Blessed female companions’ sacred passion for obedience

Dear Islamic brothers! A Muslim should obey every command of the Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم and should keep his obedience in mind in every deed. As all the blessed companions رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُم of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم attained the great status of devotion to the Beloved Mustafa صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, therefore every act of theirs was according to the Sunnah of Beloved Mustafa صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم and they had acted upon the sayings of the Holy Prophet    صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.

It has been narrated that once the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم came out from the Masjid, he صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم saw that on the way men and women were walking together. Talking to the women he صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: ‘اِسۡتَأۡخِرۡنَ فَاِنَّهُ لَيۡسَ لَكُنَّ اَنۡ تَحۡقُقۡنَ الطَّرِيقَ’, i.e. Stay back! You cannot pass through the middle of the path, ‘عَلَيۡكُنَّ بِحَافَّاتِ الطَّرِيقِ’, but rather walk from the side. Thereafter, women would walk so close to the corner of the street that their clothes would get entangled against the walls.

(Sunan Abi Dawood, vol. 4, pp. 470, Hadees 5272)

Dear Islamic brothers! The abovementioned parable contains a great lesson for us. The Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم only once said to these blessed female companions: ‘Stay back! You cannot pass in the middle of the path’ so they obeyed in such a way that they started walking so close to the walls that their clothes got entangled.

Expressing his sorrow over the immodesty of these days, Shaykh-e-Tareeqat, Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat, ‘Allamah, Maulana Abu Bilal Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri Razavi دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه has said: Nowadays, most Muslim women have adopted the impure attitude of walking shoulder to shoulder with men and consequently have thrown the shawl of shame off their bodies and are ruining their lives in the Hereafter by wearing attractive and revealing, masculine clothing, wandering about in wedding halls, hotels, amusement centres and cinemas with masculine hair-styles. The great Mufassir, Khalifah of A’la Hadrat, Sadr-ul-Afadil ‘Allamah Maulana Sayyid Muhammad Na’eemuddin Muradabadi عَـلَيْهِ رَحۡمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـهَادِی has said: Even at home, women should tread