Women In Muslim Society

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Women in Muslim Society

Women in Muslim Society

     Muslim society over the centuries has treated women as second class
citizens.  It's been this way since the beginning of time.  Women are treated in
this manor for a number of reasons, but all leading back to the Quran.  Women
are considered inferior to men, are treated unfairly in marriage, and even are
oppressed legally, but all are approved of in the Quran.  It describes in detail
the way that a women is to be treated and the way a women should treat her
husband.
     The Quran expresses the equality of the sexes in the following.  "And
their Lord answereth them, `I will not suffer the work of him among you that
worketh, whether of male or female, to be lost.  the one of you is the issue of
the other."(Q 3:195)  So while the Qur`an holds the works of men and women in
equal regard and acknowledges that they are completely interdependent to their
very existence, They are not regarded as having equal worth as people. The fact
that  men are a step above the women and superior to them is evident in the
following verses. "And it is for the women to act as they (the husbands) act by
them, in all fairness; but the men are a step above them."(Q 2:228) "Men have
authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the
other."(Q4:34) Women are thought of as being lower in intellect and spirituals
in comparison to men.  In the Quran it states, "And of His signs is that He
created for you, of yourselves, spouses, that you may repose in them."(Q 30"21)
This causes many Muslims to look at women as creations like the animals and
plants and other useful things created by Allah.  Muslims believe that women are
lacking many of the traits that men possess.  The believe that women are lacking
gratitude as well as intelligence.  The Hadith speaks of this subject saying,
"Women are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favours and
the good (charitable) deeds done to them.  If you have always been good
(benevolent) to one of them and then she sees something in you (not of her
liking), she will say, `I have never received and good from you."  Also women
are not reliable witnesses due to their lack of intelligence and their emotional
state. It is said that, "Women was made to bear and feed children. Therefore
she is very emotional.  And she is forgetful, because if she did not forget how
it is to give birth she would not have another child.  That is why she will not
be as reliable a witness as a man."
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