Treating women as awra: Difference between revisions
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=== Prohibition against Assuming the Marja‘iyya and Judgeship === | === Prohibition against Assuming the Marja‘iyya and Judgeship === | ||
Another | Another result of treating women as awra is that it prohibits them from holding social and religious positions that necessitate their participation in society. It has been argued that how can a person take on duty of issuing fatwas, the marja‘iyya, and judgeship while being labeled as “awra” and instructed to be hidden. These activities inevitably require meeting people and addressing issues have been arised, and such a position is incompatible with the entire concealment obligation for women.<ref>Safi Golpayegani, Dhakhirat al-‘Uqba, vol. 1, pp. 123-124.</ref> | ||
=== Prohibition of Singing === | === Prohibition of Singing === | ||
Some jurists | Some jurists broadened the definition of awra to include the voice too. According to them, being awra entails the “obligation of concealment,” and the manner of this concealment differs depending on its object: just as the body needs to be concealed from Non-Mahram's eyes, the voice must also be concealed from Non-Mahram's ears. Therefore, regardless of the prohibition of [[ghina]], the very act of [[Women’s Singing|letting men hear the sound]] (isma‘ al-sawt) will be prohibited because a woman is awra.<ref>Eshtahardi, Madarik al-Urwa, vol. 15, p. 128.</ref> | ||
== Predominant View of Jurists: Woman as Awra == | == Predominant View of Jurists: Woman as Awra == | ||