Women’s Rights in Islam

The issue of women in Islam, is the topic of great misunderstanding and distortion due partly to a lack of understanding, but also partly due to misbehavior of some Muslims which has been taken to represent the teachings of Islam. We speak here about what Islam teaches, and that is that standard according to which Muslims are to be judged. As such, my basis and source is the Quran–the words of Allah, and the sayings of the Prophet, his deeds and his confirmation. Islamic laws are derived from these sources. To facilitate our discussion we can discuss the position of women from a spiritual, economic, social, and political standpoint.

Merits of Maryam (Saint Mary)

The beauty of muslim women

 

Bismillaher rahmaner rahim. ( Glory be to Allah and i begin with praise of Him’.)

The beauty of our women.
She’s smart, modest, coy and witty, mashallah and she is so pretty. shes your , mother, sister and neice, without whom i know, i’d be missing a peice. she works, cooks and cleans, loves to drive, travel and ooh she also loves to read.

Most non-muslims would say that she was oppressed but thats probably because of the way that she is dressed, if only they knew she was too keen to impress! Allahu Akbar! she would so openly express…that life was nothing but a test.

Wife-beating is not allowed under no circumstances – A sincere advice to Ignorant Muslims and Islamphobes

“It is evident from many authentic Traditions that the Prophet himself intensely detested the idea of beating one’s wife, and said on more than one occasion, “Could any of you beat his wife as he would beat a slave, and then lie with her in the evening?” (Bukhari and Muslim).

According to another Tradition, he forbade the beating of any woman with the words,

“Never beat God’s handmaidens” (Abu Da’ud, Nasa’i, Ibn Majah, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ibn Hibban and Hakim, on the authority of Iyas ibn ‘Abd Allah; Ibn Hibban, on the authority of ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abbas; and Bayhaqi, on the authority of Umm Kulthum).

When the above Qur’aan-verse authorizing the beating of a refractory wife was revealed, the Prophet is reported to have said:

“I wanted one thing, but God has willed another thing – and what God has willed must be best” (see Manar V, 74).

With all this, he stipulated in his sermon on the occasion of the Farewell Pilgrimage, shortly before his death, that beating should be resorted to only if the wife “has become guilty, in an obvious manner, of immoral conduct”, and that it should be done”in such a way as not to cause pain (ghayr mubarrih)”; authentic Traditions to this effect are found in Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Da’ud, Nasa’i and Ibn Majah. On the basis of these Traditions, all the authorities stress that this “beating”, if resorted to at all, should be more or less symbolic – “with a toothbrush, or some such thing” (Tabari, quoting the views of scholars of the earliest times), or even “with a folded handkerchief” (Razi); and some of the greatest Muslim scholars (e.g., Ash-Shafi’i) are of the opinion that it is just barely permissible, and should preferably be avoided: and they justify this opinion by the Prophet’s personal feelings with regard to this problem.(Quran Ref: 4:34 ) ”
The Prophet explained it by “dharban ghayra mubarrih” which means “a light tap that leaves no mark”. He further said that face must be avoided. Some other scholars are of the view that it is no more than a light touch by a siwak, or toothbrush.

To confirm the above concept, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is reported to have said, “How does anyone of you beat his wife as he beats the stallion camel and then embrace (sleep with) her?” ( Reported by Al-Bukhari)

In another hadith, he is also reported to have said, “Do not beat the female servants of Allaah.”So we conclude Wife-beating is not allowed under no circumstances

Most Civilized women in 2013!!!!

Dont laugh, she is liberated, she is democratic, she is not exploited but she is valued for her intelligence ..

West democracy has given her GREAT STATUS…

and let’s see the 2013 (According to thierself Most Civilized)  Women in the World…

Choose which girl u like…1 throw 20 Baht…but not all of them are girls

AND what about those who have choosen the true way of life (not being slave of money…and not to b traded or sold for money)..

Islam Oppresses women!!!

women is alot precious, respected and loved and honored that’s why hijjab is ordered to protect you from evil eyes who dont’ deserves you. and your piousness to be harmed.

“Alma and Lila” and Huge change in thier life style!

The girls in the picture are the two French sisters Alma and Lila Lévy-Omari. Their story is so famous in France. Even though their parents are non religious (Jewish father and an Arab non practicing Muslimah mother), but the two French girls fell in love with the religion of Islam. At the beginning, the two girls stopped eating pork.

A while later, they informed their father that they intended to fast during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Then the sisters informed him of their intention to pray five times a day, as commanded by the Qur’an. There is no reason why they shouldn’t do this, thought the father. Then they stopped going to the beach and wearing bathing suits. At night the two sat and learned chapters of the Qur’an by heart. Friends in the neighborhood and at school were amazed by the change in the two cheerful young women.

