A Civilization that Stifles the Cries of Little Girls Under the Feet of Money, Versus a Civilization that Mobilizes an Army in Response to the Cry of a Single Woman

(Translated)

Al-Rayah Newspaper - Issue 588 - 25/02/2026

By: Ustadha Rula Ibrahim

The Epstein file is neither an isolated moral crime, nor an individual deviation in a sound structure, but instead an explicit exposure of the nature of the capitalist system as a fundamentally corrupt system of life. It does not reveal the downfall of individuals, but instead the downfall of a system that was based on separating values ​​from the creed, making capitalist utilitarian benefit the standard, and freedom a cover for unleashing desires, and made man a legislator for himself instead of being a servant of Allah (swt).

When childhood is violated in the heart of what is called the “civilized world,” and then the cases are closed when they come into contact with centers of money and power, and a single individual is offered as a scapegoat to protect the ruling faction, then we are not facing a flaw in implementation, but rather a crisis of ideology and legislation. The capitalist system, which is based on utility and not on right, produces crime when it serves its interests and then protects it when it threatens its continuity.

Western civilization, as a materialistic and utilitarian civilization, does not have a fixed standard of justice, because it has stripped Divine Revelation of its legislative sovereignty and assigned it to the limited human mind, which is subject to whims and interests. Therefore, it cannot protect women, except to the extent that it serves capitalist interests, and it cannot protect children, except as long as they are outside the utilitarian calculations of power and money. What is called “women’s rights” is not a human honor, but a functional employment, and what is called “children’s rights” is not sacred, but a selective rhetorical tool. Thus, women are reduced to a means, children to a case, and justice to a selective procedure that is activated and deactivated, according to the logic of profit and loss.

When scandals erupt, the system is not held accountable. Instead, the narrative is reproduced, and the crisis is managed through the media, so that the capitalist system remains immune from accountability, and corruption is reduced to individual cases, even though the crime here is a natural product of a deviant intellectual structure.

In contrast to this civilizational decline, Islam presents a radically different ideological vision, not only at the level of morals, but also at the level of the system and governance. In the incident of Ammuriya (Amorium) in the year 223 AH, when a single Muslim woman cried out, “O Mu’tasim!” she had no influence or leverage, but she was a human being under a state that made dignity a Shariah ruling that must be protected. The Khaleefah (Caliph) realized that the Sultan (Shariah ruling authority) is a trust, and that he is responsible for his subjects before Allah (swt), not before political or utilitarian considerations. So committees were not formed, and the issue was not managed through the media, but instead the state moved with its power to restore the balance of justice, because Islam does not deal with dignity as a slogan, but as a legitimate political commitment.

This difference is not a historical detail, but a direct result of a difference in reference. At a time when European women were being tried for thinking, Muslim women were learning, teaching, healing, and participating in public life. The University of Al-Qarawiyyin was founded by Fatima Al-Fihri, and from it, and from Andalusia and Sicily, sciences were transferred to Europe. This was not just a transfer of knowledge, but a transfer of a civilizational vision that sees man as a servant of Allah (swt), honored by his humanity, not by his utilitarian value.

The disbelieving West, with all its tools and associations, is striving for a systematic global intellectual attack that seeks to strip Muslim women of their doctrinal reference and redefine them within a utilitarian system that makes their value a measure of their usefulness to the system, not of dignity or Shariah Law. This process has been portrayed as “liberation, empowerment, and feminism,” while in reality it is a forced reintegration into a utilitarian system that makes a person’s value based on their usefulness to the system; and subjects women to the standard of profit and loss, not to the standard of dignity and Sharia rulings.

Today, after Western civilization has exposed itself, we say to the feminists and human rights organizations that export Western thought: your hypocrisy and lies have been exposed! The cries of young girls in the corridors of the West, and the plight of your women victims in the Epstein scandals, have not moved you in the slightest, because you are part of a system that protects crime, money, and power, and you sell rights to the highest bidder. However, it is the chaste and honorable Muslim woman who exposes your corruption and reveals your double standards, confronting you with the truth: Islam does not treat women as commodities or mere slogans. Instead, their dignity is a divinely ordained Shariah right that the state upholds through power, authority, and justice. The Muslim woman today faces a choice that demands no hesitation: either to be a tool in a dying civilization that violates human dignity, or to be an aware part of a global Islamic project that restores humanity's balance and affirms her dignity. Think: which civilization deserves to lead humanity? Is it a civilization that stifles the cries of little girls in the corridors of power, and buries innocence under the feet of wealth and authority, or a civilization that makes the cry of a single woman something that moves a Sultan (Shariah ruling authority), mobilizes an army, and shakes an entire state?

The path is clear and there is no neutrality in it: either a civilization of self-interest, collapse and filth, or a civilization of revelation, justice, leadership and chastity. Allah (swt) said,

[قَدْ جَاءَكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُبِينٌ]

“There has come to you from Allah (swt) a light and a clear Book.” [TMQ Surah Al-Ma’idah: 15].