In an era where concepts have become lost and slogans are raised higher than values, two movements have emerged that appear to be opposites on the surface: feminism, which raises the slogan of "women's liberation", and the redpill movement, which claims to "restore man to his position". However, one who contemplates their essence finds that they are two sides of the same coin, united in violating human nature, dismantling the family, and distancing humanity from the divine methodology that God made a balance of justice and mercy between the genders.
Islam came fourteen centuries ago to establish the balance of the relationship between men and women on affection and mercy, not on conflict and competition. God Almighty said: "And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquillity in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy" [Ar-Rum: 21]. This verse alone is sufficient to invalidate any claim based on war between the genders, for the relationship in its origin is tranquillity and mercy, not hostility and enmity.
As for modern feminism, it has transcended the demand for justice to rebellion against human nature. Instead of elevating women's status through knowledge and chastity, it pushed them towards immodesty and rebellion against femininity, until they came to think that resembling men is freedom and that discarding modesty is liberation. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "God has cursed the women who imitate men and the men who imitate women" [Sahih al-Bukhari: 5885].
From the womb of this deviation emerged the redpill movement as an opposing reaction, no less corrupt than what preceded it. It carried feelings of hatred and revenge against women and began to view the relationship between the genders as an endless cold war, calling for men's harshness and emotional detachment, and for contempt of women under the pretext of restoring "male dominance". Thus, both sides fell into the same trap, where each feeds the other and justifies its existence by the other's existence, until the Muslim nation was drawn into a battle that is not its own.
Both ideologies are alien to Muslims, fueled by savage capitalism that sees men and women only as tools of consumption. It stirs conflict between them to sell, corrupts human nature to profit, and empties life of its spiritual meaning to fill the pockets of the deceivers. They do not realize that Islam preceded them all when it established justice not through superficial equality, but through the complementarity of roles. It made guardianship a responsibility, not an honor; modesty an adornment, not a weakness; and motherhood a mission, not a burden.
God willed for man to be a maintainer with justice and for woman to be a source of tranquillity through mercy, not for them to exchange roles or compete for leadership. He said: "Men are in charge of women by [right of] what God has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth" [An-Nisa': 34]. Whoever deviates from this balance has deviated from the wisdom of the Creator and fallen into the chaos of whims and misguided thought.
Despite differing names and slogans, redpill and feminism meet in one goal: weakening the Muslim family and distorting the meanings of femininity and masculinity established by divine revelation. Salvation from this confusion can only be achieved by returning to the divine methodology, which combined justice and mercy, strength and gentleness, intellect and emotion, in a balance that only faith can create.
Let both men and women return to the position God willed for them, not the position dictated by media or Western whims. True happiness is not built on conflict, but on obedience that yields serenity, affection blessed by God, and tranquillity shaded by faith.