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Status of Women in Islam
When his foster-sister visited him one day, he received
her warmly and spread out his cloak for her to sit on. In
these actions lies the great respect of Prophet Mohammad
towards women.
Since the early Message of Islam, women enjoyed full
political rights, and participated in all Socio-Political and
Religio-Political activities. Their pledge was to worship
none but the one true God; not to indulge in sex outside
marriage; not to assign illegitimate children to their
husbands; not to commit infanticide; not to steal; not to
indulge in slander or scandal and generally to obey the law
and principles of Islam.
These points were similarly prescribed for men, on
the grounds that the Islamic Law treats a woman as a
complementary part of human society with rights equitable
to those of a man.
Islam regarded both man and woman as being created
by God to rise to the full stature of the perfect human
and proclaims that in God’s eyes, there is no difference
between a man and a woman. Each being is a precious
soul.
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