A God Who Hates by Sultan Wafa

Author:Sultan, Wafa [Sultan, Wafa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

There are other marriages of Muhammad’s, such as his marriage to Zeinab, that are ruinous to the proper relationship between a man and a woman. Zeinab was the daughter of Muhammad’s paternal aunt and the wife of his adopted son Zeid, hence his daughter-in-law. One day the Prophet went to Zeid and Zeinab’s home. The doorway was covered by a cowhide curtain which the wind lifted, allowing him to see Zeinab unveiled in her room. He was moved with admiration for her. Zeinab invited Muhammad to come in, but he refused and retraced his steps, murmuring: “Praised be He who changes hearts.” When Zeid learned from his wife what had happened, he went to Muhammad and told him: “Perhaps Zeinab pleased you and I should leave her to you.” Muhammad told him: “Keep your wife.” When you think about it, what we have just witnessed is a son who is passing his wife along to his father as if he was asking a friend of his, “Do you like my shoes? Shall I take them off so that you can have them?” Since this “sanctified” marriage took place, women in Islam have been put on and taken off like shoes for centuries.

But, Muhammad was unable to resist his desires and the rock began to tumble down from the mountain peak, verse after verse, enabling him to give free rein to those desires, while the Angel Gabriel began to shuttle back and forth, up and down, until he had resolved Muhammad’s dilemma. In the first of these verses from the Koran, God reprimanded Muhammad for having concealed his feelings: “You sought to hide in your heart what Allah was to reveal: you were afraid of man, although it would have been more right to fear Allah” (33:37). On his first journey Gabriel legislated for Muhammad to fall in love with a married woman, even though that woman was his daughter-in-law. Then the second verse rolled down, which ordered him to marry Zeinab: “And when Zeid satisfied his desire, we gave her to you in marriage” (33:37). Marriage to the wife of an adopted son was not acceptable in pre-Islamic Arab society, and a third verse conveniently descended in order to invalidate Zeid’s adoption and deter those who were beginning to criticize Muhammad’s marriage to his daughter-in-law. “Muhammad is the father of no man among you. He is the apostle of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets” (33:40).

The Muslim male, as portrayed here, is a poor soul who cannot control his instincts and, therefore, has the right to give them free rein in any manner he chooses. When God’s Prophet coveted his adopted son’s wife and God ordered him to satisfy that desire, this behavior, for Muslims, became enshrined in both religious and secular law. Muhammad banned adoption in order to justify his socially unacceptable marriage—by the standards of the time—to the wife of his adopted son. This ban put an end to a social system that at the time helped

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