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Womens' Rights in Islam
Aspects of Equality in the Holy Quran
Woman's spiritual equality with man
Woman's spiritual equality with man is repeatedly stressed in the Holy Quran. For instance it is said:
"Enter into paradise ye and your wives, honoured and happy." (43:71)
"Whose acts righteously, whether male or female and is a believer, we will surely grant him a pure life; and We will surely bestow on such their reward according to the best of their work." (16:98)
"For men who submit themselves wholly to Allah, and women who submit wholly to Him and men who believe and women who believe, and men who obey Allah and women who obey Him, and men who are truthful and women who are truthful, and men who are steadfast and women who are steadfast, and men who are humble and women who are humble, and men who give alms and women who give alms, and men who fast and women who fast, and men who guard their chastity and women who guard their chastity, and men who remember Allah and women who remember Him, Allah has prepared forgiveness and great reward." (33:36)
These verses make it clear that Muslim women stand on the same level with Muslim men and that they can attain to all those spiritual heights to which men can attain. At several places in the Quran, believing men and believing women are addressed in the same language and are made equally subject to the same commandments and entitled to the same rights and privileges.
The Holy Quran said:
"Allah will turn in mercy to believing men and believing women; Allah is most forgiving, Ever Merciful." (33:74)
Men and women are afforded equal protection. For instance, the Holy Quran says:
"Those who malign believing men and believing women for that which they have not done, shall bear the guilt of a false statement and a manifest sin." (33:59)
"Those who persecute the believing men and believing women, and then do not repent, will surely suffer the chastisement of burning."(85;11)
Women being more vulnerable then men are accorded special protection. The Holy Quran says:
"Those who calumniate chaste unwary believing women are cursed in this world and the hereafter; and for them is a grievous chastisement, on the day when their tongues and their feet shall bear witness against them as to that which they used to do." (24:24-25)
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