The Prophet and women's rights FIROZ BAKHT AHMED TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2006 12:00:58 AM]
If we study the condition of women during the time of Prophet Mohammed, it would be clear that they were not as suppressed as they are today. Women used to participate in wars along with men, nursing them and taking care of them in the battlefield. Even Khadijah, the Prophets wife, ran her own business deftly. During the war of Ahad while the Prophet was injured, his daughter Fatimah ran around and arranged for his medical treatment. Similarly, another famous Muslim woman, Maimoona, formed an army of women. Rufaidah, a female doctor, established a hospital at the Masjid-e-Nabavi (Prophets mosque). In her nursing home she had the most modern methods for healing the diseased and the injured. Prophet Mohammeds way of treating women was exemplary. Once women complained that the Prophet had not fixed a day for meeting them in assembly. He thereupon fixed a day for meeting women exclusively. At these gatherings, women used to pose questions fearlessly and openly and the Prophet always showed special consideration towards them. The men used to wonder at the kindness and consideration shown by him towards women. To the Prophet, divorce was just unacceptable. He has made it clear that Islam does not regard it desirable. A hadith of the Prophet states: The most repugnant of things made lawful in the sight of God is divorce. A Sahaba (companion) went to Prophet Mohammed saying that his wife had too many bad qualities and he wanted to divorce her. At that, the Prophet advised him that he should spend his life with her only harping on her good qualities even if those were far too few. However, Islam does recognise the necessity for divorce in cases where marital relations have been so poisoned that peaceful domestic life is impossible. At the same time Islam doesnt believe in unlimited opportunities for divorce on frivolous and unimportant grounds as this would destroy the peaceful fabric of family life. The fact is, Arabs were the most barbaric of tribes just before the appearance of Prophet Mohammed. They subjected women to the most heinous of atrocities. It was Prophet Mohammed who released them from all sorts of evil bondage. Sadly, his followers today is not emulating his example. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1486492.cms Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
