In an earlier article, I had written about how technocratic societies adopt a form of gender segregation in which the opposite genders never pair up with one another due to self-fulfilment through consumerist desires, leading to widespread loneliness, depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, etc. It seemed quite ironic that societies which champion gender mixing inevitably lead to such extreme forms of gender isolation. Well, in this article, we will be looking at how such societies are also ultimately against women’s empowerment and education, as well as how, once again, Islam solves this problem.
But how can a liberal feminist technocratic society, whose core tenets include women’s empowerment and education, actually be against it? Well, to understand this, we have to look at the example of the washing machine, a device that was invented in order to assist women with their household chores. Washing machines, dishwashers, and similar appliances that allow women to finish their work much faster than they were able to in the past have introduced a level of comfort and convenience into their lives that grants them the “freedom to explore life outside the household”:
The advent of modern appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators had a profound impact on 20th Century society, according to a new Université de Montréal study. Plug-in conveniences transformed women’s lives and enabled them to enter the workforce, says Professor Emanuela Cardia, from the Department of Economics.
Professor Cardia based her research on more than 3,000 censuses conducted between 1940 and 1950, from thousands of American households, across urban and rural areas.
“We calculated that women who loaded their stove with coal saved 30 minutes everyday with an electric stove,” says Cardia.
“The result is that women flooded the workforce. In 1900, five percent of married women had jobs. In 1980, that number jumped to 51 percent.”
Such comfort-inducing technologies only increased over time and, along the way, more and more women were “liberated” from the household, instead being dumped into the education system and workforce where they were transformed from mothers and wives into mere replaceable cogs for the modern machine and fooled into thinking that this transition was a good thing.
And this transition meant big bucks for corporate businesses, especially those in the technological sales sector. Women used to be the main supportive framework of the household, performing important tasks such as raising children and serving their husbands. This system, where the women knew their role and the men knew theirs, allowed the family unit to run smoothly, like clockwork, without the need to depend on the corporate elite in this invasive way. This, of course, did not sit well with wealthy tycoons, who would much rather have a society where its members are wholly dependent on their products. Enter the lie of feminism:
You are not meant for the household. You deserve to be empowered and educated leaders. You deserve independence and freedom. And our products give you exactly that!
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With this deceitful sales tactic, millions of families were hooked onto technology, being swiftly transformed into consumerist addicts who couldn’t survive without depending on these monolithic companies. Business boomed for these top one-percenters, and the lie of feminism became ingrained as one of the main sales strategies within the corporate ecosystem.
The more that technology replaces women within the household and the more they are in turn forced out of the home, the more they become stripped of the vital responsibilities that society has placed upon them, i.e., of motherhood, wifehood, increasing the population, raising and nurturing the next generation, etc. Instead, they become secretaries in soulless corporations. Thus, women’s empowerment ultimately renders women useless.
“But Crypto, what about the female doctors?! Don’t you know how important they are to society and the immense responsibility they have, without which society itself would collapse completely? Don’t you know that a society can be perfect in every way possible, but if it doesn’t have women doctors, it’s basically useless?”
Ok. Suppose I agree for the sake of argument that without women doctors the Earth would be swallowed up by a black hole. However, even then, just look at where technological progression is headed, and you will realize that even this “immense responsibility” will be snatched away from women.
Look at how fast AI is developing, leaving people speechless every time it makes a leap, whether that is in the realm of video/content-generation or integration with robotics. Quantum technology seems to be around the corner, and if AI continues improving at this rate, it’s only a matter of time before all human tasks are replaced by AI, no matter how skilled they are, be it pilots, engineers, programmers, scientists, researchers, and yes, doctors.
Clone Robotics continues to make progress in the development of a robotic hand. musculoskeletal robotic hand musculoskeletal hand that can mimic human movements with astonishing accuracy. This hand, designed with advanced biomimetic technology, is capable of replicating both complex gestures and fine movements, marking a significant advance in human-machine interaction.
Of course, the replacement of humans by AI won’t occur overnight. There will be phases in between, as humans are gradually side-lined in droves. For instance, many medical students already use software such as Chat GPT to help them figure out diagnoses and treatments. So, it isn’t too far-fetched to think that the first instance of AI replacing doctors will be the role of human doctors to simply collect information and conduct various tests on the patient and input all that data into an AI doctor, which will then determine the diagnosis and prescribe the exact treatment.
