WOMEN IN ISLAM AND SURGES OF MODERNIZATION
AN OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW


If we look to the eastern communist world or the democratic nations, we find that woman is not really in a happy position. Her status is not enviable. She has to work so hard to leave and sometimes she may be doing the same job that a man does but her wage is less than his.
She enjoys a kind of liberty which in some cases amounts to libertinism. To get to where she is nowadays, woman struggled hard for decades and centuries .To get the right of learning and the freedom of work and earning, she had to offer painful sacrifices and give up many of her natural rights. To establish her status as a human being possessing a soul, she paid heavily .Yet in spite of all these costly sacrifices and painful struggles; she has not acquired what Islam has established by a divine degree for the Muslim woman.
The rights of woman of modern times were not granted voluntarily or out of kindness to the female. Modern woman reached her present position by force and not through natural processes or mutual consent or divine teachings.
What Islam has established for woman is that which suits her nature, gives her full securities and protects her against disgraceful circumstances and uncertain channels of life. We don t need here to elaborate in on the status of modern women .Most woman today exercise the right of freedom to go out independently , to work and earn , to pretend to be equal to man, but this , sadly enough, is at the expense of their families .This all known and obvious .What is not known is the status of woman in Islam .An attempt will be made in the following passages to sum up the attitude of Islam with regard to woman.

1. Woman is recognized by Islam as a full and equal partner of man in the procreation of humankind. He is the father , she is the mother and both are essential for life. Her role is not less vital than his .By this partnership she has an equal share in every aspect ; she is entitled to equal rights ; she undertakes responsibilities ,and in her there are as many qualities and as much humanity as there are in her partner . To this equal partnership in the reproduction of humankind god said:
“o mankind ! verily we have created your form a single (pair) of a male and a female ,and made you into nations and tribes that you may know each other …(Qur’an)
2. she is equal to man in bearing personal and common responsibilities and in receiving rewards for her deeds . She is acknowledged as an independent personality , in possession of human qualities and worthy of spiritual aspirations . Her human nature is neither inferior to nor deviant from that of man. Both are members of one another .She is equal to man in the pursuit of education and knowledge . When Islam enjoins the seeking of knowledge upon Muslims , I makes no distinction between man and woman .Almost fourteen centuries ago, the prophet Mohammad declared that the pursuit of knowledge is incumbent on every Muslim male and female . This declaration was very clear and was implemented by Muslims throughout history.


To conclude , I think that the main problem of Islam and woman in Islam ,our subject, is the fuzzy and horrible picture Muslims send to the other nations . I aimed from this topic to change this picture and give the real theory of Islam about woman .

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i will be a bit blunt. I have not read everything.
I am just thinking, that knowledge and education is very important,how you interpret texts etc.
I have met many muslim people here at iPeace, I am just not sure if this is how people generally read the Texts. Islam has got a lot of good intention in it (I couldn't think of the word I was looking for there), but it could also turn bad.

I would be grateful if anyone had the energy to compare the ideologies of different arab nations for me. Because at this stage politics matters.

Thanks,
/Erika.
i can help you but just explain more tome what did you mean by the ideologies of different arab nations.thank s
Yes, I know this is "crazy", I have so little knowledge about political systems in the world.

If I put it this way: as I understand it, there is no separation between a muslim state and its religion. This is how/what we learn (here).

And then each arabic country must have its own "flavour" of islam? I am not sure about how correct it is to think of a muslim society as being an arabic country...

But all these countries must be pretty different: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Thunisia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Iran...and for me, if we talk about "Islam" I feel totally confused of where is what. Do you understand? I cannot put the religion/s/ into a global understanding. If I would read books about each and every country to get a clue what their politics are, it would take me my whole life.

I know there was a revolution in Iran and that is somehow central, but not much more.

I would appreciate some feedback.

//erika.
"as I understand it, there is no separation between a muslim state and its religion."

"And then each arabic country must have its own "flavour" of islam?"


It's true that Muslim nations tend toward theocracy (no separation of church an state), but it's not the same in every muslim nation. Also in each muslim nation there are several flavors of Islam, usually with one or two dominant forms.

"I know there was a revolution in Iran and that is somehow central"

Interesting that you mention Iran.
The revolution in Iran was to oust the religious leader (the Shah) who was supported by US and the Brits after they had overthrown the democratically elected premier Mossadeq. The reason for his overthrow was that he wanted to nationalize Iran's oil industry instead of having it run by British oil corporations.

Iran now is a strange mix of theocracy and modern democracy. They do have a democratically elected head of state and government, but it does not control everything in Iran. Last time i checked the military and the police are under control of the (not democratically elected) religious leadership in Iran. The police, military and religious militants regularly clash with students, a majority of whom are rather liberal.
I take it that Islam, just as Christianity, has it's share of fanatics.
That combined with Western political- and corporate interests in the Middle East makes it all to easy to paint the people of the Middle East as enemies of the West.
Religions are not a matter of fanatics.

I did not say that they are that.
I said both Christianity and Islam have fanatics.

Maybe there are some fanatics among the believers,

That's what i said.

but we cannot generalize.

I did not generalize.


Some explanation to soft-sword about my previous comment:

Political- and corporate forces more often than not have different interests than the rest of us who do not have so much influence. They often do things that are to their own advantage and to the disadvantage of the rest of us. They could not get away with that if they would not distract our attention from what they are doing. One tried and tested method to distract people is by fomenting an enemy, and in the case of the wars in the Middle East the fomented enemy of the West is the Islam fanatics/terrorists.
Not everyone believes that enemy is as dangerous as it is portrayed, but many people do, and that helps to create at least the illusion of public support for war.

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