Dear Fiends;
In the recent past, I posted an email which stated that Islam has better
provisions for looking after females than in some other religions.
Here is a letter from Craig Seaton from Brighton,UK to the Metro of London (01
03 2012) from another angle:
It is amazing that in a 21st century society, women still have to fight and
argue the case for not being identified as single or married by
their title (Metro, Wed).
In Islam, often criticised for its treatment of females, women have had this
right for centuries, with no titular difference between single and married
women -and no debate about being referred to as Ms, Miss or Mrs.
Also, as alluded by one correspondent, we have a custom in which a woman loses
her family name on marriage. In Islam a woman keeps her family name on
marriage. Until relatively recently, we used to have a practice in which upon
marriage, a woman's assets were no longer her but belonged to her (hence why
women were not allowed bank accounts). Again, in Islam, women's pre-marital
assets (cash, property etc) remain theirs.
Despite the criticisms some make about the status of women in Islam, in this
respect, they are well ahead of us.
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-bhuban
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