Bear in mind, this is what the early stages of human doctors being replaced by AI might look like. How long until ALL doctors, physicians, and surgeons, including the female ones, are replaced by technology? Society will no longer have any need for female doctors then—or any human doctors for that matter. And, as such, there will be no need for women’s education either. The current education system largely exists to produce wage slaves with skills that allow them to run the post-industrialization modern machine. When advanced technologies replace those roles, this education system will become useless.
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Thus, feminist technocratic societies will ultimately kill the need for women’s education as well.
And technologies like artificial wombs will remove the timeless female responsibility of bearing children, thus stripping—or as feminists would put it, liberating—women from the very biological notion of womanhood. Artificial wombs will be advertised as the ultimate convenience for women:
No need to go through the hassles of pregnancy or feel the pain of childbirth. Now you can just focus on serving your boss coffee at work and, in just nine short months, we will deliver your customized designer baby right to your doorstep! You won’t even need a husband or male partner. For a premium subscription, your eggs will be fertilized by the sperm of any famous celebrity of your choice! Order this month and be in with a chance to win a baby who will grow up to look just like Brad Pitt!
Believe it or not, the washing machine to artificial womb pipeline is very real.
Islam, as usual, is the solution to this technocratic problem. It empowers women with responsibility that has a significant real meaningful and positive impact on society as a whole. It commands them to observe haya’, i.e., modesty, guarding themselves from fitnah (trial, tribulation, temptation) and preventing fitnah from spreading in society, thus keeping it and themselves pure. It commands them to obey their husbands and fathers; and to raise their children upon haqq (truth) so they can grow up to be righteous agents of Allah. Compare the false feminist formula of success for women that has been described above, with the true and simple Islamic one that is encapsulated in the following hadith (prophetic narration):
It has been narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: “If a woman prays her five [daily prayers], fasts her month (i.e., Ramadan), safeguards her private parts, and obeys her husband, it will be said to her, ‘Enter Jannah (Paradise) from whichever of the gates of Jannah you choose.’” (Sahih Ibn Hibban, 4163)
Islam doesn’t tell women to leave the house and go to schools and universities. Islam doesn’t tell women to acquire a Master’s degree; nor does it tell them to be an independent boss-woman. None of these things—that unfortunately liberal Muslims have adopted and push their daughters into thinking is the real path to success—are things that Islam has obligated or recommends. On the contrary, pushing women into the education sector and workforce has an extremely high chance of turning them into toxic immodest feminists who will disobey their husbands, well, if they even have one in the first place that is, and it will set them on the path to failure both in this life and the next.
The path of feminism is the path to relinquishing your Divinely Ordained responsibility and ultimately becoming completely useless to society. Muslim parents can combat this by refusing to fall for the lies being sold by the shayatin (devils) of this world, while also ensuring that their daughters follow the true Islamic formula for success. This means that anyone who sells and promotes the feminist lie of success cannot be trusted, including the “Compassionate Imams” and feminist “Shaykhaz” who are more often than not wolves in sheep’s clothing funded by Western governments.
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You have spoken Al Haqq. The less technology we have, the absolutely better we are. Let us all work towards being less technology reliant right now, be it even for seemingly ‘good intentions’. The best good intention for Allah’s ridwan is doing deeds naturally, in accordance with the fitra. SubhanAllah, as strange as it may sound to some, think of the joy of riding a horse, swimming, and all amazing sunnat deeds.
You wouldn’t glaze middle age eras until you get a disease that requires modern medicine.
You may have misunderstood him because of his craving for a life with less interaction of existing tech.Islam was never against tech or science and never will be but your comment gives off a vibe as if you’re undermining middle ages and the people of its time like the ‘modern people’ in the West do.We cannot forcefully get rid of technology nor can we suddenly become like cyberpunk’s techie-state which is also a far-fetched fantasy too.Allah knows best which timeline suits us best.
Tbh, I’d like to disagree. Completely demonising technology would not be correct thing to do as it has brought benifit to the Deen as well. The main problem is with the mindset of the user.
Agreed
It’s so over it’s been over since the late 1970s, if you are a young single guy there is quite literally no hope for you statistically speaking. All we have left is to wait for death