Let us go further and analyze the social rights of a women in Islam.:

Let us go further and analyze the social rights of a
women in Islam.:

{*Broadly it can be categorized into four
Sub-heading :Social rights given to a
Daughter, to a wife, to a mother and to a sister.*}
Coming to the social rights given in Islam, to a
daughter
- Islam prohibits, female infanticide –
The killing of female children is forbidden in Islam
Allah Says in the Qur’an:
‘When the female child is buried alive and when
she
Questions you, for what crime was she killed’.
{Al-Qur’an Ch. 81, Verse No. 8 and 9,}
Not only female infanticide has been prohibited,
All sorts of infanticides has been prohibited in
Islam,
Whether it be a male child or a female child.
‘Kill not your children for want of
Sustenance for it is Allah that will
Provide sustenance for you and for children’
{Al-Qur’an Ch.6, Verse No.151}
‘Kill not your children for want of
Sustenance, for it is Allah that will
Provide sustenance to you and your
Children, for killing of children is a major sin’.
{Al-Qur’an Ch.17 Verse No.31}
In the pre-Islamic Arabia, whenever a female
Child was born mostly she was buried alive.
Alhamdullillah, after the spread of Islam this
Evil practices have been discontinued.
But unfortunately it still continues in our country
India
- According to a BBC report, in the program
Assignment the title of which was ‘Let Her Die’,
There was a British reporter by the name of
Emily Beckenen, who came all the way
From Britain to India to give us the statistics of
The female infanticide.
In that program, it gives the statistics, that every
Day more than 3,000 fetuses are being aborted
On being identified that they are females
If you multiply this figure by the number of days,
That is multiplied by 365, you get a figure of
More than one million female fetuses are being
Aborted every year in our country.
And there are big hoarding and posters in states
LikeTamilNadu and Rajasthan, which says
Spend 500 Rupees and save 5 lakh Rupees
What does it mean? - That spend Rupees
500 on medical examination like Aminocententus or
Ultra Sonography, and identify that the child the
Mother is carrying If it is a female you can abort it
and
You’ll save 5 lakh Rupees - How? The couple of
lakhs
You spend on upbringing her and the remaining
lakhs of Rupees you spend on giving dowry.
According to the report of the government
Hospital of Tamil Nadu – ‘out of every 10
Female children that are born, four are put to
death’
- No wonder the female population in India is less
than the male population
Female infanticide was continuing in our country
Since centuries - If you analyze the statistics;
The1901 census, for every 1000 males there were
972 females
According to the 1981 statistics and census,
it tells you for every 1000 males you have 934
females
And the latest statistics of 1991 tells you that for
Every 1000 males you have 927 females,
{*This year 2011 says {*very 1000 males you have
914 females*}
You can analyze that the female ratio is dropping
Every year - And since science and medicine has
advanced,
It has helped in this evil practice Just because
Islam
Tells you that you should not kill any children
Whether it is be male or female will you call these
Rights in Islam as modernizing or outdated?
Islam not only prohibits killing of infant children,
It also prohibits, and it rebukes you on rejoicing
On the birth of a male child and you getting
Saddened on the news of a female child.
‘When news is brought to one of them
Of a birth of a female child his face darkens
And is filled with inward grief’.
He hides himself in shame from his people
Because of the news he has received.
Should he let her live in suffering or
Should he bury her in dust - Ah! what a
Evil choice they have
{Al- Qur’an Ch.16, Verse No.58 & 59}
Qur’an not only prohibits female infanticide,
It rebukes at the thought of you rejoicing at
The birth of a male child and getting saddened
At the birth of a female child In Islam,
Adaughter should be brought up correctly
The Prophet (may peace be upon him) he said;
‘Anyone who brings up two daughters
Properly, they will be like this to me on
The day of judgment’ – Means, ‘will be
Very close to me on the day of judgment’
{‘Ahmed ibniHambalvol 4 Hadith 2104}
‘Anyone who up brings 2 daughters
Properly and takes good care and brings
Them up with love and affection, they will
Enter Paradise’
{HADITH}
In Islam, there should be no partiality in
Upbringing of the daughters or the son.
According to a Hadith, of our beloved Prophet it
said that,
‘In the presence of the Prophet, once a man
Kissed his son and placed him on his lap but
Did not do the same to his daughter.
