The answer is different when it comes to God compared with traditional Islam.
Every Westerner thinks that Islam is very chauvinistic and oppressive towards
women. In Islam of today as practiced by most traditional sectarian Muslims,
this is very true. However, in true Islam (Submission), as revealed in the
Quran, nothing could be farther from the truth.
God treats men and women as spiritual equals., Quran 3:195 tells us :
"Their Lord responded to them: "I never fail to
reward any worker among you for any work you do, be you MALE OR FEMALE, YOU
ARE EQUAL TO ONE ANOTHER........."
Many of the Muslim countries who claim to follow Islam are treating women
as a second class citizens, and some of these women accepted this situation
thinking that is what Islam (Submission in English) is advocating. As mentioned
previously, God, in the Quran made a complete spiritual equality between
men and women, See 3:195.
Most of the degrading, humiliation and poor treatment in these Muslim Countries
for women, came from the desertion of the Quran , and refusal of the word
of God in favor of some fabrications written in Hadith books that put women
on the same level with animals, monkeys , asses or dogs.
The total respect and rights guaranteed by God for the Muslim women can not
be taken away by a lie written in another man-made book. While God made men
and women spiritually equal as seen in 3:195 the traditional Muslims who
prefer Hadith over Quran always remind the women of this alleged Hadith:
"Women are naturally, morally and religiously
defective". (Bukhary).
That is what Bukhary writes not what God says, not what the prophet who
represents the message of God could have said, since this statement is totally
against the Quran. Because women usually do not have the physical strength
of man, hadithists see them as "naturally defective". They forget that women
have other natural qualities in which they are superior to men, like their
ability to endure pain, the ability to bear children, etc.
Hadithists see women as "morally defective", conveniently ignoring the fact
that the vast majority of individuals jailed for murder, rape, child abuse,
etc. are men. And hadithists claim that women are "religiously defective"
but it is they (not God in the Quran) who forbid their daughters from praying
and fasting during their menstrual periods and it is they (not God) who
discourage the women from going to the mosque, even for Friday prayers.
Their problem is that they have taken the words of men instead of the words
of God. After making it all but impossible for a woman to practice her religion
for about 25% of her life (the amount of time most women have their periods),
is it any wonder that hadithists claim that the majority of people in Hell
are women????!
However what God revealed in the Quran is very different. The spiritual equality
between men and women is reiterated in 4:124, as follows:
"As for those who lead a righteous life, MALE OR
FEMALE. while believing, t hey enter Paradise; without the slightest injustice"
and again in 16:97:
" Anyone who works righteousness, MALE OR FEMALE,
while believing, we will surely grant them a happy life in this world, and
we will surely pay them their full recompense for their righteous works."
and yet again in 40:40,
[40:40] Whoever commits a sin is requited for just
that, and whoever works righteousness - MALE OR FEMALE - while believing,
these will enter Paradise wherein they receive provisions without any limits.
I believe it is time to go back to the Quran, and believe God, before a day
comes when the messenger will complain to God, that the Muslims deserted
the Quran, 25:30
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