What is woman, and why are all the troubles of the earth heaped on her door step? Only persons who can see well beyond their noses can answer these questions correctly.
Seeing well beyond the nose means rising beyond seeing woman as wife and mother and as an underdog in power relations with man. If we give the Almighty Creator the honour of perfection, including a definitive role for everything He created, we may see pictures of woman different from the ones we see on earth today.
Today, all problems on earth are heaped on the door step of woman. We are constantly informed that the state of a nation is the state of its womanhood. The troubles in the nation womanhood is often accused of formenting are not limited to illnesses from anti-Creation nutrition, broken homes,disoriented and deliquent society, social storms, gender disequilibrium, the fall of man and enthronement of the intellect, increasing separation of humanity from God, social and economic disasters, poverty, parenting failure and spiritual damnation of earth dwellers.
I wish I could limit these questions to woman as a cause of unending serious numerous health problems of today by asking only one simple question: Why was the simple Akwa Ibom woman of 50 years ago able, for example, to have nine children without the gynaecological problems which severely delimit today’s woman to no more than two or three children? Was it because she was a woman in and out, womanly, and today’s woman is a woman only in her physical body and less than a woman within her essence or ego? Is a woman still a womanly woman when she is a paratrooper, footballer, wrestler, soldier, pilot, boxer, politician, academic and a public bus driver? These questions come on the heels of the 2025 International Women’s Day observed in Nigeria on March 8, during which, literally speaking, women, again, demanded to become men.
They even demanded reservation of parliamentary seats for women when the constitutition forbids gender favouritism and discrimination, and the President agreed to support their lobby.
The definition of woman I subscribe to is the creature with a delicate inner essence which formed her delicate physical body, deliberately for a purpose.
I got the spiritual message from High School Physics… sound travels faster and better in air than in water or more solid body such as a rock. The Creator did not send humankind to the earth and abandon them.
The delicateness, looseness and permeability of the woman body permit messages from Him to easily permeate her as a storehouse of power for man nwho was created for coarse work on earth and whose coarse body for this task was not as readily receptive to currents of powder from on High.
Thus,woman and man were created for different purposses, woman for receptivity, man to work the earth and make it paradise like, with woman standing behind him as a storehouse of power and not beside or before him. Seeking to become man and coarse, she disturbs this creation Plan and causes all the troubles heaped on her door step.
Today, I yield the floor to a gentleman who, like me, believes woman is hardly any longer woman, and has given rise to severe damage of humanity by not pursuing True Womanness but Caricatures of Woman.
This gentleman is Samuel Sola Faboya, 76, a civil servant in the Western Region of Nigeria, Ondo and Lagos state. He is a thinker and offers rare insights into controversial questions which appear to defy solutions. Sometimes, as in this case, he offers his ideas in newspapers. Some of his publications are…
a). Islam and the Great Error ( The Punch)
b). In defence of The Nigeria Police (The Punch ) and
c). Woman, Know Thyself ( The Guardian). His original title for the article which follows is… 2025 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY IN RETROSPECT. The title of the column … 2025 International Women’s Day: PURSUIT OF CARICATURES! is mine.
On 8 March 2025, United Nations international Women’s Day was commemorated globally. In many cities all around the world, there were well intentioned gatherings at different fora, where issues and concerns affecting the ranks of womankind on Earth were wholesomely contemplated.
Decisions were taken to improve the material lot of women in their communities.
The Commemoration is, arguably, the most important of all the other events, when recognition and knowledge become more widely known, about the pre-eminent role of Woman, in the human society.
Hitherto, all the contemplations and decisions that have taken place at different fora globally… have consistently revolved around the socio-political and socio-economic circumstances of the Womenfolk!
We must be reminded that, for the past five decades, women have had to shake off complacency and passivity, to resolutely demand equity and social Justice… along with unfettered access to political and business opportunities. Kudos to all the women who have courageously spoken up, when and where it was expedient to speak, and, also, acted expediently, when it was timely to act!
All in all, it can be said that measurable progress has impacted the social, political and economic circumstance of women globally!
If the question is asked hypothetically, on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly as to Who Woman Is intrinsically, or, in other words, What Exactly Constitutes The Natue And Inner Being of The Woman, the answer would most likely be greatly influenced by concepts from the Adam and Eve narrative, in the Garden of Eden story. Strangely, many people who have held on (in faith) to that allegorical narrative have never asked themselves, whether a snake (the Serpent) such as reportedly engaged Eve, have ever spoken again, in human language, to any other human creature, after the momentous Garden of Eden incident! The Garden of Eden narrative, though, an allegorical narrative, was indeed conceived through spiritual inspiration and providentially adapted to the receptive capacity and maturity of mankind at the time!
