Hijra Puns

This has been something on mind for a while now. Because growing up, that lailat el qader is the day the Quran was released, and this is a sacred day, and on that night if you pray and stuff you’ll get a lot of hasanat.

We can all agree that a year has 365 days (not including leap years) and that’s why we have the same seasons at the same time every, we won’t have summer In December and we won’t have winter in June.

Here’s the thing… the Islamic calendar (hijra) has 355 days, so every year the day that the Quran was revealed would be earlier than what it was last year by 5 days? The days for all these Islamic events doesn’t add up if you think about it, Ramadan will be at different times of the year, eid will experience all seasons, summer winter and spring. So people don’t really know the exact date that the Quran was revealed.

To sum up, all of the events that happened and are considered to be the best time for stuff, isn’t accurate it will always change , so they aren’t really events.

Hi everyone. Although a Gulf expat, I was just wondering about the EU expats out here that are (were?) Lebanese citizens and immigrated recently (i.e. last two to three years let's say?) to places like France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Scandinavian countries ..etc?

I've worked all over the Gulf. And I'm sick of the uncertainty out here. I get it, EU isn't a cake-walk, and by no means do I think it's easy out there. The purpose of my post is to get an idea of how difficult was it for you to land a job (assuming you've completed studies whether in Leb or abroad) in the EU, and if you've pursued a plan for citizenship in the long run?

I've been doing interviews with a few of the above countries mentioned, but haven't had any success. Yet? Still, I don't know why it never occurred to me. The fact that I landed interviews for three different roles in the EU came as a surprise to me, and yeah not gonna lie, but my imagination has been obsessing over it. That's why I started this post. :-)

I got rejected in the end, seems like I'm missing that extra I dunno...qualification or experience to convince them that "Ah, that's our guy!". Inchallah I'll keep trying, and already racking up on certifications to stand out a little more. Hope to hear some success stories from fellow Lebs.

Peace.

(Well, just to be clear, i dont think being trans is a bad thing, or a insult)

Now, today my FRIEND called me a 'hijra' cause, im not "manly enough" and other friends thought that was funny, i was so in rage... Embarassed... Sad... Felt alone tbh... I cried when i got home, and looked in the mirror and cried some more thinking why im 'femme'... Why...

The thing is, i love my femme self but sometimes, people whom i love call me names... And its so disturbing Idk whom to share this with, i hope reddit helps me :(

And the thing is, I've got more girls than him hehe, jokes on his "manlyness"

Hi fellow redditors! I wanted to share an element of my South Asian LGBT culture here. In India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, there exists a huge hijra community. Though to outsiders, it may seem as misgendering and only transwoman specific, but it is more of a cultural and gender identity. In hindu traditions, hijra individuals are considered to be holy and their blessings are sought for marriages and childbirths. This year, a hijra woman was awarded a Padma award, one of india's highest civilian honour. During her acceptance of the prize, Jogathi Manjamma (her name) performed the traditional hijra blessing on the President. This video went viral and was largely warmly welcomed. The hijra community has been mentioned in the Hindu epics like Ramayana and there are festivals celebrating them.

Sadly, like all other LGBT communities worldwide, they too have faced discrimination and social persecution. The hijra individuals often resort to prostitution for survival. But things are looking better, as our countries have ministries exclusively for the welfare of the hijra community. Although I am gay, and not hijra, but I wanted to share this piece of South Asian culture here.

Have a happy day!

Changing one’s gender and behaving as the opposite gender are now understood as not only acceptable, but something to embrace and celebrate. Those who embrace this idea make a direct line between it and celebrating all of the many cultures and ethnic groups that exist in the world. In other words, to them, to not accept a transgender woman as a woman is akin to racism even if doing so goes against biological fact.

What once was called “gender identity disorder” is now “gender dysphoria” and “gender incongruence.” The World Health Organization no longer even considers this as a mental health disorder. Instead, they now categorize it as a “condition related to sexual health.”

Rather than it being considered a psychological condition that should be addressed with the objective to help the afflicted accept his or her actual gender, the goal now is to help that person accept his or her chosen gender through “gender-affirmative health care.”