Gradually they began to wrap themselves in long clothing, even in the summer, and covered their legs with thick stockings. A little while later, the transformation was completed. Lila and Alma donned scarves and covered their heads. At school they stopped talking to boys. They did not take part in physical education classes, as they were required to wear gym clothes that they felt revealed too much of their bodies.

In 2003, the headmaster of their high school made them choose between removing their “Hijab” (it wasn’t even a Hijab, they just covered their head, neck and ears) and between being excluded from their high school for ever. He even suggested that they show their ears and neck so that he let them continue their studies. But Alma and Lila considered that “showing ears and neck is no longer Islamic, is no longer Hijab” and refused the suggestion of the headmaster of their high school and left it on 24th September 2003.

Their Jewish father who is a lawyer, supported the decision of their daughters
“what a father would do if their daughters want to be modest?!” said the father “what they are wearing is not even the Islamic Hijab which should cover the chest! I support my daughters and I am proud of them!” One of the reasons some politicians and scholars cite for supporting the ban of the head covering is that the scarf -in their view- is a universal symbol of women being oppressed by men.

Alma says: “In my point of view, if you want to defend an oppressed woman, then don’t oppress another one.” Today, hundreds of girls like Lila and Alma Levy are forced to make a decision: To take off the scarf and continue their education or to insist on wearing it and face exclusion and even humiliation.

This is a clear message to every Muslimah who says that she can’t wear Hijab because they don’t allow it in her school/work.

Islam protects women from being Sex objects

Women Rights: Bible vs Quran

Treatment of Women in Jewish, Christian & Islam Faiths
Historical research indicates women have always been oppressed by male dominated religions.
What is Islam’s position on this? by Dr. Sherif Muhammad

Dr. Sherif Mohammad, an eminent writer-thinker with an academic background in electrical engineering. He currently lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Note:Since modern Western thought and paradigmas are based on Western cultural heritage, what is meant by religion has been the Judeo-Christian tradition. Both the Western thinkers and Orientalists and “Westernized” intellectuals in the Muslim world, in ignorance of Islam, have tended to criticize Islam from the perspective of the critics directed to the Judeo-Christian tradition. What follows is of great importance especially in correcting and clarifying this important matter from the viewpoint of the status of women in Islam.

Do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have the same conception of women?

Are they different in their conceptions?

Do Judaism and Christianity, truly, offer women a better treatment than Islam does?

What is the Truth?

It is not easy to search for and find answers to these difficult questions. The first difficulty is that one has to be fair and objective or, at least, do one’s utmost to be so. This is what Islam teaches. The Quran has instructed Muslims to say the truth even if those who are very close to them do not like it:

“Whenever you speak — speak justly even if a near relative is concerned.” (6:152) “O you who believe, stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to Allah, even as against yourselves, or your parents or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor.” (4:135).

The other great difficulty is the overwhelming breadth of the subject. Therefore, during the last few years, I have spent many hours reading the Bible, The Encyclopedia of Religion, and the Encyclopedia Judaica searching for answers. I have also read several books discussing the position of women in different religions written by scholars, apologists, and critics. The material presented in the following chapters represents the important findings of this humble research. I don’t claim to be absolutely objective. This is beyond my limited capacity. All I can say is that I have been trying, throughout this research, to approach the Quranic ideal of “speaking justly”.

I would like to emphasize in this introduction that my purpose for this study is not to denigrate Judaism or Christianity.

As Muslims, we believe in the divine origins of both. No one can be a Muslim without believing in Moses and Jesus as great prophets of God.

My goal is only to vindicate Islam and pay a tribute, long overdue in the West, to the final truthful Message from God to the human race.

I would also like to emphasize that I concerned myself only with Doctrine. That is, my concern is, mainly, the position of women in the three religions as it appears in their original sources not as practised by their millions of followers in the world today.

Therefore, most of the evidence cited comes from the Quran, the sayings of Prophet Muhammad, the Bible, the Talmud, and the sayings of some of the most influential Church Fathers whose views have contributed immeasurably to defining and shaping Christianity. This interest in the sources relates to the fact that understanding a certain religion from the attitudes and the behaviour of some of its nominal followers is misleading.

Many people confuse culture with religion, many others do not know what their religious books are saying, and many others do not even care.

Equality of Men and Woman in Islam, and their complementary nature to one another

In one sense, equality between men and women is possible and reasonable because they are both human, with similar souls, brains, hearts, lungs, limbs, etc. In another sense, equality between men and women is impossible and an absurdity due to their natural differences in physical, mental, emotional and psychological qualities, inclinations and abilities. Between these two we must tread to illuminate how they are equal, and how they are complimentary.

If total equality between all members of the same gender is impossible due to natural differences in strengths and other qualities, regardless of whether the gender is masculine or feminine, then it is definitely impossible between the two genders. Allah, the Exalted and Almighty, says in the Glorious Qur’an:

(And of everything We have created pairs, that you may remember (the Grace of Allah).)

[The Holy Quran, 51:49]