Treating women as awra

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=== Confinement to Home and Avoidance of Social Presence ===

On the basis of the instruction “وَ اسْتُرُوا عَوْرَاتِهِنَّ بِالْبُیوتِ” (“conceal their awra in houses”), jurists have regarded women’s social presence as undesirable. They argue that a woman is awra and the exposure of awra is a shameful thing, therefore appearance of women likewise causes shame. Some have clearly indicated that women should stay at home as much as they can and that interactions with them, even simple greetings, should be minimized to prevent revealing their lack of knowledge and inability to converse.<ref>Majlisi, Rawdat al-Muttaqin fi Sharh Man la Yahduruhu al-Faqih, vol. 8, p. 106.</ref> On this basis, many jurists, including [[Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Tabatabaei Yazdi]], have issued fatwas regarding the “recommendation of confining women to the home.”<ref>Yazdi, al-Urwa al-Wuthqa, vol. 5, p. 490.</ref> Other jurists, in their comments on this fatwa, have similarly recognized the narrations depicting women as awra as a key argument in support of it.ref>Sabzevari, Muhadhdhab al-Ahkam, vol. 24, p. 26; Abu al-Qasim Khoei and Javad Tabrizi, Sirat al-Najat fi Ajwibat al-Istifta’at, vol. 8, p. 221.</ref>

On the basis of the instruction “وَ اسْتُرُوا عَوْرَاتِهِنَّ بِالْبُیوتِ” (“conceal their awra in houses”), jurists have regarded women’s social presence as undesirable. They argue that a woman is awra and the exposure of awra is a shameful thing, therefore appearance of women likewise causes shame. Some have clearly indicated that women should stay at home as much as they can and that interactions with them, even simple greetings, should be minimized to prevent revealing their lack of knowledge and inability to converse.<ref>Majlisi, Rawdat al-Muttaqin fi Sharh Man la Yahduruhu al-Faqih, vol. 8, p. 106.</ref> On this basis, many jurists, including [[Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Tabatabaei Yazdi]], have issued fatwas regarding the “recommendation of confining women to the home.”<ref>Yazdi, al-Urwa al-Wuthqa, vol. 5, p. 490.</ref> Other jurists, in their comments on this fatwa, have similarly recognized the narrations depicting women as awra as a key argument in support of it.<ref>Sabzevari, Muhadhdhab al-Ahkam, vol. 24, p. 26; Abu al-Qasim Khoei and Javad Tabrizi, Sirat al-Najat fi Ajwibat al-Istifta’at, vol. 8, p. 221.</ref>

=== Prohibition against Assuming the Marja‘iyya and Judgeship ===

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 === Confinement to Home and Avoidance of Social Presence ===
-On the basis of the instruction “وَ اسْتُرُوا عَوْرَاتِهِنَّ بِالْبُیوتِ” (“conceal their awra in houses”), jurists have regarded women’s social presence as undesirable. They argue that a woman is awra and the exposure of awra is a shameful thing, therefore appearance of women likewise causes shame. Some have clearly indicated that women should stay at home as much as they can and that interactions with them, even simple greetings, should be minimized to prevent revealing their lack of knowledge and inability to converse.<ref>Majlisi, Rawdat al-Muttaqin fi Sharh Man la Yahduruhu al-Faqih, vol. 8, p. 106.</ref> On this basis, many jurists, including [[Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Tabatabaei Yazdi]], have issued fatwas regarding the “recommendation of confining women to the home.”<ref>Yazdi, al-Urwa al-Wuthqa, vol. 5, p. 490.</ref> Other jurists, in their comments on this fatwa, have similarly recognized the narrations depicting women as awra as a key argument in support of it.ref>Sabzevari, Muhadhdhab al-Ahkam, vol. 24, p. 26; Abu al-Qasim Khoei and Javad Tabrizi, Sirat al-Najat fi Ajwibat al-Istifta’at, vol. 8, p. 221.</ref>
+On the basis of the instruction “وَ اسْتُرُوا عَوْرَاتِهِنَّ بِالْبُیوتِ” (“conceal their awra in houses”), jurists have regarded women’s social presence as undesirable. They argue that a woman is awra and the exposure of awra is a shameful thing, therefore appearance of women likewise causes shame. Some have clearly indicated that women should stay at home as much as they can and that interactions with them, even simple greetings, should be minimized to prevent revealing their lack of knowledge and inability to converse.<ref>Majlisi, Rawdat al-Muttaqin fi Sharh Man la Yahduruhu al-Faqih, vol. 8, p. 106.</ref> On this basis, many jurists, including [[Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Tabatabaei Yazdi]], have issued fatwas regarding the “recommendation of confining women to the home.”<ref>Yazdi, al-Urwa al-Wuthqa, vol. 5, p. 490.</ref> Other jurists, in their comments on this fatwa, have similarly recognized the narrations depicting women as awra as a key argument in support of it.<ref>Sabzevari, Muhadhdhab al-Ahkam, vol. 24, p. 26; Abu al-Qasim Khoei and Javad Tabrizi, Sirat al-Najat fi Ajwibat al-Istifta’at, vol. 8, p. 221.</ref>
 === Prohibition against Assuming the Marja‘iyya and Judgeship ===

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