We tend to understand the acceptance of a transgender lifestyle (not just having confused thoughts about one’s gender) as being a product of Western, secular ideas. This of course is a valid, reasonable understanding.

We can however, find something of an acceptance of this lifestyle in one ancient religion —Hinduism.

Hinduism understands there to be three genders, the third being neither man nor woman. These descriptions are present in some of the oldest Hindu texts. Hijras, i.e., men who dress and behave as women, are also present in ancient Hindu texts.

The concept of a third gender is treated as a condition that begins at conception. To get a sense of this, let’s look at one of the first known examples of this being addressed in Hinduism, in the Sushuruta Samhita, an ancient Hindu medical text:

“A child of no-sex…is the product when ovum and sperm are equal (in their quality and quantity)”[1]

“A …[pregnant woman] whose sides become raised and the forepart of whose abdomen is found to bulge out will give birth to a sex-less…child”[2]

There are also versions of the ancient Hindu epics, [the Ramayana and the Mahabhrata](https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2018/dec/12/hindu-s

There is poor family and they had baby girl. The hijras came, caused a lot of harassment and took 2000 rupees. They asked for 5000 initially. The family is really poor but the hijra gang was persistent until the money was given. How to handle these goons?

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Four year ago while on a UK speaking tour with @alburujpress I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Sheikh Muhammed Akram who has researched Islam's female Hadith scholars. He set out to write a short book about what he thought would be a handful of female scholars, and now has completed 55 volumes about more than 10,000 of them. He continues his research but had to cap the number for the volumes purely for practical reasons. He says there are thousands more.

I asked him when Muslim female scholarship began to decline and his answer was fascinating. He said 10 centuries after Hijra with the rising influence of the "philosophers" on Islamic scholarship. Their heavy reliance on ancient Greek sources and methodologies included being influenced by anti-women Western ideas.

It was amazing to learn how many of the scholars we consider the pillars of our tradition had female teachers (not just students). It was also worth noting that he set out to study just scholars of Hadith. Many of these women also were scholars of fiqh, Tafseer and other sciences along with Hadith. But I wondered what the number would be had he set out to study Islam's women scholars in general.

And as many have pointed out he did confirm that not a single one of the female Hadith scholars were found to be fabricators, while hundreds of male fabricators have been identified.

It is worth noting something else for anyone arguing Islam holds a woman's word with less weight than a man's: female muhadithat (Hadith narrators) are equal to their male counterparts in the weight of their testimony. You don't need two women to narrate a Hadith for example to weigh it against the word of one man. And these teachings impact how Muslims understand and practice their faith for the rest of time.

May Muslim female scholarship again be the norm not the anomaly.

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Western Astrology can be very into a gender binary. Capricorn men vs Capricorn women. Look to your Mars sign if you are a man to see your ideal wife. Look to your Venus sign if you are a woman to see your ideal husband. Stuff like that.

The ancient scriptures of Hinduism acknowledges and accepts Hijras. A category they see as neither male not female but somewhere in between. Does Vedic Astrology take that into consideration when examining the birth chart of a hijra?

I've been slapped by one on the train, one grabbed my dick and balls in the public bus in Delhi. Another one tried to remove my shirt thumping on my chest touching me. I used to travel in bus as I was a college student at that time. The next time I was on the bus and they entered and quickly I exited from the back door, booked a cab paying almost 5x the price lol.

I think it's normal for some people and there's nothing to worry about but I still remember it sometimes even after 4-5 years of that incident. Since then never visited Delhi or want to visit again in my entire life.

So how many of you have faced this situation? I'm from other state btw.

whats you guys thoughts on hijra or moving abroad to a better muslim country? I know some brothers that really want to move to a better place and raise their family there, but they find that alot of sisters just aren't willing for such a change. is the subject of hijra or where you raise you're children an important part of you're marriage disscussion ?

Salaams, peace + blessings to all on this Jummah,

I have come among this great community to spread awareness about the ongoing genocide happening in Tigray (Land of the First Hijra).

The First Hijra happened in the year 614/615 AD. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) sent his daughter, cousins and a group of early companions to the Axumite kingdom (modern day Tigray) to a Christian King in order to seek refuge from persecution in Mecca. The King, known as King Nejashi, accepted and protected them. Freedom of religion and expression was granted to the early Muslims in the Axumite Kingdom.

