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Nayzak — Knowledge is Obligatory
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Assalaamu alaikum [Peace be to you],Many people claim that Muslim women are denied education. this is a misconception. it's not true. and here I'd like to share with you a little about my life...
I had always had female classmates at school. from elementary school to Middle School to High school and University. I had never had any year without any female classmates. usually females are half of the classroom. sometimes even more than males. some of the girls wore the Hijab, some didn't.
I had always been a good student. I was always the first in Class (in some years, I was the first in all the School) Alhamdulillah [praise be to God]. but it was not an easy task. as there was always strong competition between the good students. and there was always a girl or two in my class who study very well. I admit that the competition for the first place was always hard and exciting in the same time.
I still remember two girls who could get the first place. one in the sixth year (primary school). and the other one in the second year of high school.
I always had female teachers. in my first elementary school year I had a good female teacher (not wearing hijab). she was very nice and I was a good friend with her nephew (we were in the same class).
in middle school, high school and University also, I had many female teachers. some of them were hijabis (wearing hijab) and some were not. I remember all my English teachers were females. one of them (who taught me in high school) didn't wear the hijab at start, and one day, the students were surprised as she started wearing it all of a sudden!
The best teacher I had in University was a female teacher (hijabi). she was teaching a subject called "Operations research". she was the most serious one who had never been absent no matter what. one day or another, all other teachers were absent for some reasons. that teacher was the best. she doesn't joke around, but she knows her field perfectly and she teaches very well. I respect her for that...
I remember some of my female classmates in University came from other cities and they lived in the dormitory. I think their parents trust them so much to allow them to travel to seek knowledge.
the people who say that Muslim girls are not allowed to study don't know anything about Muslim girls. I think it all depends on the environment and the family of the girl. everywhere in the world, you may find open-minded families who encourage girls to study and everywhere in the world you find close-minded families who deny girls their right of education. it's not related to the religion. but to the culture.
I hope that, when you hear in the Media about Muslim girls who are denied education by their families, remember my story and remember that not all what you hear from the media is what's happening. if one of you goes to a Muslim country, try to find time and go to a school or university. you don't need to enter. just stand in front of the gate and just watch. You'll see plenty of female students. (I suppose you won't choose an all-boys school
...)I hope that was beneficial.
Salam[Peace]
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This reminds me of Malala. You know, Pakistani girl that the Taliban tried to silence.
Anyway, that I've found this, it is now more clearly that the Taliban and many Islamic governments have been doing it waaaaay wrong.
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Thank you, it's very educational! And also some questions left.
Here in Ukraine, denying girls education isn't seen at all. When USSR established at the beginning of the 20th century it stated secondary education obligate for every citizen. It can be incomplete, but 8 classes are obligate. Almost 100 years passed but it doesn't change, no one can be denied secondary education. Most of people complete it, some people go to the vocational colleges after 8 classes.
And the main difference is, young people here are often made to study in the university though they don't feel ready, they don't know what to choose. But the common stereotype is you must graduate the school then the university then go to work, so parents often enforce their children to enter the university after the school no matter how they fill. It also has nothing to do with religion, it just how it supposed to be in USSR, how our parents used to think.
Does that issue happen in Muslim countries?
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I am not afraid of any religion, just religious fanaticism. And you have that everywhere, in every religion, regardless of the teaching.
Those who say things about Muslim girls should look first into their own back yard and sometimes their own extended families.
About a decade ago an orthodox christian bishop of certain city in my country (which will remain anonymous since the city didn't do anything wrong) claimed in a sermon that 'menstruating females might be allowed to enter church since these days they are less likely to bleed on the sanctified floor'.
Needless to say, EVERYONE but his fellows and himself were left AGHAST at how hateful, stupid, unpolitical and downright GROSS that statement was.
So, I feel your pain. 
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hmm...
you know, I have some thoughts on this hadith. I had read somewhere before that this hadith is classed as a dha'if hadith (sorry, but IDK the exact word. in Malay, we simply refer it as hadis da'if), a hadith that has its authenticity doubted. A hadith is classed as a dha'if hadith when it had been passed on through unreliable persons. It is not completely false, but it is doubtful. Even so, it is one of the most widespread hadith in Islam.
So, is it me who messed up, or is this really a doubted hadith?
Peace be upon you.
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The people always think that the islamics countries are the only whit problems of sexism problems but...
The rest of the world is a paradise full of education for mens and womens???
