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The Principle of Bossism

organized life would have been possible in this world. Equals can
only live in anarchy and not in an organization or with unity.
An organization requires a head, and equals cannot accept
anyone as a head when everyone sees that everyone else is an equal.
This does not mean that the Quran believes in discrimination.
Discrimination is a great evil in the eyes of God.

No two men or women are equal by birth. In fact,
every man and woman is like a special creation.
Everyone has a unique capacity that others don’t
have.

Man has accepted this law of nature in all of his social
activities. According to the Quran, gender equality in the moral
sense is right but not in the organizational sense. Everyone has
the same status. Everyone is equally worthy of respect. But when
it comes to organization, this principle cannot be applicable.
Organization always requires an individual to serve as its head.
Being the head does not mean that he is superior to others. He
is an organizational head and not a moral head.
Then, what about the home? The home means a group
consisting of husband and wife, their children and grandchildren.
The home is thus a unit of society. So the home also needs to be
organized under a head. In the general sense, a man is suitable to
be appointed as head of this segment of society, but this is not an
absolute principle. It is possible to arrange things in a different
way, that is, a man can accept a woman as his boss. So, either a
man or a woman may serve as a boss according to the situation,
and depending upon acceptance by the other gender.

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