The Prophet immediately objected and
Said that you are unjust - You should have even
Kissed your daughter and placed her on the other
lap’.
{HADITH}
Prophet Muhammed (May peace be upon him)
He did not only speak about justice, he also
practiced it.
Let us analyze, the rights of a wife in Islam.
All the previous civilizations, they have considered
the women to be an ‘instrument of the devil’.
The Qur’an refers to the women as ‘Mohsana’,
that is a ‘fortress against the devil’.
And if a woman, who’s good, marries a man,
she prevents him from going on the
wrong path and keeps him on the ‘Siratulmustake
em’
– that is the correct path.
There’s a Hadith in which Prophet Muhammed
(may peace be upon him) he said that,
‘there is no monasticism in Islam’ .
‘the Prophet ordained the young men,
all those who have the means to marry,
they should marry - For it will help them
to lower their gaze and guard their modesty.
{SahihBukhari, Volume No. 7, Ch. No. 3 Hadith No
4}
‘Any one who marries completes
half his deen’.( islam)
{Hadith narrated by ‘Anas’}
May be somebody thinks, that ‘does
it imply that if I marry twice I will be
completing my full deen?’
The person misunderstood the message of the
Prophet.
When the Prophet said that ‘When you
marry you complete half your deen’ –
It means that when you marry it shields
you from promiscuity, it shields you
from fornication, it shields you from
homosexuality, which lead to half the sin in this
world
Only when you marry, do you have
opportunity to become husband or a wife –
Only when you marry do you have opportunity
to become a father or a mother
And the duties of the mother and the
father and that of a husband and wife
are very important in Islam
So it makes no difference whether a man
marries once twice or thrice or four times –
He yet completes only half his deen.
2)‘We have put love into the hearts
OF the husband and the wife
‘And amongst our signs We have created
for you mates or companions, so that you
may dwell in them in tranquillity and we
have put love and mercy between your hearts’.
{Al-Qur’an Ch. 30, Verse No. 21}
marriage is considered as a misaq,
a sacred agreement, a sacred contract.
{Al-Qur’an Ch.4, Verse No.21,}
‘You are prohibited to inherit women
against their will’
{Al-Qur’an Ch.4, Verse No.19}
- Means, to marry the permission of both the
parties are required.
‘It is compulsory that the man and women both
should agree to marry No one - not even the father
can force their daughter to marry against her
wishes.’
Hadith in SahihBukhari, Volume No. 7, Ch. No. 43,
Hadith No. 69,
which says ‘that a lady she was forced
by her father to marry against her wishes’
- And she went to the Prophet and the Prophet
Invalidated the marriage’
{Hadith in SahihBukhari, Volume No. 7, Ch. No. 43,
Hadith No. 69}
{Hadith in SahihBukhari, Vol No. 7, Ch. No. 68,
Hadith No. 649}
‘that a daughter was forced by her father
to get married - And when the daughter
approached the Prophet, the Prophet said
you can either continue, or if you wish you
can invalidate the marriage.
{Hadith in Ibn-e-Humbal, Hadith No. 2469}
That means, the consent of both the male
and the female is required
In Islam, a women is considered as a
homemaker - She is not considered as a
housewife, because she is not married to the house
Many people use terminology, without
understanding what it means – ‘Housewife’
means ‘your the wife of the house’
So I believe, from now onwards the
sisters would prefer calling themselves
‘homemakers’, than ‘house wives’, if they
are occupied more in the home.
In Islam, a woman, she is not married to
a master that she should be treated like a
slave - She is married to it is equal.
‘the most perfect of the believers
are those that are best in character
and behavior, and those that are best
to their family and their wives’.
{Ibn-Hambal-HadithNo736-739}
3)Islam gives equal rights to the man and woman
except leadership in the family.
- It says that ‘the women have been
given rights similar against them on
equitable terms but the men have a degree higher’
{Al-Qur’an Ch.2,VerseNo.228.}
most of the Muslims have misunderstood this
verse, when it says ‘a men have a degree higher’ –
As I said we should analyze the Qur’an as a whole.
‘The men are the protectors and maintainers
of the women, for Allah (SWT) has given one of
them more strength than the other and they give
them their means’
{Al-Qur’an Ch. 4, Verse No.34}
People say the word ‘Kawwam’ means,
‘one degree higher in superiority’ - But actually
the word ‘Kawwam’ comes from the root word
‘Ikamah’
‘Ikamah’ means for example ‘when you give
the Ikamah before prayers - You stand up’.
