WOMEN
IN ISLAM
Subjugated or Emancipated?
By Aftab Khan
Although man and woman have been created equal, but
they are not identical. Both have been fashioned differently from each
other, so their roles and responsibilities are also different. The variation in
their functions does not imply that one is inferior to the other. Islam has
offered dignity, justice, and protection to women which, for long, have
remained out of their reach.
“O Mankind! Be conscious of your Sustainer, who has created you out of one living entity, and out of it created its mate, and out of the two spread abroad a multitude of men and women. And remain conscious of God, in whose name you demand (your rights) from one another, and of these ties of kinship. Verily, God is ever watchful over you!(Qur’an;4:1); “I will not let the good deed of any among you, whether a male or a female, be wasted:” (Qur’an;3:195)
The Muslim women are expected to be dressed modestly like Mary, the
mother of Jesus Christ. Islam granted the rights of divorce & inheritance to
women 1400 years ago, once no woman could dream of this freedom.
Regrettably in some Muslim societies, the rights
granted to the women by Islam are denied due to the local culture and
traditions, for which Islam can not be blamed. With more education and
awareness this problem could be overcome. Muslim countries have highest number
of female head of governments. In Islam women not subjugated but liberated.
INDEX:
Read More:
- Honorable Status of Women in Islam
- Women Modesty & Piety in Islam
- Marriage: Right of Choice, Divorce & Dower
- Women's Inheritance
- Polygene, Polygamy
- Woman granted right of Divorce , Khula
- Mother, Children & Family
- Women's right to Entrepreneurship in Islam
- Evidence by Women
- Women and Paradise
- Slavery
- Women in the Western Culture
- Prominent Muslim Women
- Hijab - Women may not cover Face
- Women & History
- E Book Women
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