THE SPECIAL POSITION OF WOMEN IN
ISLAM
In this era, Islam is being attacked from all angles and fronts. Among
the popular issues that have been raised against Islam is the issue of the
status of women in Islam. They claim that Islam has given no rights to women,
that women are oppressed, that women are considered inferior to men. Actually
Islam had accorded women a position of honour, respect, safety and love, that
has not yet been matched to this day, let alone being superseded by any religion
or ideology. What Has Western Civilisation Given To
Women? Western civilisation has
given women freedom in the form of prostitution, free sex, escort agencies,
massage parlours, lesbianism, illegal mistresses, nudity and shamelessness. The
Western World has made women the cheapest commodity on earth. From a car to a
packet of sweets, everything sell with the picture of a nude or semi-nude woman
beside it. The body of this woman is the property of one and all.
Out-of-wedlock birth rate is increasing in the west. According to George A. Akerlof and Janet L. Yellen , in An Analysis of Out-Of-Wedlock Births in the United States, published in 1996, “Since 1970, out-of-wedlock birth rates have soared. In 1965, 24 percent of black infants and 3.1 percent of white infants were born to single mothers. By 1990 the rates had risen to 64 percent for black infants, 18 percent for whites. Every year about one million more children are born into fatherless families. If we have learned any policy lesson well over the past 25 years, it is that for children living in single-parent homes, the odds of living in poverty are great. The policy implications of the increase in out-of-wedlock births are staggering.” Are women really free and
safe in the west? According to a study conducted by the National Victim Centre, 1.3 women (age
18 and over) in the An estimated 51% of the sexual assault cases studied in the Sexual Violence in Women's Safety Project, A Community-Based Survey, 1995, were committed against young women between 16 and 21 years old. The National Violence Against Women Survey
found that rape is a crime committed primarily against youth in According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 77% of rapes are committed by someone who is known to the victim. Islam And Women When Islam came more than 1400
years ago, it taught that women and men were considered equal in the eyes of
God. However, it is important to note that, even though the rights and
responsibilities of a Muslim woman are considered equal to a Muslim man, they
are not necessarily identical, for equality and sameness are two different
things. This brings us to the concept of equity in Islam. Equity is a better term than ‘equality’
as ‘equality’ is sometimes misunderstood to mean absolute equality in each
and God has honoured women by giving them value in relation to God, not in relation to men. But as Western feminism erases God from the scene, there is no standard left but men. As a result, the Western feminist is forced to find her value in relation to a man. And in so doing, she has accepted a faulty assumption. She has accepted that man is the standard, and thus a woman can never be a full human being until she becomes just like a man. Thus, when a man cut his hair short, she wanted to cut her hair short. When a man wrestled, she wanted to wrestle. When men play football, women wanted to play football too, and so on. She wanted all these things because the ‘standard’ (that is men) had them. What she did not recognize was that God dignifies both men and women in their distinctiveness, not their sameness.
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