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Status of Women in Islam

this serious event, treating the wounded, comforting the

orphans and enraged that the corpses of the martyrs were
abandoned on the sands of Karbala under the burning heat
of the sun.

It is safe to say that her stand after the massacre of
Karbala gave this tragedy a permanent place in history.
Zeinab did not live long after this tragedy. In this short
period of time she was able to inflame the grief in the
Muslims’ souls for the cause of the martyrdom of Imam

al-Husain.

Her sermons in Iraq after the massacre of Karbala and
her stand in the court of the Umayyad government in
Damascus changed the course of Islamic history and
agitated the flames of the revolution against the Umayyad
rulers which led to the collapse of the Umayyad dynasty.

It must be borne in mind that Islam has given the woman
the right to pursue her education on the grounds that
Prophet Mohammad made education incumbent on every
Muslim male and female and said. “Seek knowledge from
the cradle to the grave”.

For fourteen centuries, Islamic Law (shariah) has given
women total financial independence, their right to own

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