Women Rights
The issue of women in Islam, is
topic of great confusion 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.
From the spiritual aspect, there
are seven points to remember:
According to the Quran, men and
women have the same spirit, there is no superiority in the spiritual sense
between men and women. [Noble Quran 4:1, 7:189, 42:11]
The Quran makes it clear that all
human beings (and the phraseology doesn't apply to men or women alone, but to
both) have what you might call a human; He
"breathed some of My spirit
into divine touch. When God created him"(or her in this sense).[Noble
Quran 15:29 See also 32:9]
Some of His spirit here means not
in the incarnational sense, but the pure, innate spiritual nature that God has
endowed her or him with.
The Quran indicates again that
one of the most honored positions of human, is that God created the human, and
as I referred to Surah 17 earlier, it means both sexes, as His trustee and representative
on earth. There are many references in the Quran that reaffirm this.
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