Social Media will only be Monitored Correctly by the Khilafah

News:

On the 2nd of January 2025, a Twitter video clip went viral showing two Western women in the UAE secretly filming another Muslim woman in a Niqab eating. She was with her husband in a public place and had to lift her veil to eat.

The other two women felt it was something that they could mock and post online as a source of entertainment.

However, their plan backfired when Dubai police were alerted through various complaints from social media users. Local Emirati and other international Muslims took exception to the mocking of Islamic culture. Non-Muslims rejected the acts of the women filming on the basis of public humiliation and filming someone without their consent.

The women were subsequently arrested and have been held in Dubai pending charges of mocking culture.

Comment:

The viral incident reveals several things;

1) It is normal to humiliate the Islamic Culture Internationally; hence, such material can be posted publically with little fear of consequence.

2) Muslim women are not respected for their identity and the media contributed to a negative public opinion.

3) There is no comprehensive Islamic system to defend the millions of women who suffer daily abuse and threats against their visibility as slaves of Allah (swt).

4) Some Muslims supported the free speech rights of Western women.

5) There is no unified body of opinion and solution that agrees with the Quran and Sunnah.
The detention of these Western women does not stop Dubai from being a centre of wrongdoing against the Islamic rights of women and children.

UAE has supported the US bases bombing and killing Muslim women and children globally. Also it is a known and open supporter of the Jewish entity killing and displacing Muslims in Gaza.

The rights of Muslim women are more than the ones discussed in the viral news incident and it must be protected and recognised by the appropriate power - the Khaleefah, on the righteous way of the Prophet (saw).

It has been narrated through a different chain of transmitters; on the authority of Hudhaifa b. al-Yaman who said:                                                                                         

  يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا كُنَّا بِشَرٍّ فَجَاءَ اللَّهُ بِخَيْرٍ فَنَحْنُ فِيهِ
فَهَلْ مِنْ وَرَاءِ هَذَا الْخَيْرِ شَرٌّ؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ». قُلْتُ: هَلْ وَرَاءَ ذَلِكَ الشَّرِّ خَيْرٌ؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ». قُلْتُ: فَهَلْ وَرَاءَ ذَلِكَ الْخَيْرِ شَرٌّ؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ». قُلْتُ: كَيْفَ؟ قَالَ: «يَكُونُ بَعْدِي أَئِمَّةٌ لاَ يَهْتَدُونَ بِهُدَاىَ وَلاَ يَسْتَنُّونَ بِسُنَّتِي وَسَيَقُومُ فِيهِمْ رِجَالٌ قُلُوبُهُمْ قُلُوبُ الشَّيَاطِينِ فِي جُثْمَانِ إِنْسٍ». قَالَ: قُلْتُ: كَيْفَ أَصْنَعُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنْ أَدْرَكْتُ ذَلِكَ؟ قَالَ: «تَسْمَعُ وَتُطِيعُ لِلأَمِيرِ وَإِنْ ضُرِبَ ظَهْرُكَ وَأُخِذَ مَالُكَ فَاسْمَعْ وَأَطِعْ»

O Messenger of Allah, no doubt, we had an evil time (i. e. the days of Jahiliyya or ignorance) and Allah brought us a good time (i.e., Islamic period) through which we are now living. Will there be a bad time after this good time? He (the Holy Prophet) said: “Yes.” I said: Will there be a good time after this bad time? He said: “Yes.” I said: Will there be a bad time after good time? He said: “Yes.” I said: How? Whereupon he said: “There will be leaders who will not be led by my guidance and who will not adopt my ways? There will be among them men who will have the hearts of devils in the bodies of human beings.” I said: What should I do. Messenger of Allah, if I (happen) to live in that time? He replied: “You will listen to the Amir and carry out his orders; even if your back is flogged and your wealth is snatched, you should listen and obey.”

We pray that we may return to the correct method of managing the protection of the rights if the women in Islam in the way that Allah (swt) ordered, inshaAllah.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Imrana Mohammad
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir