Women in Islam

Women In Islam (Immam Abu Hanifa[rahimullah])
Talking about women rights become popular and common talk nowadays, equality between men and women is the main topic and in a conference held in Maryland were a Muslim women misrepresent us accusing Muslim of been ignorant and forcing women wear Hajab and she said that Islam was good for the old days and all we need today is to believe in God and that in our hearts.
Islam encourages women to participate in the general life activities along side the men so long they adhere to the Islamic Law restrictions and requirements. Allah says in the Holy Quran
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what could be translated as: �The Believers, men and women, are protectors one of another: they enjoin what is just, and forbid what is evil: they observe regular prayers, practice regular charity, and obey Allah and His Messenger. On them will Allah pour His mercy: for Allah is Exalted in power, Wise.�
Allah also says in the Holy Quran
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what could be translated as: �The Hypocrites, men and women, (have an understanding) with each other: They enjoin evil, and forbid what is just, and are close with their hands. They have forgotten Allah. so He hath forgotten them. Verily the Hypocrites are rebellious and perverse.�
In Islam, everyone�s main role is to enjoin good and establish the Deen. The Prophet (may Allah�s peace be upon him) said:
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�Women are the sisters of men�.
Allah says in the Holy Quran what could be translated as: �And their Lord has accepted of them, and answered them: "Never will I allow to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female: you are members, one of another;
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Men cannot do without women and women cannot do without men. Therefore, in Islam, there is no clash between men and women as it was determined by some philosophers and religions. In Islam, women carry out their work and duties as men do. The first voice that was raised in support of Prophet Mohammed was not a man�s voice. It was a woman�s voice; his wife Khadijah.
First blood that was shed in the way of Allah was not a man�s blood, but it was a woman�s blood; Suma�ia the mother of Ammar and the wife of Yasser.
Women participated in the building of the Islamic civilization. Asma�a the daughter of Omair migrated with her husband to Abyssinia. There are many women who pledged commitment and loyalty to Allah and to the Prophet Mohamed (pbuh)
Some women also participated after the hijrah, in the battles with the Prophet to defend Islam, as was mentioned in Albukhari Book in the Chapter of the �Jihad of Women� where he mentioned the names of the Mothers of the Faithful.
Tens of the suras in the Quran talk about women and even some Surah are named after women such as �Mariam� and �Al Nisa�a�.
Once, the Companions saw Omar talking with a woman who kept him for a long time. When they objected, he said: �this the woman to whom Allah listened from the seventh heaven, shouldn�t I listen to her also.
In Sura Al Mumtahina, Allah talks about how women pledged faithfulness to the Prophet.
Aesha was a mong the best scholars in her time she narrated more than one thousand hadeeth of the prophet (pbuh)
Women had a principal role in Islamic life until the Islamic Civilization started to decline and so did the woman�s role in the Islamic life and society. False Hadeeth�s started to spread out such as: �Do not teach them (women) how to write� or �consult them and do the opposite� or �Burying little girls is righteous�
In fact, some radical fatwas spread out in the Moslem societies, which forbade women from participating in prayer in Allah�s houses. Therefore, women had to live in ignorance. In some Islamic Countries, you could not even find anyone who could teach women. They said that only the husband could teach his wife. However, if the husband is ignorant, how could he then teach anyone?
Some people attribute to Abu Hanifa a Fatwa, which forbids women from going to the mosque, yet Abu Hanifa is the one who permitted women to work as judges except in criminal cases. He also permitted a women to marry herself to one who is her equal.
Abo Hanifa said that it is not require for the wife to serve her husband .
so why they took the first fatwa and ignore the other one .
Fatwa changes as time, place and situation change. Let us fear Allah in our fatwa and let us realize that fatwa is based on its circumstances. We need to differentiate between the specific fatwa and the general fatwa. We also need to distinguish between Fiqh and its basic principles.
Women in the time of the Prophet used to go daily to the mosque to perform the five prayers.
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�Do not forbid the female servants of Allah from attending the houses of Allah�
Some men are even ashamed to mention their wives names as if it is shameful to do so.
�� ��� ��� ��� �������� The woman�s issue has been lost between extreme neglect and extreme exaggeration. Some have become very soft with women that you would find those women leaving their homes with barely any clothes to cover their bodies and sitting with men without any shame, and some have become extremely strict with women without any justification. One of the philosophers said:
������ �� �� �� ��� �women are unavoidable evil�. Some people even relate this saying incorrectly to Ali may Allah be pleased with him.
Some people say that women were created for men. This saying is absolute falsehood. Women were created for themselves and to worship Allah alone.
The opinion of the majority of the Imams (Al Jomhur) is that wives serve their husbands as a favor; not as an obligation.
This extreme neglect and extreme exaggeration is not part of our religion.
Some people consider a righteous woman is the one who does not leave her home at all. They forgot that this was the punishment of the women who committed adultery before the Sharia punishments were decreed.
They also said that women are half of the society, which is generally correct numerically. But she is the half that influences negatively or positively the other half, be it her husband, her son, her brother etc.
Islam does not object to women�s participation along the men�s side but according to the Islamic teachings and provisions. We are a Nation, which was given a divine law to discipline it and put its affairs in order. Our reference is always Islam and its laws; not the United Nations Women�s rights documents or the International Women�s Union or anything else.
Let us protect our women from the poisoned and so-called �Women�s Rights� and let us allow them to have their Allah given rights in order to establish the right Deen and Donia side by side with men.
