The role and status of women in Islam is oft criticized by many who champion the rights of women in the free world. It is generally believed that women in Islam are enslaved to men and that they have no life of their own, kept shrouded under tons of clothes and denied access to the world.
Generally speaking, the women in the so called free world, are free to do whatever they want, wear what they like, no matter how revealing and displaying their bodies to lure and attract the opposite gender, live beyond the bondage of marriage with any man or one after the other with no restrictions or no questions asked, become advertisement beauties and much more. Thus to them Muslim women cloaked covering their bodies is something very objectionable, against the human rights and freedom and tangent to the concept of gender equality.
A lot many questions are asked by the free women from the Muslim women clad in Hijab and overall body covering. And some questions are so intriguing and mind boggling that even many Muslim women fail to answer these questions and find them at loss of a rationale response. The onslaught of such objections is so over whelming that many Muslim women are also falling prey to such objections and try to break away the so called "shackleless" that restrain their freedom and try to join the club of free women.
This post aims at listing down many questions objecting to the role and status of women in Islam, which are then answered in a very informative video shared at the end of the post.
The Objections to Role and Status of Women in Islam
- Women enslavement by men
- Covering the whole body which is detrimental to women freedom
- Marrying four wives by men
- Women not allowed to choose their life partner and are bound to obey to their family elders
- Women at mercy of men in matters relating to divorce
- Unequal distribution of wealth as heirs
- Scolding and striking of wives by husbands
- Restricting role of women to the role of mothers only, thus making them childbearing machines
- The half witness value of women in the court
The answer to all questions are answered in the video shared below. Those with an abject and analytical rational mind would the find the answers appealing and rationale and perhaps may change their previously held misconceptions about the role and status of women in Islam and start to view Islam as a well meaning religion full of Divine wisdom:
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