Rights Of Women

Islam is not the name of only a few beliefs and carrying out some obligatory acts, but it teaches humans the golden principles of life and blesses them with the light of knowledge provides them salvation from the darkness of ignorance. Islam guides humans in all the phases of life. Islam has not only stated the rights of others, but it has also brought salvation for women, who were the victims of the society in the pre-Islamic era. Islam has saved women from the cruelty, oppression and injustice of the society and has given them all the permissible rights from which they used to remain deprived of. In short, the status of women has been raised by Islam in the society by granting them respect which they could not even imagine in the pre-Islamic era.

Women were in a very terrible condition before Islam. They had no respect and importance in the world. For men they were only a kind of toy which they used to fulfil their Nafsani [carnal] desire. Women would serve men day and night in different ways, and whatever they would earn after working hard they would give to men, but even then the cruel men did not esteem the women, but rather they would beat them brutally. For a small reason, they used to cut the nose, ear and other body parts and sometimes even they would kill them. After the death of the father the way sons used to become the owners of his property and possessions, similarly they used to become the owners of his wives and would keep them forcefully as their female slaves. After Islam, Islamic women got relieved from such oppressions.