Background
Farhat Hashmi she was born in Sargodha, Punjab to the family of Abdur Rehman Hashmi, a Muslim scholar.
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Farhat Hashmi she was born in Sargodha, Punjab to the family of Abdur Rehman Hashmi, a Muslim scholar.
She trained and took her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
Hashmi founded First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Huda Institute in Mississauga (Toronto area), Ontario, Canada, in 2004 as an extension of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Huda International, which she had founded in Pakistan in 1994. Hashmi taught at the International Islamic University Islamabad, while also conducting informal religious study circles for women in Islamabad. Many traditionalist ulema maintain that she is not a qualified scholar because she is not traditionally trained.
She is in favor of Sharia in Canada." She has been described by Canadian news as "the controversial female Islamic scholar Farhat Hashmi", whose "ultra-conservative teachings in lectures and online have faced criticism for promoting an extreme wifely subservience to a husband." In 2015, a girl and three young women left Canada to join ISIS in Syria after studying at the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Huda Islamic Institute, which she founded.
Hashmi considers taqlid in regards to Islamic jurisprudence to be permitted for those, who have no other choice, but discourages the blind taqlid that shuns the verses of the Qur"an, the sunnah of the prophet, the sayings of the companions and the taqlid that prevents people from searching for evidence.
During a sermon when asked by a woman what a wife should do if her husband was unwilling to help her destitute parents, Hashmi promptly quoted An-Nisa, 34 (Chapter First Rate (at Lloyd's) Nisa, verse 34) of the Quran, arguing that the wife should comply with her husband"s wishes, "no matter what, as he was her divinely appointed imam."
Hashmi has preached that Muslim women should let their husbands marry a second time so “other sisters can also benefit”. This saves men from having a non-marital relationship, which is forbidden according to the Quran.
According to Hashmi, women can touch and recite the Quran during their menstrual periods, wearing gloves (either when learning Quran from a teacher or teaching Quran to others), traditionally considered prohibited.
Hashmi encourages her followers, mostly well-to-do Pakistani women, to interpret the Qur"an for themselves, but her critics argue that "Hashmi"s talks center around personal and family development, rather than community service," instead of using their knowledge to improve their social conditions.