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In a recent Friday sermon in Qatar, Bahraini cleric Adel Hasan Al-Hamad said that Jews and Christians, out of envy for the "beautiful close-knit fabric" of the Muslim family, were trying to destroy the Muslim family by propagating equality between the sexes. Only a "brainless lunatic" would say that men and women are equal, said Al-Hamad, pointing out that according to the Prophet Muhammad, a wife should lick the oozing pus of her husband's wounds. Al-Hamad 's son was killed in Syria in May 2013 while fighting in the ranks of Jabhat Al-Nusra. The sermon was broadcast on the Saudi 4Shabab TV channel on April 25, 2014.
Following are excerpts
Adel Hasan Al-Hamad: This nation, which was honored by Allah with this great religion, has a beautiful and comprehensive law, encompassing all aspects of life. So beautiful is the shari’a that the Jews and the Christians envy us, and strive to drag us away from it.
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The problem arises when we are not aware of their envy, and we blindly follow the envious conduct and the conspiracies of the Jews. We are making a grave mistake. I’d like to give you an example of something for which the Jews and Christians envy us, and which they try to destroy: the family. The beautiful, close-knit fabric of the [Muslim] family does not exist among the Jews and the Christians.
You alone have it – well-organized families whose members know their rights and duties, in which the wife respects her husband, in which the husband fulfills his responsibilities toward his wife and children, in which the children honor their father and mothers, and in which people do not forsake their mothers until they die.
You cannot find such a thing among the Jews or the Christians. You cannot find among them a family in the true sense of the word. They have girlfriends, who give them children, and twenty years later they are still wondering whether to marry them or not. They have mothers but they don’t know where they are. He sends his mother a greeting card if she is in a retirement home, and is very happy because at least her son remembered her, even if she has not seen him for a long time.
Worse still, some of them know their mother, but do not know who their father is. He knows his mother, but not how he came into this world, and who was involved in begetting him. He doesn’t know, because his mother had been with many men. This baseness, this family disintegration, compared to the cohesion of your family, has led them to envy you. They are so envious that they want to rob you of your blessing.
They want you to be like them – lost, scattered, strangers to one another. Children are estranged from their fathers and do not know their mothers. Wives do not respect their husbands, and men are not aware of their rights. Ultimately, the family is lost. This is how envious they are. How do they strive to achieve this? Their envy has led them to take several measures to destroy the Muslim family in Muslim countries.
One of their initial steps was to try to postpone the building of our families. The establishment of families in Muslim societies spells doom for the Jews and the Christians. Therefore, they strive to postpone the building of each and every family. How? In several ways: They raised the minimum age for marriage, for both men and women, by legislating international laws.
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In addition in order to postpone the establishment of families, they persuade girls that their studies are more important than marriage. Thus, if someone asks to marry a girl who is a university student, she says: “I want to complete my studies.” Who put this idea into her head?
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They deluded men and women into believing in an historic battle between the sexes. You have probably heard about the calls for women’s liberation. You probably heard that women want to “wrest” their rights – as if those rights had been taken from them and placed in a suitcase, and a man had snatched the suitcase and run away. Where do they get these expressions, these ideas?
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Another means they employ to dissolve the family from within is to diminish the value of men. In Islam, the man is highly valued. Generally speaking, Allah preferred men over women. The male sex is better than the female, as is written in the Book of Allah.
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But the Jews and the Christians wish to diminish your value, oh men. They came up with the call for “equality between the sexes,” which means that you should be on a par with women. It means that men and women should have the same rights and duties. This is something that only a brainless lunatic would say.
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One of the great values of Islam is that the man is great, and that a woman has great obligations towards her man. A woman would find it hard to live up to these obligations until her death. She cannot really fulfill her obligations towards her husband. The Prophet Muhammad said: “If I had ordered any human to bow before another, I would have ordered wives to bow before their husband.” That is how great a wife’s obligations towards her husband are.
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In order to demonstrate the degree of a wife’s obligations, the Prophet Muhammad said that if a man had a wound anywhere from head to toe – even if his wife licked the oozing pus with her tongue, she still would not have lived up to her obligations towards him.
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