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An important matter that was suddenly warned about

It is understood from the narrations of the hadith that it will be women and their fitnah that will play the most terrifying role in the fitnah of âkhirzaman. Yes, just as it is reported in the history books: in ancient times, a military unit composed of highly skilled warrior women called ‘Amazons’ fought remarkably in battles. In the same way, at present, in the war of dhalâlah of the zandaqa against Islam through the plan of nafs al-ammarah, it is the half-naked women who are the most frightening group deployed under the command of shaytan; with their naked legs, which are terrifying knives, they attack and assault the people of îmân. By working to close the road to marriage and widen the road to houses of debauchery, they enslave many of the people’s nafs and wound their hearts and rûhs with kabâir; they indeed kill some of those hearts.

Those legs with knives will be the logs of Jahannam and burn first as a perfect punishment for displaying them to the desires of the nafs of non-mahram men. And because she lost her trustworthiness and loyalty in this world, she cannot find a suitable husband, whom, by her fitrah, she desires and needs greatly, and even if she finds one, he will only bring trouble to her. It is even understood from the narrations of the hadith that, as a result of this situation, in âkhirzaman, due to lack of interest and respect in marriage, women will be left without a guardian and become so unimportant and valueless that, in some places, one man will look after forty women.

Since the haqiqah is this, and since every beautiful one loves their beauty and wants to preserve it as much as they can and does not want it to be spoilt. And since beauty is a ni’mah, if shukr is offered for a ni’mah, it increases in a ma’nawî manner, while if shukr is not offered, it becomes ugly. Surely, if she has a mind, she will run away with all of her strength from using her beauty and charm to reap sins for both herself and others, making her beauty and charm ugly and poisonous and transforming that ni’mah into a source of torment due to ingratitude. And to make her transient beauty of five or ten years eternal, she will offer shukr for that ni’mah by using it within the limits of Sharî’ah. Otherwise, in her old age, she will be subjected to long periods of contempt and will weep despairingly.

It is definitely established in the hadiths that if her beauty is beautified with the adornment of Qur’anic âdâb within the sphere of Islamic tarbiyyah, that transient beauty will be eternal in a ma’nawî manner, and in Jannah, it will be given to her in a more graceful and shining fashion than the beauty of the houris. If that beautiful woman has even an iota of mind, she will not allow this beautiful, shining and eternal outcome to slip from her hand.

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