Be a Man!” Constructing Prophetic Masculinity.

Be a Man!” Constructing Prophetic Masculinity
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
Introduction
“Be a man, stop this crying right this minute!” These words are familiar to most adult men today as a part of their upbringing, irrespective of their heritage. Undoubtedly, the conceptualization of “manliness” has always been dependent on context. But it seems always to be relevant, whether to conservatives or liberals, as a prominent point in a society’s morality. For many even in our contested society, ‘being a man’ is still a major plank of moral and familial life. To those who see it as such, it is not something bestowed by law on a certain birthday. It is earned and must be continually proven.
How should Muslims in the modern West approach the phrase ‘Be a man’? What does that mean and, more importantly, how do we make sense of the changes that have occurred and seem to be constantly occurring at an even greater rate every day in how the phrase is understood? How can the scriptures of Islam guide us, and what model do they provide?
In this paper three issues will be addressed:
1. The usage of Arabic masculine pronouns in the Qur’an;
2. A Qur’anic paradigm distinguishing ar-Rajul al-Kamil—a Complete (refined) Man—from a genetically male individual; and
3. Constructing the Prophetic masculinity.

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