Rights Of Women- Islam raised the status of Women

Status of wife in Islam

Before Islam wife was also kept as mortgage for money/possessions like animals and other goods.

(Sahih Bukhari, vol. 2, pp. 148, Hadees 2510)

These unfortunate women were in great trouble due to their powerlessness and no society and civilization solved their problems. But then the religion Islam came with the arrival of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ which not only has brought salvation to them from the cruelty and injustice, but it has also established women rights upon men. It is Islam that has declared the relationship, which is established between man and woman through Nikah, the protector of the half faith of man. It is Islam that has given the ownership of the Haq-Mahr given to them by their husbands and the inheritance of their husband in case of being a widow. Islam has not only discouraged the thought ‘for husband, wife is a disrespectable being’, but rather Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has said that wives are the source of husbands’ comfort and peace.

(Part 21, Surah Ar-Room, Ayah 21)

Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has commanded husbands about wives:

وَ عَاشِرُوْهُنَّ بِالْمَعْرُوْفِ

Translation from Kanz-ul-Iman:

And deal with them kindly.

(Part 4, Surah An-Nisa, Ayah 19)