saudi to allow women to drive

Look at this madness. This is what happens when you make things ḥarām without any logical reason; except for the desires of your "master". This is what happens when the orders of your "master" are more dear to you than commandments of your Maker.

All these years, the Saudi official clergymen had worked hard to attempt to religiously legitimize the barring of women from driving and here we are as the politics are changing so too are the fatāwā. Now it's ḥalāl, and I wouldn't doubt that it could become wājib soon if needed. In a fatwā written by "The Standing Committee for Scholarly Research and Issuing Fatwa" about women driving in the 90s, they simply answered, “This is impermissible without a doubt...” Such fatāwā were pouring everywhere throughout the 90s and they continued to occasionally surface through the first decade of the new century.

All sorts unusual reasons were used to justify this. “Women are intellectually inferior to men. They have half a brain.” Some went a step further and said, “They have a quarter brain when they go shopping.” “Women will cause car accidents as they are emotional.” Really? Women are the cause of car accidents in Saudi Arabia?! “They will start dating men.” As if men will not date them back! “They will be alone with foreign men!” As if they are not alone with their personal drivers already! “Driving harms the ovaries of women, and that's why Americans, French, and Europeans just have 2-3 three children because of their ovaries malfunctioning!?” Really?!

If you are trying to make sense of the previous justifications, don't. They make no sense. Now they are saying, it's completely ḥalāl as that is that 'the default ruling of anything other than acts of worship'.

Don't trust government infiltrated fatwā bodies. Don't trust "Islamic studies" or any studies that are being steered for political purposes. Academics require political freedom to remain objective.

As Said Nursi (r) would say, “I seek refuge with Allah from Satan and politics...”

P.S. Many unusual fatāwā will surface in the coming days which have nothing to do with Islam, and many old fatāwā will be retracted which had nothing to do with Islam.