Guest post by KABOBfriend Sarah. Sticking it to the man…with your hands!
Sometimes, men don’t like to shake women’s hands. It’s not terribly common, depending on which circles one turns in, but when a man doesn’t want to greet a woman with a handshake, he normally puts his hand over his heart instead of grasping hers, either because of an aversion to touching a strange woman in general, or because he’s recently performed the ritual washings, or wudu’ ( وضوء) that are a prerequisite for prayer: if he then touched a woman before praying, he would have to perform them all over again.
One of my teachers knew a certain man who never liked to shake women’s hands; he always placed his hand over his heart when he saw her. One day, however, he appeared to have changed his mind: not only did he take her hand when he saw her, but he held it for much too long, rubbing her palm with his fingers. The next time she saw him, he attempted to shake her hand again, but she placed it over her heart. “Mitwadi’a (متوضئة),” she said, explaining that she had just performed the ablutions for prayer. She hadn’t really, of course, and the man was flabbergasted that she claimed to be about to pray in ordinary clothes with her hair uncovered (since even women who don’t veil often cover their hair for prayer), but he could hardly insist that she break her state of ritual purity to touch him, and she walked off laughing to herself at having used his own weapon against him.
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“Hand-job” is safe, clean and should be legalized and encouraged.But then people fear what they don’t know, and/or have been wrongly taught by Madrassass.
Posted by The Sword | December 4, 2008, 6:07 amOK .. first of all and talking from experience here .. it is the women that don’t like to shake men’s hands, especially the mhajbeen ones … i remember when i used to be a kid and we would get visitors or at a funeral or something when i would have to go around shaking people’s hands some women would do the whole “hand to heart” movement when i’d extend my hand … at first i used to get flustered and start second guessing myself when i saw a m7ajabe women but later my mom told me that for women i should just wait for them to do the first move .. if they extend their hands for a hand shake then i reciprocate and if not than i don’t and this strategy has not failed me yet … so plz don’t go bashing men for this whole unfortunate “hand shaking” buisiness .. it goes both ways: it’s not just the religious man that doesn’t shake a women’s hand but it’s also the religioius woman that doesn’t shake a man’s hand … and thank you for bearing with this very very long post
Posted by Ali | December 5, 2008, 3:10 pmwhy “hand job” b/w quotes?
Posted by sunbula | December 6, 2008, 8:23 pmBecaues “hand-job” is good “medicine”, and medicine supersedes religion sometimes.
Posted by The SWORD | December 6, 2008, 10:59 pmi feel like im missing the joke here.
Posted by sunbula | December 7, 2008, 6:22 am“handshake” is more of cultural thing than religious one. Hence, cultures are transient.”hand-job” with ejaculation is good for the prostate and the head with evidence. But then I’m aware that the empirical world presents itself with different consistency from person to person.
Posted by The Sword | December 7, 2008, 8:14 am