The Axumite Kingdom was given a special status, Dar al-Hiyad (Land of Protection), in a unique categorization from the usual Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb as an honor.

Since November 2020, the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments in coordination have unleashed a genocide onto the people of Tigray. Weaponized rape, man-made starvation and extrajudicial killings of civilians are only a few of many war crimes being commit by these two despotic regimes.

Among these crimes against humanity, there has been the targeted destruction and looting of the Al-Nejashi masjid. Given the historical and religious significance of King Nejashi, I was hoping we could use this sacred month to shed awareness and amplify what is happening on the ground in Tigray.

Please have a look at the post and make dua InshAllah.

https://news.yahoo.com/no-more-sacred-places-heritage-054549797.html

https://preview.redd.it/fb9wr3969jw61.jpg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe7471565395d6c1749d4eeac70a212d67b74e48

I think it’s safe to say that the West is no place for Muslim men in particular; it’s already anti-Muslim, but in addition to that it’s also anti-male. The general cultural trend is one of bashing men, belittling men, shaming men, denigrating men; all for what? For being men, except for simps of course for the simp thrives in the cuckolded environment of Western society.

But there is a silver-lining to every dark cloud; for this one it’s the wake-up call for the millions of Muslim men that there is no Islamically sound future in most western countries for them.

Indeed, Allah (swt) guides His servants in ways they cannot comprehend but eventually, if one pauses to look deep enough one will notice the Divine wisdom albeit still not in its full grandeur but enough to understand that everything happens for the best. As the saying goes, ‘when the going gets tough, the tough get going.’

We know this best from the examples of the lives of the Prophets (as).

Subconsciously every Muslim man who’s had any experience living in the West has understood this to be the case; this is why so many have gone abroad to get married as marriage in the West is already difficult as it is for a plethora of reasons; committing zina is far more convenient, even incentivized in comparison.

The only good thing that the West has to offer in this materialistic age is opportunities to earn money, if at that; after that there’s nothing of wholesome value that can be attained from the West. It’s all empty superficiality; a cold, robotic, atomized kind of society saturated with endless escapisms of entertainment and comfort foods with zina and porn which kills your soul.

Even if one gets married in the West; do you really want to have kids and raise them here? I didn’t think so. If your Islam just barely managed to survive despite all these fitan (trials, temptations) surrounding you, there is no guarantee your child(rens) will.

So what every young Muslim man should do is to excel in earning money (in a halal way of course), save the money up, send it abroad to a Muslim country, establish a home there. In the mean time learn as many skills as possible that will enable you to earn money no matter where you relocate to;

• whether its learning the language of the country you intend to move to in order to become a language teacher,

• or become a Quran teacher in which case perfect your tajweed and memorization

• Learn computer related skills like app/web development

Whateve

/uj That's it, that's the whole jerk.

Various articles in the Times of India between 2005 and 2016 have referred to a study by the All-India Hijra Kalyan Sabha (AIHKS) which:

>reveals that only 1 per cent of society's invisibles are born eunuchs, while the rest have joined the community under duress or for money. [as worded in the 2005 ToI article - variously worded elsewhere]

I'm trying to track down the original study by the AIHKS, but I'm not having much luck. I'd really appreciate any help or advice locating it!

I'd also like to welcome any comments about the two linked ToI articles.

I'm a postgraduate conducting research on gender in India.

Im not familiar with the original language - can you translate whats written in the Quran regarding the Hijra precept ?

Due to Zionist's barbaric way of war, even women and children are not safe in the Holy Land. Many advisors of the Caliph have suggested to him that it be best for his wife and children to leave Jordan at once by making Hijra to Britannia.

Before any travel arrangements are made, Caliph Al Hussein III expressed to Queen Elizabeth over secure communications hat he wishes for his wife and children to reside in London safely, and wanted assurance that they will be under her protection at all times. Afterall, the crown prince and heir of the Caliphate was the son of an English women, and so is a dual-citizen of both the Caliphate and the United Kingdom.