At the same time, she pointed out that she knew girls who were greatly impressed by Yousuf's attire and her decision to completely shun any material contact with the opposite gender. My wife realised my perspective immediately and assured me that her sole reason for going was just to learn the Tafseer-e-Quran (exegesis of the Holy Quran) and she was vigilant enough to not be influenced. The problem to me was that the scholar in question, due to her position and her female following, could influence them to adopt a similar lifestyle. Once you give up your right to use public spaces, you are effectively agreeing to be a nobody.
Such a woman cannot work outside her home and will be absent from most public places. My logic was that a woman who believes that no man should listen to her voice (even indirectly) was thoroughly regressive as she is yielding all the rights which have been provided to her. I was shocked beyond belief at this revelation and questioned my wife about her decision to go to such lectures. “She explicitly forbids recordings because she does not want her voice to be heard by na-mehrams.” I then asked her to record her lecture next time she goes so I could listen to her, to which my wife responded: “She does not have any YouTube videos,” my wife answered. Intrigued, I expressed my desire to listen to her on YouTube. When my wife sat in the car, I asked her about the scholar.
When I reached the centre, the lecture had just ended and I saw a large number of women from apparently affluent backgrounds coming out of the hall. One night, my wife asked me to pick her up after the lecture. During the holy month, my wife decided to attend Dars-e-Quran sessions conducted by a certain Islamic scholar, Tahira Yousuf. My visit coincided with the month of Ramazan. I was in Pakistan for a month and a half due to the demise of my father.
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