A friend of mine came from Afghanistan and I took him out for a city
tour. He asked me what the best thing here is in this city that I have to see.
“As it is the first time travel to Europe, I want to show you something that
you have never seen in your life” I told him.
I took him to the Red Light Street. It was a real Cultural Shock when
we got there. He did not want to look at the naked girls behind the glass showcase
of the windows. “It is Harram (prohibited) to look at the naked bodies of the girls” he said.
“I have been fighting with the vicious inner desires of mine for a long time
and protected my eyes from looking at bad scenes and now you are making me feel
guilty” he continued while he was looking only at the ground or sometimes at
the sky to protect his eyes from looking at the naked girls.
“Common, it is Haram there because the parents and the brothers of the
girls would and mind if you look their daughter or sister and it will create
social problems and here nobody objects of you look at them and everybody they
like to show their bodies to you” I told him.
Guest visitor: How do
you know that their families would not mind this situation? Maybe they don’t
know about it … I am sure there are no parents in this world who would raise a
child to be a prostitute in the future … if they are forced to do this
prostitution due to poverty, then it would be even a bigger sin for me to look
at them.
Host and the city tour guide: Common man! Please look at them. I brought you here to look around and
enjoy but now you are judging me because of that and that is making me feel so
sad … I am sorry that I brought you here without telling you first … I should
have told you first about it and then we could come here only if you wanted to
see …
Guest visitor: No, it
is ok … please don’t feel that way about it.
Host and the city tour guide: Let’s see. Why don’t you talk to one them and ask all these questions
from them? There is only one person with top clothes on her and shorts. She is
the most beautiful woman in this street. Only her legs are visible and that is
a normal thing here because you see many people walking on the streets with
shorts. Would you look at her and talk to her?
Guest visitor: You
are like a Satan … you are somehow encouraging me to look at them and to
talk to them anyways (he smiles). But the problem is not for me to look at them
or not to look at them. The question is whether I want to create such a moral
code of conduct for myself and the people around me like “men are allowed to
look at the naked body of women who belong to other families”. If I look at
them, for me it means that I will accept others to look at my family members
the same way. Do you remember the Dari proverb “Do not like for others whatever
you don’t like for yourself”.
Host and the city tour guide: Let’s go and talk to her and ask all your questions directly from her,
is that OK?
Guest visitor: No, I
don’t want to go there and I don’t want to talk to her. I am here for a week
and then I will go back to Afghanistan and you know that I don’t have good
stories about you and here to say to my family. You know it well that lying is
also Harram (prohibited) and I don’t want to lie to my family. What would I tell to my family
about you when I go back there? I have no choice to tell them that you drank a beer
and took me to the Red Light Street. You have changed a lot and if I tell say
all these things there in Afghanistan, I don’t think that daughter of my uncle
would agree to get married with you.
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