Thursday, March 13, 2008

Islam and women education

One of the most controversial subject which Islams opponent propound is the women education in Islam, and they claim we have an essential rule in islam which says Moslem woman should stay at home, even for praying they shouldn’t go out and its better to pray at home.
If they shouldn’t go out then there is no need to learn knowledge and go to school or university, also staying at home doesn’t need any knowledge and any thing to be learned.
Because they can send there children to some special institute to be trained and grown up, also there husband can cook or bring every thing for them.
If so the woman doesn’t have any role in the home and society except that they should serve there husband all the time and try to satisfy them.
While in modern societies women do every thing in both inside home and out side and they are as same as man in all positions and jobs hence there countries are developed and power full in all areas.
Women are half of the population, if they don’t work it means that the incomes are very low also the rate of poverty is very much high and the condition of life is the worst
Finally we can conclude that Islamic countries do never progress or become developed.
What is the Moslems answer and there solution to these problem do they accept this point of view or not if not what they may say?

Is Islam against women education?

Firstly we should say that the rule that opponent support their self with and based there argument on it is not acceptable and not an Islamic law or rule.
We have a lots of verses in holy Qoran and many traditions that says learned is not equal with ignorant, and many others encourage the Moslems to learn knowledge even in the hardest and the worst condition.
There is no differences between male and female both of them are Moslem and the traditions include them similarly.
Ruther learning knowledge is an obligation in Islam there is a very fames tradition from holy prophet which tell all Moslems that they have to learn knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Secondly islam does never say Moslem women are not allowed to go out of home absolutely and unconditionally, they can go out by there husbands permission and if the situation or condition is suitable and secure, there husband definitely permit them.
It is because of their safety and being hale that the man and women shouldn’t go some where.
So we should make a secure society and city then our daughters and whiffs can go to the university,offices,banks and else where.
Making a secure places for women is our duty it means that Moslem first should make a suitable society and situation by training the people according to Islamic laws and orders.
Then their daughters and whiffs can do every thing out of home. They can do their jobs and study and …
Finally we can conclude that Islam is not against womens education and learning knowledge. It depend on situation and condition which Islam says.

Does Islam discriminate against women?

Why men and women don’t have the same right in Islam? they are different in many areas like inheritance ,witness , judge or adjudicate , blood money , and … while they are both human and there is no differences between them in humanity.
We believe that god is just then why he distinguish and treat them unjustly?
First we should define the justice then we would see werther he is just or unjust.
Justice means putting some thing in its proper places and give someone his deserving things or the thing which he is worthy of it , there for justice does never mean equality and being the same.
Secondly we believe that men and women are not the same rather they are different physically and bodily, if so we cant say man and woman should have the same right and equal, but there must be some differences. Because having the same right is contrary to justice.
Lets see what is the differences between them that there for they shouldn’t have the same right because its unjust.
One of the most important differences between them is different physical power and ability for doing some thing, we know the things that men can do women are not able to do specially hard works and jobs, women cant do them and if we want them to do that its cruel.
And also we know that doing these kinds of hard works need much energy and power so they should spend much while women doesn’t need these things, hence men should be paid much.
Also Islam give the responsibility of the family to man , and he should make a good and proper live for the family while woman can pay nothing even she cant milk the kids if milk can take the price from the man , and doing nothings in home like washing , cooking , cleaning and ….
There for if Islam makes some differences in their rights it is not prejudice and doesn’t mean that Islam prefer some of them I mean man or women, but the one who are more purified and believer is more valuable and worthy.
The differences are for the sake of there physical diversities and different sympathy, sensation and other things.
The creator knows better than any one else these differences, and he can say what is the mans right and what is the womens right and they shouldn’t consider equally and the same.
We as creature cant understand the exact reason of these commands and religious recepts
Because of our weakness, limitation and restriction in knowledge, power ….
These kinds of arguments and proofs are just the things that we may understand and realize by our intellect and mind.
While what is the real or factual reason we cant say any things except we can claim that these are the reasons that we can say.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Islamic customs limit women!

Like women in other developed countries Moslem females are demanding their rights.
They want to prove their selves as women that they are equal, that they could do the same job as men, that they could make a good life.
But in reality we see Moslem women in Islamic societies are not able to be in a good position as same as men.
For example: in many Islamic countries most of them are not educated, most of them don’t have professional careers, non of them are allowed to vote, in some cases if they can find a job they lost the family, because most of those women who have job they are not married, if some of them are educated Moslem men don’t want to marry a woman who is educated and is in the same level as them.
Educated women even found difficulties with prospective mother in law, because their husband usually took them to live with his family and his mother doesn’t know how to read well, it is very difficult.
Educated women also have other problems most if them when attend classes wearing the latest fashion of Paris and Rome, Moslem men don’t like to marry them till they do these and women don’t want to left and put away these kinds of fashions.

Is it correct if we say its because of Islamic laws that women cant make a good life. Cant vote, aren’t educated, don’t have a professional career, couldn’t get married and things like these…..?
I believe Islamic law is very good for the equality of woman but the people who interpret the Islamic law are men, It’s the serious problem because they try to do it in a way that is right for them not for women.
There for I think we need the sacrificial generation who must fight against these men who cant accept their rights and they should gain their rights.According to Islam Moslem must learn knowledge both men and women, women are free to choose their husband, women can do the jobs if the conditions are proper and suitable, they can vote and …. But unfortunately in some Moslem areas men don’t want to send their daughters or wives to school, university, cities for doing jobs, then they claim that it is because of Islam, while in many other Moslem countries the percentage of Moslem women student, office workers, bank clerks, doctors, nurses, teachers, professors, and … are in some case more than half. Rohulla rohani