Rights of women in Islam

Rights of women in Islam

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Allah has created every living in Paris- male and female (51:49), including mankind. Allah has honored the children of Adam both male and female (17:70). Men and women who believe are protectors of one another (9:71). Allah will reward both men and women in the life after death (3:195).

In Islam, women was a distinct and separate identity, Islam has given women a right to own property. She is the owner of her earnings. No one (father, husband, or brother) has a right over them. She can dispose of her earnings and property as she wishes, within the bounds of halal (lawful) and haram (unlawful).

Islam has given women a right to inheritance. She has a part in the property of her dead father, mother, husband, and childless brother (4:7, 32, 176).

She has a right to choose her husband. No one can impose a decision on her against her will. She has a right to seek separation (khula) from her husband if their marriage becomes impossible to sustain.

The Qur’an asks the Muslims to treat women kindly (4:19). It makes Muslim husbands responsible for their wife’s maintenance. The women, in return, are expected to remain obedient and chaste (4:34)

A woman has a right to develop her talents and to work within the limits of Islam. Islam when allows Muslim men to marry Jewish or Christian chaste women it also allowed those non Muslim married women to retain her religion and her husband cannot interfere in this freedom.

Islam also allowed and hajj as per condition applied to them. Even if they performed any optional ibadah (like congregational prayer, jum’a prayer, eid prayer, fasting outside the month of Ramadan, optional charity, 2^nd hajj etc.) they also get the same reward and same benefit as well as the men.

Islam is the last and final word of Allah, ending the series of his messages to mankind. It therefore came with a general law suitable for all times and places, and for the whole of humanity. It did not legislate for the men, while neglecting the women, nor for the city dweller only, while neglecting the migrant, nor for the cold regions while ignoring the hot ones, nor for one particular period of time, forgetting later times the generations to come. Islam is the complete code of life for al the time and for all human beings.

Written by Shaon  ,

Collect from IIUC International Islamic University Chittagong