By D.I. Muhammad
In 2010 I published a poem called, My Sisters Cry. In the poem I spoke against the African practice that was done of Female Genital Mutilation, that proved a young woman's virginity, and after getting married the pain it caused when the man had sex with her.
I wrote of copper colored women in the poem enduring trauma. Well, it brings me to ask again, "Why are my sisters still crying?" This time I ask in regards to the Afgani women who are enduring tribulations that are unimaginable for any free woman walking the planet. I would hear the saying as a young adult woman, "There's always someone going through something worst than you." The Afgani women are that.
The Afghani women have been under a rule of suppression by the Taliban since 2021. Everything they were once allowed to do they can no longer do such as, schooling, which stops at Sixth grade, drive, run businesses, walk the street unless they have some place to be, and they have to have a male family member to escort them where ever they go.
According to, El Pais 50, "Afghan women are banned from working in the administration, security forces, banks, NGOs and United Nations humanitarian agencies. They cannot serve as prosecutors, judges or members of parliament and are not even allowed to run beauty salons, which the Taliban closed in July 2023, depriving them of one of the few places where they could still earn a living and socialize."(Hell on earth for Afghan women: From the ban on education to the legal rape of girls, (https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-06-02/hell-on-earth-for-afghan-women-from-the-ban-on-education-to-the-legal-rape-of-girls.html)
They are no longer able to work in health care, or to get seen by a doctor because they are men. According to Islamic Law, women are not to show themselves to men who are not their husband, father, brother, grandfather. In Afghanistan women are required to wear Abaya. An Abaya is a garment that covers a woman from head to toe. You can see no part of her.
According to UN News,
"The UN gender equality agency, UN Women, is raising alarm over the latest Taliban decree which further erodes Afghan women and girls of their rights, nearly five years after the Taliban returned to power.
Decree No. 18, issued by Afghanistan’s de facto Ministry of Justice on 14 May, outlines rules for separation from a spouse and has sparked concerns over an increase in child marriage and women’s ability to leave abusive relationships.
Unlike laws in place before the Taliban takeover, the decree sets no minimum age for marriage and instead rules that child marriage can only be annulled only after a girl reaches puberty.
The move risks normalizing child marriage in Afghanistan. (UN warns Afghan women are ‘no longer equal before the law, May 26, 2026, https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/05/1167591)
The other thing that has risen is child marriage. Men are able to marry a child as young as six or seven. Where does this come from? They are following the ways and actions of Muhammad when he married Aisha.
In the hadith of Al-Bukhari:
Sahih al-Bukhari 5134 - Wedlock, Marriage (Nikaah) - كتاب Ø§Ù„Ù†ÙƒØ§Ø - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه Ùˆ سلم) (https://share.google/VFnGDjnzaFPjgBTjY)
"Narrated `Aisha:
that the Prophet (ï·º) married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: I have been informed that `Aisha remained with the Prophet (ï·º) for nine years (i.e. till his death). (Sahih Al-Buhkari 1534
In Sahih Muslim,
16
The Book of Marriage
(10)
Chapter: It is permissible for a father to arrange the marriage of a young virgin
(10)
باب تَزْÙˆِيجِ الأَبِ الْبِÙƒْرَ الصَّغِيرَØ©َ
"Sahih Muslim 1422 c
'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Allah's Apostle (ï·º) married her when she was seven years old, and he was taken to his house as a bride when she was nine, and her dolls were with her; and when he (the Holy Prophet) died she was eighteen years old. (https://sunnah.com/muslim:1422c)"
Nowhere in the Quran is this spoken of. The Quran does say of marriage that,
"21.And one of His signs is that He created for you spouses from among yourselves so that you may find comfort in them. And He has placed between you compassion and mercy. Surely in this are signs for people who reflect. (Translated Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Book Ar-Rum,
Quran.com)
"187.Permitted to you, on the night of the fasts, is the approach to your wives. They are your garments and ye are their garments. Allah knoweth what ye used to do secretly among yourselves; but He turned to you and forgave you; so now associate with them, and seek what Allah Hath ordained for you, and eat and drink, until the white thread of dawn appear to you distinct from its black thread; then complete your fast Till the night appears; but do not associate with your wives while ye are in retreat in the mosques. Those are Limits (set by) Allah: Approach not nigh thereto. Thus doth Allah make clear His Signs to men: that they may learn self-restraint." (Translated by Yusuf Ali, Al-Baqarah, Quran.com)
What book are the Taliban following? That it's now allowed for any man in the country to legally beat a woman when she is barely breathing under a tyrannical system. Rape is now legal.
So, I don't know which atrocity disgust me more. FGM or what's happening in Afghanistan that world leaders act as if it doesn't exist. I mean tell the world how you really feel about women, without saying a word.
I believe in Karma, because she does her job exceptionally well. I'm waiting on her to come see that nation, and give you your due justice. Too many tears are falling. Too many lives have been done. Free will of rights given by the Divine have been trampled upon like its okay. It's just too many.
While a system is hiding behind a religion when in actuality its men bent on power, and ego, that don't like women, and geared towards pedophilia. But the article only mentions the men marrying underage girls. What happens to a society when the women are gone, and the men have to deal with their own devices among one another. You then have a society built on pederasty. The issue on men dealing with young boys. Who's to say that is not already occurring.
There have been those who were able to break free, and flee to England were they are advocating on behalf of the other Afghani women. The Afghani women have also protested as well, only to be beat by the Taliban for doing so.
Why Are The Women Still Crying
D.I. Muhammad
Why are the women still crying?
Feeling carried by men who are broken
Governed by a declaration of religion
Free will abused
You will spiritual get what you sow because of that.
I don't know what to be more pissed at female genital mutilation
Or the fact that a woman's whole identity just got
ripped away
You want to keep her ignorant, unseen, and not heard
Floating in your own ego
My sister's cry is more than drive by
It's now stripping her of God given rights
No protection from the wrath of an angry man
May the Most High Protect you
May your sons become men with morals
That what is natural for you be given back to you.
Dedicated to the Afgani women
2026
A Message To ALL Men
This is the season for men to start working in alignment with women. This is not about rule over men like it was in patriarchy. Women, if you go into this season thinking that or repeating those actions, the ancestors will deal with you too. We are in a season of alignment, unity, working together. Matriachy is rising back to her seat where she will accept nothing except her Divine Masculine to sit next to her.