So ‘Ikamah’ means to standup - so
the word ‘Kawwam’ means one degree
higher in responsibility, not one degree
higher in superiority.
Even if you read the commentary of ‘Ibne-Kathir’ –
He says that the word ‘Kawwam’ means one
degree
higher in responsibility, not one degree higher in
superiority.
And this responsibility, should be carried out by
mutual consent of both husband and wife.
‘Your wives are your garments,
and you are their garments’
{Al-Qur’an Ch.2, Verse No.187}
What’s the objective of garments –
It is used to conceal and to beautify
The husband and wife, should
conceal each others faults, and
they should beautify each other –
Its a relationship of hands and gloves
The Qur’an‘even if you do not like your wife, you
should treat her kindly’.
‘Treat your wives on a footing of equity
and kindness even if you dislike her –
For you may be disliking a thing for
which Allah has made good for you’.
{Ch.4, Verse No.19}
Even if you dislike your wife you have to
treat her kindly and with equity
Just because the rights of a wife are equal
to those of the husband in Islam, will you
call such rights in Islam as modernizing or
outdated?
Let us analyze the rights of a Mother
The only thing above respect to Mother,
is the worship of Allah (SWT)
‘Allah has ordained for you
- that Allah has ordained for you,
that you worship none but Him,
and to be kind to our parents’
And if any one or both of them reach
old age do not say a word of contempt
or repel them but address them with
honour, and speak to them with kindness,
and lower your wing of humility and
pray to Allah (SWT) -‘My Lord, bless
them as they have cherished me in childhood’
{Al-Qur’an Ch.17, Verse No.28-29}
‘Respect the womb that bore you’.
{Al-Qur’anCh. No.4,Verse No.1}
‘You have to be kind to your parents’.
{Al-Qur’an Ch.6, Verse No.151}
‘We have enjoined on the human
beings to be kind to his parents
In travail upon travail, did their
mother bore them and in years twain
was their weaning’
{Al-Qur’an Ch.31, Verse No.14}
A similar thing is repeated again in
‘We have enjoined on the human
beings to be kind to his parents
In pain did their mother bore them
and in pain did she give them birth’.
{Al-Qur’an Ch.46, Verse No.15}
2)According to a Hadith related in ‘Ahmed’, as well
as in ‘Ibn-e-Majah’–
‘Paradise lies at the feet of the mother’.
{Sunnaibn-e-Majahch 6,Hadith 3106}
That does not mean that if my mother is
walking on the road and if she steps on
muck and filth - that thing becomes Paradise
It means that after you fulfill your basic duties,
if you respect your mother, if you are kind to
your mother, If you are honorable to your
Mother, you will inshaallah enter into the Paradise.
a man asked the Prophet…
‘Who requires the maximum love
and respect and my companionship in this world?
The Prophet replied – ‘your mother’
‘Who is next’? – ‘your mother’
‘Who is next?’ – ‘your mother’
The man asked for the fourth time, - ‘Who is next’
The Prophet replied ‘your father’
{SahihBukhari in Vol 8, Ch. No. 2 Hadith No. 2}
{As well in Sahih Muslim}
75% of the love and respect goes to the Mother,
and 25% of the love and respect goes to the father
Three fourth of the better part of the
love and respect goes to the mother –
One fourth of the remaining part of the
love and respect goes to the father
In short,
the gold medal goes to the mother,
the silver medal goes to the mother,
the bronze medal goes to the mother
and the father may be he gets the consolation
prize.
such honour and respect , protection, love &
companionship
has been given to Women in islam.
will you call such rights in Islam as modernizing or
outdated?.
Let us analyze the rights of the sisters in Islam
‘The men and the women they are
maintainers and supporters of each other’
{Al-Qur’an Surah Tawbah, Ch. 9, Verse No.71}
The word ‘Auliya’ here means ‘supporters’ and
‘maintainers’ - they are sup¬porters and
maintainers of each other
In short they are brothers and sisters
unto each other, unless otherwise
Prophet Muhammed (may peace be upon him) he
said,
‘The women are the ‘Shakat’ -‘Shakat’ means
sister’
It also means ‘half’, as humankind has
been divided into two halves - men and women

- It refers to as ‘half’, also as ‘sisters’