In the Muslim world, there are different images of women as they appear in Islam. Some Muslim countries allow women to hold professional positions such as judges and members of parliament. Women in these countries can drive cars and attend universities at higher rates than men, and they have the right to vote, contrary to the image that most of the Western world has. He sees many Western countries as more serious when it comes to women’s rights, such as places that are sexually segregated and require that women marry their husbands. These women are fully veiled in public and, if found guilty, or in some places deemed guilty of adultery, stoned. In the Western world, the symbol of this oppression of women is the veil that women must cover their faces.
For some women, the veil represents this oppression, but in other places, women accept the veil because they believe in their purity and dignity. In “modern” Islamic communities such as Egypt and even America women continue to cover themselves with this veil and dress. into the public This traditional dress is believed to have a unique freedom and modesty with regard to sex, as seen in the Western world. Dress as a sexual opposition shows the opposition to Western-style clothing, and therefore rejecting major cultural and political infractions and being able to retain one’s own culture.
The Quran itself raised the status of women to a much higher place than it was in Arabia before Muhammad’s revelations, raising the question of whether it was Islamic oppression or local customs. In the Quran, or Recitation, Revelation, women are no longer tolerated as property, and women are granted rights to control property, retaining In marriage maiden names and legal citizens contrary to the suitability of property. Similar to the story of Adam and Eve in Christianity, men and women in Islam are considered to be created equal. The Quran states that men and women are equal in the eyes of God and complement each other as equals. Men and women must faithfully follow Islamic teachings along with the Five Pillars of Islam and are supposed to be respectful to each other. Despite this, there are Muslim countries where the status of women is obscure.
Despite the presence of the status of women in the Quran, most Muslim societies have been and continue to be patriarchal societies. The Quran may contain the recitations of the Prophet Muhammad, but it is men who interpret these. People remain in power both politically and religiously, although moderns are beginning to open these places and ideas to interpretation. Mena actually said in the Quran that there is responsibility and “priority” in women, which creates some debate. Hence, it leads to the interpretation that women dominate socially and economically and their concern is to take care of women, who do not have as high a position in Muslim society as men (arguably), although it is called the religion of Islam. to be founded on faith and not on race.
However, the Quran makes an odd mention of women in their relationship status with men. The Quran suggests that before the law, “testimony should be given about men by two witnesses. And if two men are not present, a man and two women.” This seems to indicate that the word and testimony of the man is double that of the woman, or rather to interpret, that the testimony of the woman is only half that of the man. Whatever the argument, the Quran’s depiction of women in this passage (2:282) seems to be taken out of context with what the rest of the Quran seems to say about the status of women, although that is the point of these passages. they are left to interpretation by those in power, that is, men. In many Islamic countries, men are allowed to marry and divorce as they please, but women have much more restrictive freedoms when it comes to divorcing a man.
Muhammad himself had many wives, and in his recitation it is said that women should remain in their homes, and should avoid men, and should not know modesty; . In the Quran, however, these suggestions of staying at home seem to apply only to Muhammad’s wives, perhaps because of his high status, but fundamentalist Muslim men apply these passages to all Muslim women as a way to avoid temptation for men. This controversy in many Muslim world shines like a little theme of uniform travel. they interpret the Quran outside the famous Five Pillars of Islam. Afghanistan under the Taliban was very patriarchal and a serious source of oppression for women, whereas in places like Egypt and Indonesia, which has the largest Muslim population in the world, women have access to education and employment. Women women are rapidly becoming more active in the daily lives of Muslims in these less conservative areas.
Source:
Yvonne Haddad and John Esposito’s “Islam Gender and Social Change”
Akbar Ahmed’s “Women and Gender in Islam”
