The Rights of Women in Islam

The Rights of Women in Islam

BISMILLAHI RAHMAAN, RAHIM.

 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, and the Most Merciful

Compiled by Leila Sheikh

MANY issues are brought to light of the atrocities committed against Muslim Women on the mistaken belief that it is an Islamic Prescription. This is in contrast to the fact that the Koran strongly condemns all forms of oppression and injustice and that Islam is a Faith based on Peace.

Allah (SW) is protective of the downtrodden and oppressed classes of people and in fact favors women but Muslim societies in general based on cultural patriarchy and NOT on Islamic Thought and Practice, tends to be far more concerned with the control of women’s bodies; thoughts and action rather than with the Human Rights of Women as stipulated in the Holy Koran.

When women’s Rights are discussed by the Muslim Orthodoxy which is highly patriarchal for having integrated more`s and beliefs from their ethnic and cultural practices and which are NOT Islamic in origin and practice, women’s chastity is brought into focus, not their Right to Responsible Freedom.

The Koran is particularly solicitous of domestic well being and development but despite this, Muslim Women have been the target of the most serious violation of Human Rights.

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