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Habib Ali responds to the plea of a woman

Habib Ali passionately talks about the compulsion placed on Muslims in ensuring that the treatment of women within the community is done in a just manner. He outlines the Prophetic tradition on how the measure of goodness is tied to the goodness to women.

Watch the full video here: http://bit.ly/OPhHuD

Habib Ali al-Jifri states that if a community does not help a woman who is being abused (or basically anyone who is being abused) everyone in the community is sinning. All of our good deeds amount to nothing. Very powerful speech.