Islamic Feminism Manifesto: Islam as Shelter for All Women
We often hear: “If Islam is enough, we don’t need feminism.” And we ask: then why are so many women still left behind; abused, unheard, erased in Islam’s name?
If Islam is truly rahmatan lil-‘alamin—a mercy to all worlds—then its justice cannot be confined to the righteous, the religious, the modest, the married, or the Muslim. It must be a source of liberation for all women; the single mother, the sex worker, the queer woman, the survivor, the non-Muslim, the neurodivergent girl who flinches at loud imams.
We are not here to compete over whether Islam or feminism has the better branding.
We are here to say:
if the roots are in tawheed, if the trunk is justice, if the shade reaches all who are oppressed—then let it be called Islam, and may it look like feminism, taste like liberation, and walk like truth.
The point is not the name. The point is the mercy. The point is the freedom of every woman—regardless of belief, past, body, or banner.
We do not ask Islam to conform to feminism. We ask Muslims to embody the Islam that liberates.
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