No sensible mother on Earth would give a hamburger to a newly born baby. To that extent, therefore, the Divine that is Omniscient would not give to human creatures a body-of-knowledge which they will be unable to spiritually digest and assimilate!
The Adam and Eve narrative was and remained a beautiful, helpful and apt allegory, regarding the incarnation of human beings on earth and their subsistence thereon. It was, aptly, relevant to that epoch of human evolution and maturing development.
The feminine figure that we see as Woman among us in the human community on Earth still largely remains, an engaging enigma! It is said of her that… “the Hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world”.
This is a very true statement, rightly understood! It is also said of her… “behind every successful man, is a Woman”.
This is also what mankind have found to be true.To indeed rule the world, as indicated in the first statement, does confirm that she singularly influences and decides the fate of mankind, to a very large extent, in the expansive cycle of existence.
To be behind every successful man, indeed, confirms the critical supportive factor that she will ever remain, in the fulfillment or non-fulfillment for the man, as a provider for the home.
With the foregoing picture of the positive benevolent figure that she is, we should begin to ask ourselves why the ranks of Women on Earth had to ever go picketing, or carry placards in protest, before according to her, the honour of giving to her and, timely too, what is due to her! Before we humans can point accusing fingers in this connection … a “finger” is already being printed at her! And from where? … From Above! The finger is literally saying that she has not “completely” fulfilled her roles, as ordained by her Awesome Creator. When the “Eye” of her ever benevolent Creator now sees her in a long picketing line of protest, at times under very inclement weather… Her Creator would ask the question… “who has disempowered Woman, my creature… for her to have felt neglected, deprived, humiliated and unfairly treated”?
Her Creator who had invested her with exquisite wealth of endowments, for the general upliftment of mankind, however knows,that the pass-mark of Woman, for her service to be acceptable to Him… “is a hundred-per cent”.
Anything less is out of it! is a fairytale! Nine-nine percent is Not a pass-mark for her!
The Loyalty and commitment He expects from Womanhood to the Creative Will is absolute. No more… no less!
Let us look at the following two scenarios, for us to have glimpses of the positive Power and influence, which can emanate from the Woman… but which have not been pervasive and strong enough, to prevent humanity from morally drifting into the perilous danger of cosmic upheaval, that threateningly draws closer and closer, with each passing day!
In the first scenario, a well-dressed lady suddenly enters a room, where there were men drinking beer, and relishing rough immoral jokes.
The moment they sight the lady… THEY ALL STOP and this will be so for as long as she remains in that room! In contradistinction, to the entry of a girl in hot pants or thighs revealing, skimpy-skirt and a top, revealing her cleavages! The spontaneous response from the men would be suggestive whistling and such overtures, as to get her to share drinks with them and “enjoy” their company!
What is relevant to our reflection, on the commemoration of the International Women’s Day, is the response/reaction, to the first lady, whose presence, immediately stopped and restrained their further regression, into untoward exchanges. In the inner make-up of Woman is an incisive restraining Power that inhibits moral descent. Unfortunately, this incisive and uplifting Power has not been forthcoming consistently from Womanhood for it to be pervasive in the human community. This is why Woman could often find herself exposed and at the receiving end of acts of bestiality and brutality from the male. It is only the Woman that can refine the Man… And make a gentleman, of him! This is a recognition that awaits mankind in the nearest future.
The second scenario is a true and factual story which my late father told me. There was this very influential and powerful monarch in Ekiti State, whose domain was about 10 kilometers from my town! He became very oppressive to our town, harassing and intimidating our people. Matters soon came to a head and the men were determined to resist, by going into armed conflict. The men were on the verge of taking that final decision, when the women of the town restrained the men and requested that they, the women, should be allowed to step into the matter, and they did!
On a fateful morning, a band of women trekked from my town to see the monarch, whose mother, ironically, was a native of my town! They got to his palace, a storey-building with a balcony. He appeared to them, after keeping them standing for a while … and started raving contemptuously at them.
As he leaned on the railings of the balcony, lo and behold, the royal beads on his neck snapped and dropped right down, from his neck … and lay in front of the women! He knew immediately that he was in big trouble and immediately sent for his Chiefs, to help him placate the aggrieved women! He knew, in trado-cultural context, the grave implications of what had happened to him! The Women listened to the pleadings … And that was the day, he oppressionstopped!
What is the take-away from this? A band of Women decided to stand up for justice and instantly, got a remedy! That is just a glimpse of how women could be incisively and decisively effective for good, when they have not compromised or mortgaged what I can now call and term … “the Woman … in a woman”. There is indeed… the “Woman”, in a woman, which presupposes an instructive but sacred duality, in the figure, standing and person of the woman!