In my country many poor girls stop of study because his family thinks that his males sons are more strong , smarts and other sexist things and inclusive some boys aren't in school.
So is a cultural problem no a religious one.
The only bad thing is that some extremist of many religions think that the womens not need school and it give to the other not extremist people are sexist or criminals when are some that are well, good people???
By the way I like the draw
( it go to faves!!! )
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I am a devote Roman Catholic Christian, but I just can't deny some of the lessons other religions teach me, especially with Islam. I do think th pursuit of Knowledge and Wisdom should be obligatory, and I agree with alot of Muslim and Islamic high standards. I really think that it's the ignorace of others that cause alot of people to hate and be awkward around religious topics, and I really thank you for posting these Islam standards, it could help people see truth...
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[everywhere in the world you find close-minded families who deny girls their right of education. it's not related to the religion. but to the culture]
This reminds me of an article I've read in National Geographic magazine some time ago ..It was about early merriage . Especially about forcing girls to quit school and get married at a young age .
The article talked about Yemen as well as India . So obviously ..Islam has no relationship with this phenomenon .. It's all about the education and environmental traditions.
In the other hand ,you can find many elite female doctors and unversity teachers all around the Islamic world.
In my collage ,dentistry collage ,there were more girls than guys in my year
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In junior high, I had a Muslim friend. She was the smartest girl in the class, and she wanted to go to Harvard! She studied hard and always made good grades. I moved away, so I never found out if she made it into Harvard...
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gaining knowledge just happens though.
despite weather or not you are in a school or f you ever go to one, it doesn't matter you still learn.
my cousin didn't go to school till he was seven and he was the smartest kindergartener in the class cause he already knew how to talk and read some already cause we were older than him and he learned from hangin' wiff us. 
sure, he doesn't know everything, but he knows more than the other average kids do and they are younger and already went to school. his teacher even said so.
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This is a good representation of an important obiligation of muslims: "work hard and Allah shall reward you dearly" ~Quran al kareem
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In the univesity where I study, more than 60% of students are females
I'm studying very far from my village, that's why I'm forced to live in a dormitory, it's very hard but I do it because it's my duty as a Muslimah and especially for my dear parents who encouraged me a lot and had confidence in me..
I hope that (someday) they'll be proud of me ^^
<< Don't know why I'm bothering you with my life story
Oh btw! your artwork is very successful as usal, Baraka Allahu fik ^^
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"The ink of a scholar's pen is holier than a martyr's blood"
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Um... I thought you wanted to say that Muslim women are also allowed to study. But in your text you differentiate only between hijab and no hijab. How many of the women without a hijab had been muslima?
I can tell you my own experiances: I know some muslima (with and without hijab) who I really appreciate, who are intelligent and well educated. They are self confident and go their ways.
I also know two muslim (hijab wearing) sisters: both went to high school, but only one sister was good enough. She was the only one in her family (so far) who graduated. Her German was better, too.
I only know those kinds of muslims because I am educated, too. And I think this is why you have got the same picture of muslims: you're educated as well. So it's not a good example, in my opinion, to show that there ARE educated muslims. (Sorry, but most of us have seen muslima at universities!)
Actually I've never heard or read about THE muslims who don't allow their daughters to go to school/university. This surely happens somewhere, even here in my country. But I think it has nothing to do with religion but with the people themselves. Same for the poor and illiterate (muslim) regions of which you probably heard in the media.
As for me, I've read a lot about the relation between poverty and tradition and education. I understand that there are poor, illiterate people who think that their young daughters should rather be "selled" to a husband than go to school to learn how to read, that their sons should marry and go working instead of educating themselves. There are people who do so because it's tradition and there are some who have no other choice although they probably want their children to become something "better".
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"I thought you wanted to say that Muslim women are also allowed to study. But in your text you differentiate only between hijab and no hijab."
maybe you didn't understand my whole message, my friend. what I meant from this text is that there exist muslim girls who study and go to school and university. contrary to what many non-muslims claim.
regarding the hijabi and non-hijabi, I wanted to explain that not all muslim women are forced to wear the hijab as there are some who don't and are allowed to study and work. this is the message I wanted to deliver.
"How many of the women without a hijab had been muslima?"
if you are talking about my classmates, then I guess all of them. as I didn't see what makes me believe they are from other religions (except if they are and hid it)...
and yeah, some Muslimas wear the hijab and other don't. that doesn't mean they are not muslimas. this in itself is a proof that Islam doesn't force the hijab on the muslim woman.
