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Some miracles were also experinced by her, as she got food, refuge and strength during those difficult times.Īfter her release from prison, al-Ghazali resumed teaching and writing for the revival of Muslim Brotherhood's magazine, Al-Dawah. Al-Ghazzali during these periods of hardship she is reported to have had visions of Prophet Muhammed (SAW). Al-Ghazali recounts her being thrown into a cell locked up with dogs to confess assasination attempt on President Nassir. Imprisoned for her activities in 1965, she was sentenced to twenty-five year of hard labor but was released under Anwar Sadat's Presidency in 1971.ĭuring the imprisonment, Zainab Al-Ghazali and members of the Muslim Brotherhood underwent inhumane tortures. Life in PrisonĪfter the assassination of Hasan al-Banna in 1949, Al-Ghazali was instrumental in regrouping the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1960s. al Ghazali's family were angered at this perceived disloyalty, but al Ghazali herself remained loyal to him, writing in her memoir that she asked for his photograph to be reinstated in their home when told that it had been removed. Her second husband died while she was in prison, having divorced her after government threats to confiscate his property. In justifying her own exceptionality to her stated belief in a woman's rightful role, al Ghazali described her own childlessness as a "blessing" that would not usually be seen as such, because it freed her to participate in public life.(Hoffman 1988). In the event of any clash between the marriage contract's interest and that of Da'wah, our marriage will end, but Da'wah will always remain rooted in me." (al Ghazali 2006)
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A full trust between a man and a woman, a woman who, at he age of 18, gave her full life to Allah and Da'wah. Moreover, you should not ask me about my activities with other Mujahideen, and let trust be full between us. I cannot ask you today to share with me this struggle, but it is my right on you not to stop me from jihad in the way of Allah. Her memoir describes how she told her husband that her oath of loyalty to Hassan al Banna meant that her devotion to the Islamist cause would always come before her marriage, and if ever the two should conflict, the marriage would end: "If that day comes a clash is apparent between your personal interests and economic activities on the one hand, and my Islamic work on the other, and that I find my married life is standing in the way of Da'wah and the establishment of an Islamic state, then, each of us should go our own way. (Ahmed 1992: 199) Although she wrote that it was a "crime" for a woman to seek a divorce, she made no secret of the fact that she had divorced her first husband because of his discomfort at her public career. The association also took a political stance, demanding that Egypt be ruled by the Qur'an.Īl Ghazali's own life stands in contradiction to some of her professed beliefs.
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Besides offering lessons for women, the association published a magazine, maintained an orphanage, offered assistance to poor families, and mediated family disputes. Her weekly lectures to women at the Ibn Tulun Mosque drew a crowd of three thousand, which grew to five thousand during holy months of the year. Muslim Women's Association ( Jamaa'at al-Sayyidaat al-Muslimaat) (Mahmood 2005: 68) The fact that her organisation was not formally affiliated with the Ikhwan was to prove useful after the Ikhwan was banned, as for a time al Ghazali was able to continue to distribute their literature and host their meetings in her home. However, she did eventually take an oath of personal loyalty to al Banna. Hasan Al-Banna, the founder of the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood), invited al-Ghazali to merge her organisation with his, an invitation she refused as she wished to retain automony. For a short time during her teens, she joined the Egyptian Feminist Union only to conclude that "Islam gave women rights in the family granted by no other society.At the age of eighteen, she founded the Jamaa'at al-Sayyidaat al-Muslimaat (Muslim Women's Association), which she claimed had a membership of three million throughout the country by the time it was dissolved by government order in 1964. He encouraged her to become an Islamic leader citing the example of Nusaybah bint Ka'ab al-Maziniyah, a woman fought alongside Muhammad in the Battle of Uhud. Her father was an Al-Azhar-educated independent religious teacher and cotton merchant.
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