The monarch, that my towns-women engaged, in their legitimate quest for justice had a raw taste of the cutting-edge of the “Woman in a woman”. A sacred trust however, goes with the outworking of this divinely ordained duality, in the spiritual make-up of the feminine figure that we know as Woman on Earth! This sacred trust must never be breached through wrong aspirations and vanity…! If and when this happens, the reciprocal consequences for the guilty woman, is too grave to imagine.
Commemoration of the International Women’s Day to date has been one sided as the perspective employed has always been from the socio-political and socio-economic angles! These have only addressed the material and physical circumstances of the Woman of contemporary times! Curiously though, the generation of educated women are contented with the seeming improvements in employment and better access to business opportunities. While acknowledging these apparent improvements, the tragedy, is that womanhood on earth, is still a stranger to who she is… seen from above without realising it.
It needs to be revealed at this point that, the primary obligation and challenge facing the woman of contemporary times, is to get know more about the finer and stronger side of her nature, her being… her spiritual make-up to which she is still a complete stranger! And so long as she stands in reprehensible ignorance of this situation… so long, would she find herself at the receiving end of demeaning and bestial acts from her male counterpart (regardless of being a Harvard/Cambridge graduate) who is still largely immature though, in many respects. The deficient social systems cannot possibly fill these gaps.
What in real terms, makes a human creature to evolve into the male or female gender, is far above and beyond the knowledge of genetics and the interplay of genes, chromosomes and all that! The male or female gender, are consequential results of decisions prenatally taken (which can no longer be consciously recalled) to either work passively in Creation, which conditions such creature to evolve into a female creature and assume the typical female form; or, to work actively in creation, which correspondingly conditions that creature to evolve into a male entity, as it were! The woman is loosely constituted physically, with no bulging biceps; while the man is more solidly constituted physically, for reasons of the physical realities he has to face and contend with, on earth.
These aforementioned decisions/options, once made are literally irreversible, but can be weakened, compromised and undermined, through reckless human waywardness which can then weaken the creature’s inherent nature, giving rise to such human distortions, that we have come to know today, in LGBTQ, transgenderism phenomena… the causes of which still continue to baffle right-thinking mankind!
With a human creature opting at the morn of its conscious existence, to work passively in Creation, the Perfection and Omniscience in the outworking of the Creative Will, automatically, endows that female creature with an additional spiritual Gift… which exists to support and uplift the positive aspirations of mankind, enabling her to thus serve as the connecting-bridge between mankind on Earth… and the higher planes of existence, which are still largely closed to modern science and the generality of mankind today. The avoidable disconnect arising from this, have taken its toll on the content, value and direction of human life on earth. The aforementioned divinely endowed Gift, is … the “Woman in a woman”. The male sex basically lacks this Gift. Women therefore stand higher spiritually, than men for this simple reason.
Woman is to bring, to bear on mankind, such incisive virtuous influence, as would impact edifyingly on the humanity in Man… a humanity that has been degraded, debased, and given a wrong direction, the consequences of which mankind is currently groaning under.
It is blatantly unnatural for a woman to incline towards masculinity, while it is grossly undesirable for a man to become effeminate. A woman who strongly inclines towards masculine characteristics, will in time weaken “the woman” in her being. This weakening may oblige her to reincarnate as a Man. Yes, we would then see a man standing before us, but “he” is a woman in spirit! Such a “man” will be attracted through the homogeneity of mutual distortion to … a “woman” with all the external physical features of a woman … but she is a ‘man in spirit through distortion! These are the strange abberations of the present times. The key to the understanding of this bizarre phenomenon is, Spiritual Knowledge of the Laws of the Creative Will.
And lest we forget… so long, as rape, pornography, incest, gender violence thrives and subsists on Earth… Womankind would always have a case to answer before their Awesome Creator, who endowed them so gloriously that they may work in gracefulness, in the human community on Earth. It is within the realm of possibility for spiritually awakened Womanhood, to work for the complete effacement of these evil vices and odious outgrowths, from the face of the Earth. These are the primary issues that should engage the minds of Women at the commemoration of the International Women’s Day. This is where to start from… For Womanhood, the admonition should ideally… be “Seek ye first, the reorientation of the Woman in a woman, and all other things shall be added “
The WOMAN… in a woman, must be discovered, shielded, protected and employed to serve only the Divine Creative Will! That will then mark the beginning of a long-awaited moral resurrection of Mankind and the Earth itself.
•Olusola Faboya, Email: solafaboya@gmail.com. Sms: 08033969872
