Women have the right to be mujtahids
ISLAM LIBRARY | Women have the right to be mujtahids | Nazirah, like other female activists, works and fights to defend her oppressed people, especially women. It challenged the authority of men in many respects, including the authority of religious knowledge. The condescending and discriminatory way of looking at the interpretation experts is all-out criticism or him, women have the same rights as men and have the right to be anything. Women also have the right to be interpreters of sacred texts, both the Koran and the hadith of the Prophet. Women have the right to become “mujtahid” (mujtahidah).
Women have the right to be mujtahids
I found a female scholar or female scholar as well as a social and political activist. Her name is Nazirah Zainuddin. More than an activist, for me she is a scholar and "Alimah" . He was born in Aleppo, Iraq (1908-1976) who later settled in Egypt.
Not only that, she is one of the leading feminists in the Muslim world. Her name can be compared to other Egyptian Muslim feminist figures such as Malak Hifni Nashif, Aisyah Taimuriyah, Nabawiyah Musa, May Ziyadah and Huda Sya'rawi, Rifa'ah al-Tahtawi, Mohammad Abduh, Qasim Amin and Sa'ad Zaghlul, and Tahir al-Tahtawi. Haddad in Tunisia, to name just a few.
Nazirah, like other female activists, works and fights to defend her oppressed people, especially women. It challenged the authority of men in many respects, including the authority of religious knowledge. The condescending and discriminatory way of looking at the interpretation experts is all-out criticism.
"God cannot possibly be discriminatory towards humans," he said. For him, women have the same rights as men and have the right to be anything. Women also have the right to be interpreters of sacred texts, both the Koran and the hadith of the Prophet. Women have the right to become “mujtahid” (mujtahidah).
Nazirah's book
Nazirah wrote two books to discuss this issue; “Al-Sufur wa al-Hijab” and “Al Fatat wa al-Syuyukh” . Literally "Al-Sufur" means without a veil, open and "al-Hijab" means barrier or curtain. Although it later developed into meaning hijab or veil. Meanwhile, Al-Fatat wa al-Syuyukh, means young women and old people.
In this last book, Nazirah states that women have the right to interpret the Qur'an and write fiqh. He said:
أجل إنه كما كان للمرأة أن تشترك فى الحكم الشرعي، أن لها الحق الصريح أن تشترك فى الاجتهاد الشرعي تفسيرا وتأويلا. بل إنها أولى من الرجل بتفسير الايات القائم فيها واجبها وحقها لأن صاحب الحق والواجب أهدى اليهما من غيره سبيلا.
"Of course, if women have the right to be involved in religious laws, they also have the right to carry out ijtihad either through tafsir (exoteric understanding) or takwil (esoteric understanding). "In fact, women are more appropriate and relevant to interpret verses related to their rights and obligations, because they understand their own problems better than other people." (p. 179).
The book Al Sufur wa al Hijab, written by Nazhirah Zainuddin, is one of the books that needs to be read. Even though it has become a classic, it is still relevant to our here and now. It can provide knowledge for female activists, especially those who are Muslim.
Female Spirit
Through this book he worked intellectually to do a critical analysis of the conventional views. Nazirah, in her time, was the most prominent as well as controversial woman, who studied feminist interpretation scientifically and with the perspective and spirit of Muslim women.
The interesting thing about this book is that Nazhirah held debates and polemics with a number of major Al-Azhar scholars regarding the things she studied. Al-Azhar is the oldest Islamic University, founded over a millennium, and is seen as the most authoritative source of Islamic knowledge.
Nazhirah's criticism in this book is quite sharp, touching, and can even act as a deconstruction of the conservative religious views that the ulama represented at that time at the world's leading Islamic university. He came up with bold thoughts and created conflict with the ulama through the same religious arguments, but with different interpretations.
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