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The problem is twofold: First of all, those people who make such
objections usually only have a very superficial knowledge of what the
true teachings of Islam, and secondly, they do not realize what The
.Bible requires of all believing women
I was once passing through Canada with my parent's in law and their
family. As we walked down the street a Canadian Christian girl (in
her late teens to early twenties) passed by us with a group of her
friends. She looked at my mother in law who was dressed in modest
clothing and had a large scarf wrapped around her head such that
only her face was showing. She then stopped my mother in law and
said words to the effect of: "Why do you allow your men to oppress
".?you?. Why do you wear these clothes
I decided to move a reasonable distance away and let her handle this
situation herself. My mother in law was very happy to answer this
girl's question and went on to explain to her about our religion and
customs and how we prefer to dress modestly, and that Allah
Almighty requires us to do this. However, this was not the answer
this girl was looking for so she retorted: "Thanks for sharing!," then
.spun around and stormed off
Now, in my home country, our elders are quite used to being highly
respected by those who are younger than them and being served by
them. For this reason, it did not even occur to my mother in law that
this question could have been anything more than a young girl
respectfully asking an innocent question of a trusted elder, and I
hated to tell her otherwise. I would have hated for her to leave
Canada thinking that all Canadians or all Christians speak this way
to their elders since I know that this is not the true case. However,
.this episode did indeed sadden me
Many non-Muslims feel sorry for any Muslim women they see
adorned in their modest clothing. They feel that they are deprived
the freedom to roam around in more scant and revealing clothing.
Anyone who lives in a manner other that which they have become
accustomed to is seen by them to be oppressed and forced to live in
this manner. There are certain tribes in the Amazon jungle, in
Australia, and in Africa which have become accustomed to walking
around in a simple g-string around their waist. What would the
people of the West say if these people were to condemn the Western
habit of "forcing" their women to wear "excessive amounts of
clothing" and to demand that all women in the west immediately stop
wearing anything but the simplest g-string around their waist? What
if they were to say that the Western society should immediately stop
unjustly persecuting their women and preventing them from freely
roaming the streets wearing only a pair of socks? They would say
that the people making these demands have no morals or shame.
.Philosophers would have a field day with such a question
We can indeed find this lesson in the story of Adam. In the Islamic
version of the story of Adam (slightly different than that of
Judaism/Christianity), Adam and Eve were created by God,
educated, clothed, and then allowed to inhabit heaven. They were
told by God that they could have anything their hearts desired except
they must not eat from the tree. Out of envy, the devil encouraged
them to eat from the tree and told them that it's fruit would make
them angles or immortal. They ate from the tree and immediately,
their bodies were revealed to one another, so they took to scooping up
the leaves off the trees in order to cover themselves. This is when
Allah sent them down to earth. What mankind learned from this
lesson is that just because a person does not know the wisdom behind
a command of God, and others tell him to disobey it, then if they do
not abide by it, by the time the reason for the command is made
.apparent to them it may be too late
Well then, what is the Biblical view on these matters? Actually, even
in this day and age there still remains traces in Christianity of the
common ancestry with Islam with regard to the accepted norms of
modest dress for Christian women as ordained by her Creator. In the
above figure we have an example of the sort of dress codes observed
by Christian nuns. We are strangely amazed to find that it is almost
the striking similarity it bears to the sort of outfit which most Muslim
women wear. Why is that? Well, although there are quite a number
of very pronounced differences between Biblical and Qur'anic laws
:in this regard, let us start with the Biblical view
Genesis 3:12-16 "And the man (Adam) said, The woman (Eve) whom
thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And
the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast
done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the
field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days
of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply
thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth
children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule
".over thee
Ecclesiastics 7:26-28 "And I find more bitter than death the woman
who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will
ensnare....while I was still searching but not finding, I found one
upright man among a thousand but not one upright woman among
."them all
Adam and Eve were not equal in sin. Adam was not deceived but Eve
.was
Women are commanded to be under obedience to men. God ordained
that men shall for all time rule over women
Women must keep silent in Churches. It is shameful for them to open
their mouths therein. If they have a question they should ask their
husbands before going to church and then their husbands will ask for
.them in the church
.A woman should neither pray nor profess with her head uncovered
If a woman prays with her head uncovered then she might as well
.shave her head
Man was created in the image and glory of God, and Woman was
.created in the glory of Man, thus Man must have power over her
Any woman who delivers a male baby shall be unclean for one week.