Women In Islam
Talking about women rights become popular and common talk nowadays, equality between men and women is the main topic and in a conference held in Maryland were a Muslim women misrepresent us accusing Muslim of been ignorant and forcing women wear Hajab and she said that Islam was good for the old days and all we need today is to believe in God and that in our hearts.
Islam encourages women to participate in the general life activities along side the men so long they adhere to the Islamic Law restrictions and requirements. Allah says in the Holy Quran
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what could be translated as: �The Believers, men and women, are protectors one of another: they enjoin what is just, and forbid what is evil: they observe regular prayers, practice regular charity, and obey Allah and His Messenger. On them will Allah pour His mercy: for Allah is Exalted in power, Wise.�
Allah also says in the Holy Quran
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what could be translated as: �The Hypocrites, men and women, (have an understanding) with each other: They enjoin evil, and forbid what is just, and are close with their hands. They have forgotten Allah. so He hath forgotten them. Verily the Hypocrites are rebellious and perverse.�
In Islam, everyone�s main role is to enjoin good and establish the Deen. The Prophet (may Allah�s peace be upon him) said:
��� ������ ��� ���� ���� ����(���� ������ ����� ������)�Women are the sisters of men�.
Allah says in the Holy Quran what could be translated as: �And their Lord has accepted of them, and answered them: "Never will I allow to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female: you are members, one of another;
��� ���� ����� (������� ��� ���� ��� �� ���� ��� ���� ���� �� ��� �� ���� ����� �� ���)
Men cannot do without women and women cannot do without men. Therefore, in Islam, there is no clash between men and women as it was determined by some philosophers and religions. In Islam, women carry out their work and duties as men do. The first voice that was raised in support of Prophet Mohammed was not a man�s voice. It was a woman�s voice; his wife Khadijah.
First blood that was shed in the way of Allah was not a man�s blood, but it was a woman�s blood; Suma�ia the mother of Ammar and the wife of Yasser.
Women participated in the building of the Islamic civilization. Asma�a the daughter of Omair migrated with her husband to Abyssinia. There are many women who pledged commitment and loyalty to Allah and to the Prophet Mohamed (pbuh)
Some women also participated after the hijrah, in the battles with the Prophet to defend Islam, as was mentioned in Albukhari Book in the Chapter of the �Jihad of Women� where he mentioned the names of the Mothers of the Faithful.
Tens of the suras in the Quran talk about women and even some Surah are named after women such as �Mariam� and �Al Nisa�a�.
Once, the Companions saw Omar talking with a woman who kept him for a long time. When they objected, he said: �this the woman to whom Allah listened from the seventh heaven, shouldn�t I listen to her also.
In Sura Al Mumtahina, Allah talks about how women pledged faithfulness to the Prophet.
Aesha was a mong the best scholars in her time she narrated more than one thousand hadeeth of the prophet (pbuh)
Women had a principal role in Islamic life until the Islamic Civilization started to decline and so did the woman�s role in the Islamic life and society. False Hadeeth�s started to spread out such as: �Do not teach them (women) how to write� or �consult them and do the opposite� or �Burying little girls is righteous�
In fact, some radical fatwas spread out in the Moslem societies, which forbade women from participating in prayer in Allah�s houses. Therefore, women had to live in ignorance. In some Islamic Countries, you could not even find anyone who could teach women. They said that only the husband could teach his wife. However, if the husband is ignorant, how could he then teach anyone?
Some people attribute to Abu Hanifa a Fatwa, which forbids women from going to the mosque, yet Abu Hanifa is the one who permitted women to work as judges except in criminal cases. He also permitted a women to marry herself to one who is her equal.
Abo Hanifa said that it is not require for the wife to serve her husband .
so why they took the first fatwa and ignore the other one .
Fatwa changes as time, place and situation change. Let us fear Allah in our fatwa and let us realize that fatwa is based on its circumstances. We need to differentiate between the specific fatwa and the general fatwa. We also need to distinguish between Fiqh and its basic principles.
Women in the time of the Prophet used to go daily to the mosque to perform the five prayers.
��� ������ ��� ���� ���� ���� (�� ������ ���� ���� �� ���� ����) �Do not forbid the female servants of Allah from attending the houses of Allah�
Some men are even ashamed to mention their wives names as if it is shameful to do so.
�� ��� ��� ��� �������� The woman�s issue has been lost between extreme neglect and extreme exaggeration. Some have become very soft with women that you would find those women leaving their homes with barely any clothes to cover their bodies and sitting with men without any shame, and some have become extremely strict with women without any justification. One of the philosophers said:
������ �� �� �� ���
�women are unavoidable evil�. Some people even relate this saying incorrectly to Ali may Allah be pleased with him.
Some people say that women were created for men. This saying is absolute falsehood. Women were created for themselves and to worship Allah alone.
The opinion of the majority of the Imams (Al Jomhur) is that wives serve their husbands as a favor; not as an obligation.
This extreme neglect and extreme exaggeration is not part of our religion.
Some people consider a righteous woman is the one who does not leave her home at all. They forgot that this was the punishment of the women who committed adultery before the Sharia punishments were decreed.
They also said that women are half of the society, which is generally correct numerically. But she is the half that influences negatively or positively the other half, be it her husband, her son, her brother etc.
Islam does not object to women�s participation along the men�s side but according to the Islamic teachings and provisions. We are a Nation, which was given a divine law to discipline it and put its affairs in order. Our reference is always Islam and its laws; not the United Nations Women�s rights documents or the International Women�s Union or anything else.
Let us protect our women from the poisoned and so-called �Women�s Rights� and let us allow them to have their Allah given rights in order to establish the right Deen and Donia side by side with men.