"But I think it has nothing to do with religion but with the people themselves. Same for the poor and illiterate (muslim) regions of which you probably heard in the media."
yes, I agree. unfortunately, the media makes it seem as if not allowing girls to study is the norm.
I'd like to add that in some families, they don't want the girl to have more knowledge than the man. if the son didn't go further in his studies, he may stand against the education of his sister. it's sad, selfish and bad. but it exists. not among all muslim families, but among many.
again, the message of this artwork and article of mine, is that there exist muslim girls who are allowed studies. not like what the western media says and many non-muslims believe.
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MashaaLlah !
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Thank you so much! 
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<3 love how you put it in wonderful words.............. and that's soooo true!!!!
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I remember some muslim girls in my class(es) and at other schools :3 but they were denied a lot of subjects >__> for example, gym, swimming, religion and some bits of social studies
but they were really good students XDD an of course very loveable girls
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salam
yup...that's so true...ALL the students in my class through out school were girls...(umm...well...that's because it was an all girls school
anyways...there isn't anywhere in the Quran or the Hadith that says that women should not get education...places in Muslim countries where women are denied of education is usually because of ignorance and culture, not because of religion
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Salam to you, my Brother...
From where I come from, the only times both girls and boys are denied their education is when their family is extremely poor...Even then, the patriarch of the family will try his hardest to give his children a chance in education...
In my University class, there are only 20 students with 17 of us being girls...
Nice picture...
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I agree 100%... well, not only for Muslims, for everyone!
I think it's a bit strange that people relate that issue specifically to Muslims. It makes no sense. Where I'm from, 60 years ago when everyone was very religious (Catholic), many children, mostly girls, would not finish their primary schools. The families were poor, and since women didn't work, the families used money to educate their boys only >.< (not everywhere, but it was generalised).
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wa alikom al slam wa rahmato ALLAHE wa brakatoh
how could be came like you my big bro >_<
you are soooooooooo goooooood
thankyouu very very ............................................................................... much for the hard work
X3
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oh~ you have draw it 
very will done !! an my college most of the high scores were by girls..! and most of the students who went to college were girls!! Imagine they had to lower the acceptance grade for boys in some college to make the number even
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What people forget...is that there are many places in the world that disallow woman from school. It's just the media that likes to elaborate on the Muslim extremists which gives everyone such a bad impression. |8(
Just curious but, in your personal opinion-
The kinds of negative extremists: would you still consider them Muslim? I know if there was a group of who used my religion to justify wrong doing, then I wouldn't even consider them to have the same beliefs as I do.
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No, I wouldn't consider them Muslims. Islam is all about peace, and these "Muslim" extremists are simply crazy. Islam is against everything they do.
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so true 
great drawing I like how you did the pattern on her skirt
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I always thought that the whole *No women in school thing* was more of how a particular branch or sect decided to interpret the Koran, more than the Koran outright going 'NO!'.
*Would dearly love to point out the obvious deficiencies between those who don't let women into schools and those who do.*
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Thank you for this! Thank you! People think muslims don't allow girls to study! I once had a question directed to me as to why parents don't let their daughters study. I was like...what? WHAT?!
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indeed, my parents encourage me and my siblings to learn and become a successful person
i bet every parents did
i myself studying abroad eventhough i'm a girl and yes, they trust me and its my responsibility not to disappoint them
and most of the class i've studied in, majority of them were females
btw, beautiful artwork as always
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I live in peaceful Islamic country n viewing ur artwork in dA really make me open my eyes about other ppl perception about Islam, n not to forget the fate of Islam ppl who live in minority.
Keep spreading da'wah w/ ur great artwork
We will support u no matter what
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"I think their parents trust them so much to allow them to travel to seek knowledge."
is this ok? The travel part I mean...
Nice work wa Alhamdulillah.
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maybe because we are Asian, all children (be it girl or boy) are expected to get good education to make the parent proud
but thank to Allah I manage to further my study for my History degree
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a female teacher is called hijabi?
or a female teacher wearing a hijab is called hijabi teacher?
my wife is a muslim and she has a masters degree in english teaching (TEFL)
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just wanted to add a bit more to your pic
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "The seeking of knowledge is obligatory for every Muslim." - Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 74
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assalaamu alaikum
I think this art has turned really good!
and I think that Muslims are specials like all others
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