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Womens' Rights in Islam
Property Rights
Under the laws of Islam, women have obtained the right to sell and buy properties, own business and take legal actions. In the Islamic history there were no restrictions in women's full participation in the economic, political and social spheres of their society. For example, Mother of the believers Khadija, the Prophet's first wife may Allah be pleased with her, was one of the most important merchants of the time, and the Prophet himself was her employee.
Islam, since the seventh century C.E., has granted married women the independent personality which the Judaeo-Christian West had deprived them until very recently. The wife's property and earnings are under her full control and for her own use alone since her, and the children's, maintenance is her husband's responsibility. No matter how rich the wife might be, she is not obliged to act as a co-provider for the family unless she herself voluntarily chooses to do so. Spouses do inherit from one another. Moreover, a married woman in Islam retains her independent legal personality
Consequently, woman in Islam is always considered a separate financial entity. When she marries, her property remains her own and her husband has no access to it without her full consent.
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