Female Liberation Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, gave women their freedom and dignity. Before Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, women everywhere were in bondage. Europeans wondered if women had a soul. They called women the Instrument of the Devil and Gateway to Hell. They denied women the right to inherit their parents’ or husbands’ property. In Arabia, fathers buried their own daughters alive. The Qur’an put an end to all this nonsense. It promulgated the principle of male-female parity in reward and punishment – worldly and other-worldly. And it made women partners of males in the inheritance process. Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, thus gave women their liberty and dignity. Qur’an, the book that Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, brought from God, does not have a chapter called “Arabs,” even though the desert-dwelling Arabs were its first addressees and the Qur’an was revealed in their language – Arabic. Nor does the Qur’an have a chapter called “The Men,” even though the whole world sang the praises of men all the time, and even though our own language until yesterday, through the 1970s, and even through the 1980s, shall we say, continued to be male-centric and male-gendered. And yet, the Qur’an has a chapter called “The Women” – Annisaa’ – going back 1400 years. Annisaa’ or “The Women” is the fourth chapter of the Qur’an and it is also one of the longest chapters of the Qur’an. This is the kind of glorious revolution that Prophet Muhammed, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, brought about in the status of women in the world.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:16:03 +0000
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