Topic: Woman in Islam

[just_smile_be_cool]

Alsalamu alaykom,..

The role of women in Islam has been misunderstood in the West because of general ignorance of the Islamic system and way of life as a whole, and because of the distortions of the media.

The Muslim woman is accorded full spiritual and intellectual equality with man, and is encouraged to practice her religion and develop her intellectual faculties throughout her life. In her relations with men both are to observe modesty of behavior and dress and a strict code of morality which discourages unnecessary mixing of the sexes. Her relations with her husband should be based on mutual love and compassion. He is responsible for the maintenance of the wife and children, and she is to give him the respect due to the head of the family. She is responsible for the care of home and the children's early training. She may own her own property, run her own business and inherit in her own right.

She may not be married without being consulted and is able to obtain divorce. The system of limited polygamy can be seen to have its uses which may be in the interests of women as well as men. Finally she can look forward to an old age in which she is respected and shown every care by her children and by the society as a whole.

Islam has raised the value of women in our life but other people made them  unvaluable ..

What's your opinion

[candle of Islam]

It's a very bad thing to say that Islam didn't raise the value of Muslim women. Every woman has her rights and duties

[azizrasul]

I see non Muslim women in the west not having certain rights. For example they do not enjoy equal pay for the same job, they are treated as sex objects to be thrown out when they no longer meet the standard, end up in care homes, used as mistresses, etc.   The women themselves don't have have the sense of decency or dress, foul indecent language at the workplace, etc. ISLAM gives all the rights to women. There may be, out of ignorance, some Muslim men who do not give women these rights and they will be held in judgement for it.

[manahel.fatima]

Yes up till now so far i have studied about Islam. i have read at every place that Islam is the first religion who give importance and value to women. They save baby girls from buried alive. They save women to be killed with his husband after death, or burn them with their husband. All equalities in every step of life is given by Islam.