Women in Muslim Society


Muslim society over the centuries has treated women as second class
citizens. It's been this way since the beginning of time. Women are treated in
this manor for a number of reasons, but all leading back to the Quran. Women
are considered inferior to men, are treated unfairly in marriage, and even are
oppressed legally, but all are approved of in the Quran. It describes in detail
the way that a women is to be treated and the way a women should treat her
husband.
The Quran expresses the equality of the sexes in the following. "And
their Lord answereth them, `I will not suffer the work of him among you that
worketh, whether of male or female, to be lost. the one of you is the issue of
the other."(Q 3:195) So while the Qur`an holds the works of men and women in
equal regard and acknowledges that they are completely interdependent to their
very existence, They are not regarded as having equal worth as people. The fact
that men are a step above the......

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