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The status of woman in Islam is not a problem. The attitude of the Qur’an and the early Muslims bear witness to the fact that woman is, at least, as vital to life as man himself, and that she is not inferior to him nor is she one of the lower species. Had it not been for the west, this question would have never risen among the Muslims. The status of woman was taken for granted to be equal to that of man. It was a matter of fact and no one then, considered it a problem.

In order to understand what Islam has established for woman, there is no need to deplore her plight in the pre-Islamic era or in the modern world of today. Islam has given woman rights and privileges, which she has never enjoyed under other religious or constitutional systems. This can be understood when the matter is studied as a whole in a comparative manner, rather than partially. The rights and responsibilities of a woman are equal to those of a man but they are not necessarily identical with them. Equality and sameness are two quite different things. This difference is understandable because man and woman are not identical but they are created equals. With this distinction in mind, There is no problem. It is almost impossible to find even two identical men or women.

This distinction between equality and sameness is of paramount importance. Equality is desirable, just and fair; but sameness is not. People are not created identical but they are created equals. With this distinction in mind, there is no room to imagine that woman is inferior to man. There is no ground to assume that she is less important than he just because her rights are not identically the same as his. Had her status been identical with his, she would have been simply a duplicate of him, which she is not. The fact that Islam gives her equal rights - but not identical - shows that it takes her into due consideration, acknowledges her, and recognizes her independent personality.

It is not the tone of Islam that brands woman as the product of the devil or the seed of evil. Nor does the Qur’an place man as the dominant lord of woman who has no choice but to surrender to his dominance. Nor was it Islam that introduced the question of whether or not woman has any soul in her. Never in the history of Islam has any Muslim doubted the human status of woman or her possession of soul and other fine spiritual qualities. Unlike the west, Islam does not blame Eve alone for the ‘original sin.’ The Qur’an makes it very clear that both Adam and Eve were tempted; that they both sinned; that Allah’s pardon was granted to both after their repentance; and that Allah addressed them jointly. Allah Almighty says:

(And We said: O Adam! Dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden, and eat ye freely (of the fruits) thereof where ye will; but come not nigh this tree lest ye become wrongdoers. But Satan caused them to deflect therefrom and expelled them from the (happy) state in which they were; and We said: Fall down, one of you a foe unto the other! There shall be for you on earth a habitation and provision for a tune. Then Adam received from his Lord words (of revelation), and He relented toward him. Lo! He is the Relenting the Merciful. We said: Go down, all of you, from hence; but verily there cometh unto you from Me a guidance; and whoso followeth My guidance, there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.) (Al-Baqarah 2: 36-38)

In fact the Qur’an gives the impression that Adam was more to blame for that First Sin from which emerged prejudice against woman and suspicion of her deeds. But Islam does not justify such prejudice or suspicion because both Adam and Eve were equally in error, and if we are to blame Eve we should blame Adam just as much.

Look at the hypocrisy of the west. They say islam is unfair towards women and they blame eve for the ‘original sin’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feminist groups say that men and women are identical. O.k. i have a question? Wife gives birth to a child so what is she going to do with the second? Tell her husband to give birth?

Sisters, stop being brainwashed by a hypocrite west where women are treated like sex objects. Their women are naked 24 hours of the day just like an animal is. Where does there equality go when daughters are in skimpy tops and miniskirts in front of their brothers and father everyday.

Where is their equality when thousands of teenage girls are committing suicide in the west because they are not thin enough. (Thin enough to do what? Wear skimpy clothing?)

Where is equality when teen pregnancies, abortions, rapes and AIDS are at an all time high.

Allah gave all the past nations one azab but Allah gave the people of Prophet Lut 5 Azab because they had lost their haya. This is something we should really think about.

(by the way, did you know that the majority of converts to islam are women from the U.K. and the U.S. who would rather be ‘opressed’ by a burqa than by a mini-skirt)

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