2. THE QUALITIES OF A BELIEVING WOMAN

2. The qualities of a believing woman ~ 30 ~ familiarly known as worship, and its object should be none other than the Almighty. Believing men and women worship God and God alone. SIYAHAH (itinerancy). The virtues of undertaking journeys for God’s cause are best explained in the hadith recorded by Abu Dawud: “According to Abu Umamah, a certain individual once asked the Prophet’s permission to become a dervish. The Prophet replied that the dervishism of his ummah (community) meant struggling in the path of God.”30 Travelling for the cause of God includes, according to Imam Raghib Asfahani, taking such action for His sake as necessitate moving about from one place to another. Examples of such travel are: covering long distances in order to acquire a knowledge of religion; emigrating for the sake of religion; visiting scenes of natural beauty or places of historical interest which have some lesson for mankind; and, especially, undertaking journeys in order to convey God’s message to His creatures.31 These qualities, separately enumerated above, when taken together constitute an ideal, not just for men,