Women in islqmic shari’ah

13-09-2011

Women in islqmic shari’ah, maulana wahiduddin khan, the islamic centre,1995           

                                     Basic attributes of men and women

The caracteristic of true believers, both men and women, are depicted in the Quran in the following world:

Men and women who have surrenderd

Beliving men and beliving women

Obedient men and obedient women

Truthful men and truthful women

Enduring men and enduring women

Humble men and humble women

Men and women who givr in charity

Men who fast and women who fast

Men and women who guard their chastity

Men and women who remember god in abundance for them god has prepared forgiveness and a great reward.

( hal.21)

Rule of islamic women

Most women become mothers, and the relationship between mother and child is of the utmost  importence, because the mother’s influence can be used for ends which maybe good or evil depending  upon the mother’s own proclivities. As a muslim course it is clearly her duty to use her maternal influence to bring her children up as moral beings.( hal.25)

Modern reserch

A deteiled article on the status of women in encyclopedia britannica includes a section on “scirntific studies of mail and female difference” here the author points out physical differences in the respective constitution of the male and female of the human species.

“with the respect to personality trits,” he writes “ men are caracteristized by greater agreciveness, dominance, and achivement motivation, women by greater dependency, a stronger social orientation, and the tendency to be more easily discouraged by failure than men.  ( hal. 40)