia were never taught to strictly oover their hair. Covering as it is done now seems to be a new concept,where even seurat rambut is not to be seen because it means hell fire..rather odd don t you think that one can go to hell because of hair exposed? Indeed we have hadith that indicated the Prophet did ask hair to be covered but how it was done is not really known .As for feminity I think what I see in Malay women is called haya , which is an arabic term that means modesty. It is haya which makes women not talk about private things except when absolutely necessary and which makes them undress only in private.This haya is something that is passed on culturally and also bred by a high religious sensitivity and seems to be almost missing in some people especially in some cultures which do not have a strong moral sense.As for femininity , I think this is individual , some women have it more than others..perhaps it is a dress sense and a sense of beauty and an artistic nature ?
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