But any woman who delivers a female baby shall be unclean for
TWO weeks. Thus, females make their mothers DOUBLY unclean as
.compared to males
While it is possible to find one upright man in every thousand, it is
impossible to find even one single upright woman in every thousand
Woman is a snare, her heart is a trap, and her hands are chains. The
.man who pleases God will escape her, but she will ensnare the sinner
Woman is the instrument which the devil uses to gain possession of"
(our souls" (St. Cyprian
Woman is the fountain of the arm of the devil, her voice is the"
(hissing of the serpent" (St. Anthony
St. Tertullian, while he was talking to his 'best beloved sisters' in the
faith, he said, "Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The
sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must of
necessity live too. You are the Devil's gateway: You are the unsealer
of the forbidden tree: You are the first deserter of the divine law:
You are she who persuaded him whom the devil wasn't valiant
enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God's image, man." Once
again, St. Augustine wrote to a friend, "What is the difference
whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we
must beware of in any woman." Centuries later, St. Thomas Aquinas
still considered women as defective, "As regards the individual
nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in
the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the
masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from a defect in
the active force or from some material indisposition, or even from
some external influence." (all these quotations can be found in Karen
Armstrong's book, The Gospel According to Woman, London: Elm
Tree Books, 1986, pp. 52-62. See also Nancy van Vuuren, The
Subversion of Women as Practiced by Churches, Witch-Hunters, and
(.Other Sexists Philadelphia: Westminster Press pp.28-30
According to the Jewish Talmud, "women are exempt from the study
of the Torah." In the first century C.E., Rabbi Eliezer said: "If any
man teaches his daughter Torah it is as though he taught her
lechery" (Leonard J. Swidler, Women in Judaism: the Status of
Women in Formative Judaism, Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press,
(1976, pp. 83-93
These are only a small sampling. For many more similar quotations
please obtain a copy of the 70 page book "Women in Islam Versus
Women in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition: The Myth & The
Reality," By Dr. Sherif Abdel Azeem, World Assembly of Muslim
.Youth
Deuteronomy 22:28-30
One must ask a simple question here, who is really punished, the man
who raped the woman or the woman who was raped? What is to
prevent someone from finding the best looking woman in town,
raping her, telling everyone about it, and then having the courts force
?her to be his wife for the rest of her life
What about the rights of women in Islam? Are they indeed, as the
popular propaganda would have us believe, "second class citizens"?
:Let us read the Qur'an
And they (women) have rights similar to those of men over them in"
"a just manner
And their Lord has heard them (and He says): Verily! I suffer not"
the work of any worker, male or female, to be lost. You proceed one
from another. So those who fled and were driven forth from their
homes and suffered damage for My cause, and fought and were slain,
verily I shall remit their evil deeds from them and verily I shall bring
them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow. A reward from
".Allah. And with Allah is the fairest of rewards
And covet not the thing in which Allah has made some of you excel"
others. Unto men a fortune from that which they have earned, and
unto women a fortune from that which they have earned. (Envy not
one another) but ask Allah of His bounty. Verily! Allah is Knower of
".all things
Unto the men (of a family) belongs a share of that which parents"
and near kindred leave, and unto the women a share of that which
parents and near kindred leave, whether it be little or much, a legal
".share
And whoso does good works, whether of male or female, and he (or"
she) is a believer, such will enter paradise and they will not be
".wronged the dint in a date stone
.The noble Qur'an, Al-Nissa(4):124
And the believers, men and women, are protecting friends one of"
another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they
establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey Allah
and His messenger. As for these, Allah will have mercy on them. Lo!
".Allah is Mighty, Wise
And of His signs is this: He created for you spouses from yourselves"
that you might find tranquillity in them, and He ordained between
".you love and mercy. Lo, herein indeed are signs for folk who reflect
Whoso does an ill deed, he will be repaid the like thereof, while"
whoso does right, whether male or female, and is a believer, (all) such
".will enter the Garden, where they will be nourished without stint
In the Qur'an, both Adam and Eve share the blame for eating from
the tree. This can be seen in the Qur'an in such verses as Al-
Baqarah(2):36, Al-A'araf(7):22-24. They were also both forgiven by
God Almighty for this sin. Actually, in one verse of the Qur'an
.(Taha(20):121), Adam is specifically blamed
Mothers shall suckle their children for two whole years; (that is) for"
those who wish to complete the suckling. The duty of feeding and
clothing nursing mothers in a seemly manner is upon the father of
the child. No one should be charged beyond their capacity. A mother
should not be made to suffer because of her child, nor should he to
whom the child is born (be made to suffer) because of his child. And
on the (father's) heir is incumbent the like of that (which was
incumbent on the father). If they desire to wean the child by mutual
consent and (after) consultation, it is no sin for them; and if you wish
to give your children out to nurse, it is no sin for you, provided that
you pay what is due from you in kindness. Observe your duty to
".Allah, and know that Allah is Seer of what you do
But consort with them in kindness, for if you hate them it may.."
".happen that you hate a thing wherein Allah has placed much good
The best believers are the best in conduct, and the best of you are"
".those who are best to their wives
(Narrated by Abu-Dawood)
(Narrated by Abu-Dawood)
Whoever maintains two girls till they attain maturity, he and I will"
."come on the Day of Resurrection like this; and he joined his fingers