The position of the woman in Islam-2

One of the highest teachings of Islam is removing different kinds of void and imaginary superiority like the racial discriminations, tribal prejudice etc. In Islam all the humans are equal in the eyes of Allah and no one can say that because for example I am a rich man, so I’m better than others, or because I come from a civilized country so I have to be respected by others, or because I am a man, so I’m higher than the women. The only superiority of one person over others is mentioned in the verse 13 in chapter Hujurat:

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَى وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ

“People, we have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes that you might know one another. The noblest of you before Allah is the most righteous of you. Allah is the knower, the aware.”

When we refer to the Islamic rulings we see that what greatness and honor Islam has given to the women. In Islam the man can never force woman to work for him even the tiniest works. In Islam woman is not bound to cook or clean the house etc. the man cannot spent even a dollar of the property of a woman without her permission and pleasance. The very interesting point here is that a husband cannot and is not allowed to force his wife to nurse and suckle their baby. Of course here is an important discussion; in such cases that the man cannot force his wife to do the above mentioned items, it is good morally for a woman to help her husband in the affairs of the house like cooking or nursing the baby, but from the viewpoint of Islamic rulings these mentioned affairs are not the duties and responsibilities of women. So we must not mix between moral discussions and those of law.

An important point here which is a cause for a lot of accusations is that we must not consider the deeds of some Muslims as the teachings of Islam. For example there are some extreme so-called Muslims that they attack other peoples and murder them under the name of Islam, the extreme group that ruins the face of the real Islam. So for knowing the Islam we must refer to the reliable sources and pure teachings of Islam and to the real explanations of them.

When we refer to the books of the history of west, we see that for many centuries women did not have the right of ownership, and since the year 1882 they got allowed to spend their own wages and it is considerable that according to some western historians even this decree was issued in order to drag the women into working into the factories in order to uses from their energy for very few wages, but look at the teachings of Islam that from fourteen centuries ago decreed that women can spend their property. Allah said in chapter Nisa verse 32:

لِّلرِّجَالِ نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا اكْتَسَبُواْ وَلِلنِّسَاء نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا اكْتَسَبْنَ

“For men is a share of what they earn, and for women is a share of what they earn.”

From the above verse we understand that none of the rights of men or women must be violated.