There has been nonexistent importance to be shed on the issues relating to the rights of women. World kept growing and the pertaining issues regarding women rights had been denied regularly before Islam. World turned into a miserable piece for the existence of woman. She faced more downs centuries ago then the ups in the history of this world. Every society had its share in victimization of this elegant living being that could not fight back and attain rights for her. There has been series of disasters linked to the existence of woman which broke her morally, socially and physically and victimized her completely.
Before the intrusion of Islam into the lives, people had been mercilessly insulting the existence of woman. Woman was treated like animals before Islam. Greeks believed about woman that she is as poisonous as any other poisonous thing. Moreover, woman was treated like a business tool which could be sold at any point.
Romans had a worst faith about woman, considering woman less privileged and a body without soul. There was no importance of woman’s sentiments near them. They would pour boiling oil to their bodies and drag them with running horses to torture them.
Chinese believed that a woman is a curse that vanishes the good deeds of a man. Chinese man had the right and authority to bury his wife alive. If a man dies his wife was also buried with him or considered a curse.
Indians believed that woman was the worst of all creatures. She’s like a death, fire and hell. She is to be cursed and killed when her husband dies. She wasn’t allowed to wear ornaments and gold or any color dress other than white once she is widowed and eventually she is cursed and killed.
In Persia, believe that circulated was that woman is ruled by her husband and he can make her die according to his own will.
Jews considered her evil and called her impure as she faces the cycles – she is blamed for all the temptations and permissible by her father to sell her.
Christians too had many wrong beliefs about her. Called her soul of an animal and if it’s the soul of a human being than it was believed to be much lesser than the man. She was considered lower and lesser than man and no rights were given to her.
Arabs before Islam used to bury their daughters alive or killed them at the time of birth.
It has been concluded that how woman was treated before Islam, she was considered curse, impure, soulless, victimized, lesser and evil by different societies of the world. Her emotions and sentiments were considered vague and blurry. She had no right to live and over the years the world became a man’s world to be dominated by one pillar of the society. Many series of incidents also shed light on the physical harassment of woman; she was tortured and mercilessly deprived of social, cultural, moral and economic privileges. Before Islam the world was a darker place where woman was its only victim.
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