5. INTRODUCTION
Definition of women’s rights:
Dr. Zakir Naik: according to Oxford Dictionary
“Women’s rights are the rights that promote a
position of social and legal equality of women to
men.”
Women rights claimed for equal to those of men
as regards to vote, property and modernize.
6. Truth about women’s rights in Islam:
Women rights in Islam, as portrayed by the western
media, you have no option but to agree that the
women’s rights in Islam are outdated.
The western talk of women liberation is actually a
misrepresent form of exploitation of her body,
deprivation of her honor and degradation of her
soul.
7. Truth about women’s rights in Islam (Cont.)
The western society actually reduced the status of
women and made them mistresses and society
butterflies.
They are mere tools in the hands of sex marketers
& pleasure seekers behind the colorful screen of
art & culture.
8. Truth about women’s rights in Islam (Cont.)
Islam’s radical support gave women their due
rights and status in the days of ignorance 1,400
year ago.
Islam objective was and continues to be to
modernize our thinking, our living, our seeing, our
hearing, our feeling and striving for the women’s
upliftment and emancipation in the society.
9. Ideas are Important not the Individuals
Behaviour:
The first point is that approximately one fifth of the
world’s population consists of Muslims. There are
different Muslims societies-some may be close and
some may be far away from Islam.
The women’s rights in Islam should be judged
according to the authentic sources and not what
individual Muslims do, or what the Muslim society
does.
10. Ideas are Important not the Individuals
Behaviour (Cont.).
The authentic sources of Islam are the Qur’an
which is the word of God and the authentic
Sunnah and the traditions of our beloved Prophet
(Peace be Upon Him.
The Qur’an will never contradict itself nor will the
Sahih Hadith contradicts itself…neither will these
two authentic sources contradict each other.
11. Ideas are Important not the Individuals
Behaviour (Cont.).
Sometimes the scholars differ and many a times
these differences can be removed by analyzing
the Qur’an as a whole and not just by quoting one
particular verse. Because if one particular verse of
the Qur’an is ambiguous, the answer is given
somewhere else in the Qur’an. Some people
quote one source and neglect all the other
sources.
12. Ideas are Important not the Individuals
Behaviour (Cont.).
It is the duty of every Muslim, male or female, to
seek the pleasure of Allah (SWT) and to act as His
trustee on this world and not to try and gain fame
or satisfy one’s own ego.
13. Nature of equality of Men & Women
Islam believes in equality of men and women but
equality does not mean identifality.
In Islam, the role of a man and woman is
complimentary not conflicting.
It is that of a partnership not contradictory so as to
strive for supremacy.
14. Nature of equality of Men & Women
Cont.
Women rights in Islam are concerned and divided
them into 6 broad categories.
o The Spiritual rights
o The economical rights
o The social rights
o The educational rights
o The legal rights
o The political rights
