Islam and Politics
Don’t Drive A Wedge Between Islam And Women
By Prof. Akhtarul Wasey
During the life-time of the Prophet, women enjoyed all the freedoms and rights that women in many societies are fighting for even today. Women had complete economic autonomy in those times, which is exemplified by the Prophet’s wife Khadija who ran a well-spread export-import business and which never faced any restrictions from the Prophet. Prophet’s wife Aaisha was among the most prominent in the fields of scholarship and education. Almost one third of the knowledge about Islamic Shariah is believed to have been delivered to the posterity by her. Zainab, the daughter of Husain, who gained martyrdom at Karbala, was a greater orator and repository of Islamic wisdom. Rabia Bari is well-known among the earliest Sufi Saints of Islam. Indian history too bears witness to the women achievers like Razia Sultan and Chand Bibi as rulers, Zaibun Nisa and Jahar Ara as poets and scholars and the women-rulers of Bhopal who have left a great legacy of responsible and responsive governance, education, particularly of women and enlightenment. Poet philosopher Iqbal and scholars like Shibli Nomani and Syed Suleman Nadvi heaped praises on these women of Bhopal for their extraordinary human qualities. Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, one of the greatest divines of Darul Uloom Deoband had issued a Fatwa in favour of their rule.
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