They Speak of Zaynab but Silence the Women: Reclaiming Her True Voice

 

🕊️ How the Spirit of Zaynab (AS) Challenges Us to Break the Chains of Silence and Reclaim Her Voice

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They raise Zaynab’s name on flags and minbars —
yet silence the very spirit she embodied.

They allow her to be spoken about,
but not spoken through.

She is permitted only as a symbol —
not as a precedent, not as a blueprint, not as a living truth.

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📜 But History Remembers Otherwise

Zaynab (AS) was not hidden.
She stood before the tyrants of her time —
not just as a mourner, but as a witness, a scholar, a leader.

When Yazid sat on his throne of blood,
she did not ask permission.
She did not defer.
She shattered the silence.

“I see nothing but beauty,”
— she declared, not from behind a veil of compliance,
but in the very court of oppression.

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🎭 The Hypocrisy Today

Now, centuries later, the Ummah claims her name,
but tells the women:

• You may speak — only if you follow our tone.

• You may teach — only if you teach what is already approved.

• You may serve — but not lead.

• You may carry pain — but not power.

So what is this, if not betrayal?

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🔥 A Call to Reclaim Her Voice

The Living Imam (ATFS) will not appear until the woman is free —
free not just in body, but in spirit, thought, authenticity.

Until women are heard as they are,
not just as they are permitted to be,
the Ummah is unprepared.

We slap our thighs and cry for the Imam —
but is your home ready to receive him, if your daughters cannot even speak his truth?

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🛡️ The Challenge to the Community and Clergy

• Who preserved the words of Fatima (AS)? Women.

• Who echoed Zaynab’s sermons in Kufa and Damascus? The oppressed.

• And who is silenced now, for doing the same?
  Often, again, the women.

Are we the heirs of Zaynab’s fire —
or the inheritors of those who tried to extinguish her?

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📜 Lawkeepers Without Spirit?

The clergy may be the law-keepers.
But do they always carry the spirit?
Do they hold the flame of the Qur’an in their chest —
or do they carry it like a book on their back, heavy but unread?

Do they uphold divine justice,
or do they quote it while protecting their seat?

They recite rulings, but have they tasted the Revelation?
They protect the external form, but do they live the inner climb?

We do not question the role of sacred knowledge —
but we must ask:
Does every robe carry light?

Or are some stitched only with fear, power, and silence? 

🔥 And when we read the hadith that there will be monkeys on the pulpits —
why do we point the finger at other sects, other centers, other communities, other countries?
Is it easier to spot corruption at a distance than to confess what festers within?
It may just be us holding the banana.

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✨ This is Not Just About Gender

This is about truth.
This is about the soul of Islam.
This is about a community prepared to carry the weight of Wilaya,
or a community still shackled to its own fear.

Unity without truth is complicity.
Silence in the face of injustice is betrayal.
The Imam will not walk into chains.

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🕊️ A Note from the Author

I speak now because silence became betrayal.
But let it be clear:
I no longer teach — because the community no longer knows how to learn.

I do not speak from a pulpit, nor from a seat of authority.
I speak from the ache of witnessing truth disfigured.
I speak from the fire of knowing what we were meant to be —
and seeing what we have become.

This is not a lesson.
It is a lament.
A refusal.
A reckoning.

If you are waiting for comfort,
you will not find it here.
Only the mirror —
and the question of whether you dare to look into it.