Aisha's Role In Islam

Aisha: Aisha is the wife of the Prophet Muhammed. She can be seen as symbol of empowerment because her life served as a guide for Muslims on how to raise pious children and how to have a good marriage. Aisha also had freedoms that most Muslim women did not have, like the ability debate with men and go to the mosque. Aisha can also be seen as a sign of oppression because even though she had many freedom, she was still subjugated to life in a harem and sharing the Prophet with other wives (Power, 143).
2. Freedom from the Hijab: A news article by Nusrat that explains her decision to wear the hijab. This act is seen as empowering because wearing the hijab gives Nusrat the freedom to regard her body as her own concern as well as secure personal …show more content…
“The word harem… was the opposite of halah, the permissible” “A harem was about private space and the rules regulating it…it did not need walls. Once you knew what was forbidden, you carried the harem within. You had it in your head, inscribed under your forehead and under your skin”. An invisible harem was essentially a law that were constantly with you because you carried it in your mind (61-62) .The cosmic frontier is a way to combat the harem and hudud that people face, “you dream of escape. And magic flourishes when you spell out that dream and make the frontiers vanish. Dreams can change your life, and eventually the world. Liberation starts with images dancing in your little head, and you can translate those images in words. And words cost nothing!”(114). Aunt Habiba believe that through magic in dreams you can free yourself from any frontier by liberating your mind. Mernissi explains that the reason harem and hudud exists is because the world created harem for women. When creating these boundaries the world was not thinking about being just. This created an inequality between men and women from this inequality and more and more hududs and harems began to be created