Muslim women
Unlike the women belonging to other religions, Muslim women enjoy a giant respect and dignity. Muslim women carry these distinguished status since their birth as these have been bestowed to them by the Islam. Islam emphasizes a lot on women’s importance, and there are so many rights which women enjoy being Muslims. In addition, Muslim women have always been very responsible and proving themselves to be not less worthwhile than men.
In accordance with the Islam, women and men carry equivalent importance. As the almighty Allah says in the holy Quran, according to which ‘among Allah’s signs one is that from yourself He created companion for you that may bring about the peace and rest of mind for you, and mercy and love between you was predestined by Him. Certainly, for reflective people, herein in fact are signs.’
Similarly, according to the sayings of the last Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him), Muslim women have been given enormous importance. According to the Prophet, treating the wife with kindness indicates the sign of perfect faith. As he said that ‘amongst believers the most perfect in Iman (faith ) is that person who, in the kindest and manners, is most excellent to his spouse.’
Unfortunately in western media and societies, a lot of misconceptions are propagated against Islam that it suppresses the women’s rights. They make such allegations that Muslim women are treated badly and they are not less inferior than the animals in Islam. But in fact, all these misconceptions are baseless and thus do not have any actual evidence. A couple of reasons can be pointed out which lead the western media and societies to make such allegations. One of them is due to their complete ignorance about the true Islamic teachings. Second, they are likely to do so due to the prejudice they have against Islam. Third, unluckily, even in Muslim societies many social practices are performed which do not adhere to Islam. As a result, it gives a bad picture of the Islamic stance on Muslim women to the world.
In fact in Islam, Muslim women are not deprived at all of the rights which are enjoyed by the men. Islam provides the women equal rights. Unlike the other parts of the world where other religions prevail, women in Muslim societies are guaranteed the inheritance rights as well by the Islam. Moreover, Muslim women enjoy certain marriage rights, mother’s rights, daughter rights and so on. Thus, Muslim women being mothers, daughters, wives, sisters or even just being common women are blessed with paramount status and importance by the Islam.
Muslim women play a very important part in the societies as well. The first person who embraced Islam was a woman, Khadija (the Prophet Muhammad’s first wife). Hazrat Ayesha (R.A) another Prophet’s wife, enjoys a dominant status in Islam due to her being an Islamic scholar and a great Hadith source. Likewise, many Muslim women have ruled their respective countries in the past, like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Turkey.
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