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Status of Women in Islam
Part Two :
The Status of Women
in Islam
When Prophet Mohammad declared Islam, the people of
Arabia heard about his Message, its universality and that
men and women were equal.
In the first place, Islamic history indicates to us that it was
a woman who was the first martyr in Islam, to rise up and
revolt against her master, to break the chains of slavery
and crush the shackles of customs and traditions which
dominated Arabian women.
From the very beginning of Islam, it considered man and
woman as two human beings with due respect to their
physical construction one being a male and the other a
female, and did not differentiate between them on the
grounds that every single human in general was the result
of procreation between the male and the female.
“ Suffer not the work of any worker male or female to be lost, you
proceed one from another” Qur’an 3:195
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