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"Woman" is one of the most controversial issues when it comes to the attack against Islam. Many questions arouse around the issue "woman's conditions in Islam". It is claimed that woman is restricted and deprived of all her rights in Islam. But in order to reach a fair judgment, we have to evaluate woman's condition before and after Islam.
First of all, before the advent of Islam woman was treated like a slave and considered as a property. Some examples of that humiliating practices against woman it to be mentioned as follows:
· Woman's personal consent related to their private life was considered unnecessary to the extent that she was never treated as a party to marriage contract.
· Women were used for only one purpose and then discarded, she had no importance or existence except from the physical usage.
· Woman had no independence, she wasn't allowed to have her own property or to inherit. Even, after the death of the father, the sons used to share his wives as they share his property.
· In the times of war, women were treated as part of the loot.
· The birth of a girl in a family was not an occasion of rejoicing, but was regarded as humiliation and disgrace , that's why the pagan Arabs used to bury their daughters alive as they believed that the daughter when she grow up will cause a disgrace.
These inhuman practices against women were not only in the Arab land, outside Arabia woman's conditions were not better. In India, women used to serve the father and brothers before marriage and serve their husbands and father- in -law after marriage. After the husband death, she had no right to live and had to be burnt alive at the pyre of her husband; this inhuman custom was called "Sati".
In Egypt and European countries during the dark ages, women were treated worse than slaves, even they were not considered as humans, but rather they were regarded as a sub-species between animals and humans.
· According to the Quran, men and women have the same spirit, there is no superiority in the spiritual sense between men and women, but physically, of course, men are stronger, and for that reason men are responsible for hard work not women.
· Unlike other doctrines, Islam doesn't blame Eve and her women race for the original sin of eating from the forbidden tree and getting Adam out of paradise. Nowhere in the Quran do we find any notion of blaming Eve for that first mistake.
· In terms of moral and spiritual duties or the acts of worship, the requirements of men and women are the same, except in some cases when women have certain concessions, because of their feminine nature and their health.
· God, in Islam, is very fair and just; the Quran explicitly in more than one verse states that whoever does good deeds whether a male or female will be given an abundant reward.
· Furthermore, there is no restriction in Islamic law that says a woman cannot work or has her profession. In fact, by definition, in a truly Islamic society, there must be women physicians, nurses, and teachers, even after marriage she still has the right to work with the consent of her husband.
· Women in Islam have the right to control and manage their own property, whether before or after marriage. Also she is not responsible for spending a penny of this property on her family, because she has the right to depend economically on her father before marriage and her husband after marriage.
· At the time of divorce, there are certain guarantees during the waiting period for a woman's support, and if she has children, she is entitled to child support.
· Unlike prior Islam, woman's consent to marriage is a prerequisite for the validity of the marriage contract, she has the right to freely say yes or no.
In return of all these rights and securities, men were given a hire share in inheritance because they are responsible for women in all cases, while women have no financial responsibilities towards anyone.
It is not only the Quran that praises woman, but also prophet Mohamed PBUH gave the woman a high position, that is clear in his saying:
"Anyone who has 2 daughters, and didn't bury them, and didn't insult them, and brought them up properly; he and I will be like this in paradise (holding his 2 fingers close together)".
As for the equality in the treatment of sons and daughters that many suffer from , one time prophet Mohamed was sitting down, a man came to sit beside him. After a while, the man's son came, so the man kissed him and sat him on his lap, then his daughter came, and the man just sat her beside him. Prophet Mohamed witnessed that all and told the man (you did not do justice), meaning he should treat both equally and exactly the same. Indeed whenever Fatima, prophet Mohamed's daughter, came to him, in front of anyone, he stood up to her and kissed her on her forehead, and sat her beside him.
This is how Islam sees the woman and treats her, without the slightest inclination to humiliate her or to deprive her of any of her rights. So the question here is that" was the woman's condition better before or after Islam???
Nour Elhoda
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First of all, before the advent of Islam woman was treated like a slave and considered as a property. Some examples of that humiliating practices against woman it to be mentioned as follows:
· Woman's personal consent related to their private life was considered unnecessary to the extent that she was never treated as a party to marriage contract.
· Women were used for only one purpose and then discarded, she had no importance or existence except from the physical usage.
· Woman had no independence, she wasn't allowed to have her own property or to inherit. Even, after the death of the father, the sons used to share his wives as they share his property.
· In the times of war, women were treated as part of the loot.
· The birth of a girl in a family was not an occasion of rejoicing, but was regarded as humiliation and disgrace , that's why the pagan Arabs used to bury their daughters alive as they believed that the daughter when she grow up will cause a disgrace.
These inhuman practices against women were not only in the Arab land, outside Arabia woman's conditions were not better. In India, women used to serve the father and brothers before marriage and serve their husbands and father- in -law after marriage. After the husband death, she had no right to live and had to be burnt alive at the pyre of her husband; this inhuman custom was called "Sati".
In Egypt and European countries during the dark ages, women were treated worse than slaves, even they were not considered as humans, but rather they were regarded as a sub-species between animals and humans.
· According to the Quran, men and women have the same spirit, there is no superiority in the spiritual sense between men and women, but physically, of course, men are stronger, and for that reason men are responsible for hard work not women.
· Unlike other doctrines, Islam doesn't blame Eve and her women race for the original sin of eating from the forbidden tree and getting Adam out of paradise. Nowhere in the Quran do we find any notion of blaming Eve for that first mistake.
· In terms of moral and spiritual duties or the acts of worship, the requirements of men and women are the same, except in some cases when women have certain concessions, because of their feminine nature and their health.
· God, in Islam, is very fair and just; the Quran explicitly in more than one verse states that whoever does good deeds whether a male or female will be given an abundant reward.
· Furthermore, there is no restriction in Islamic law that says a woman cannot work or has her profession. In fact, by definition, in a truly Islamic society, there must be women physicians, nurses, and teachers, even after marriage she still has the right to work with the consent of her husband.
· Women in Islam have the right to control and manage their own property, whether before or after marriage. Also she is not responsible for spending a penny of this property on her family, because she has the right to depend economically on her father before marriage and her husband after marriage.
· At the time of divorce, there are certain guarantees during the waiting period for a woman's support, and if she has children, she is entitled to child support.
· Unlike prior Islam, woman's consent to marriage is a prerequisite for the validity of the marriage contract, she has the right to freely say yes or no.
In return of all these rights and securities, men were given a hire share in inheritance because they are responsible for women in all cases, while women have no financial responsibilities towards anyone.
It is not only the Quran that praises woman, but also prophet Mohamed PBUH gave the woman a high position, that is clear in his saying:
"Anyone who has 2 daughters, and didn't bury them, and didn't insult them, and brought them up properly; he and I will be like this in paradise (holding his 2 fingers close together)".
As for the equality in the treatment of sons and daughters that many suffer from , one time prophet Mohamed was sitting down, a man came to sit beside him. After a while, the man's son came, so the man kissed him and sat him on his lap, then his daughter came, and the man just sat her beside him. Prophet Mohamed witnessed that all and told the man (you did not do justice), meaning he should treat both equally and exactly the same. Indeed whenever Fatima, prophet Mohamed's daughter, came to him, in front of anyone, he stood up to her and kissed her on her forehead, and sat her beside him.
This is how Islam sees the woman and treats her, without the slightest inclination to humiliate her or to deprive her of any of her rights. So the question here is that" was the woman's condition better before or after Islam???
Nour Elhoda

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