{"id":19983,"date":"2020-12-06T17:21:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T15:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azhargraduates.org\/waag_new\/?p=19983"},"modified":"2021-09-07T11:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:33:20","slug":"%d8%af-%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b3-%d8%b4%d9%88%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%88%d8%b7%d9%86-%d9%81%d9%89-%d9%81%d9%83%d8%b1-%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b7%d8%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/19983\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters of Men\u2026 Women\u2026. Supporting the Development Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sisters of Men\u2026 Women\u2026. Supporting the Development Movement<\/strong>

Prof. Ahmad at-Tayyeb<\/strong>

The Grand Imam of al-Azhar<\/strong>
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The Islamic Shari’ah stated that men and women share the same rights and \u200eduties, since Islam is the first system in the world to liberate women from all the unjust \u200erestrictions imposed on them. In fact, the social system before Islam subjected women \u200eto injustice and marginalization; Thus, Islam came to support women, as mothers, \u200esisters, daughters or wives and guaranteed them all their rights\u200f.\u200f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, it is a grave mistake to consider the marginalization of the eastern women \u200efrom which they suffer is due to the teachings of Islam; this is totally a false claim. In \u200efact, this suffering is because of the violation of the teachings of Islam that are \u200econcerned with women, and preferring to apply obsolete traditions and customs which \u200ehave nothing to do with Islam, rather than applying the judgments concerned \u00a0with \u200ewomen in the Islamic Shari’ah. As a matter of fact, Muslim women have suffered from \u200eimposing restrictions on them that have nothing to do with the Islamic Sahri’ah, which \u200eled to the emergence of several problems like spinsterhood, disinheritance\u2026 etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, \u200ethe Muslim society has lost a lot of its creative energy, when we, as Muslims, allowed \u200ethe marginalization of women to take place and excluded them from the positions of \u200einfluence in our societies\u200f.\u200f\u200f \u200f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my view, there is no issue that has exhausted the minds of thinkers and \u200eresearchers as much as the issue of women\u2019s rights. Indeed, our contemporary Arab and \u200eIslamic library contains thousands of books, and research papers that tackled such an \u200eissue and studied it thoroughly; however, this issue sounds as if it has never been dealt \u200ewith\u200f.\u200fFor me, the issue of women rights can be studied from three perspectives, which \u200eare\u200f:\u200fFirst: the perspective of Islam, which has done justice to the Muslim women and \u200eunshackled them from restrictions imposed on them by civilizations contemporary to the \u200eadvent of Islam such as the Greek civilization and its two well-known poles, Plato and \u200eAristotle, the Roman Constitution, the Indian religions and other holy books and texts \u200ethat made women carry the burden of the Original Sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Arab Jahiliyyah (Before \u200eIslam) deprived women from the right of living, the right of education, the right to own \u200eproperties, the right of inheritance\u2026 etc\u200f.\u200fHowever, amid these suffocating circumstances, Islam had appeared and settled \u200ethis issue; as a matter of fact, at that time, Islam could have ignored \u00a0all the subjugations \u200eand grievances women were suffering from, without being subjected to any blame or \u200ereproach. At that time, the whole world was against giving women their rights and \u200ehuman dignity; nevertheless, Allah revealed his Qur’anic order, as he says: “women shall \u200ehave rights similar to those due from them, with justice” (Q:\u200e\u200f2:228\u200f\u200e) and “do not retain \u200ethem in harm to transgress” (Q:\u200e\u200f2:231\u200f\u200e), while the last words of Prophet Muhammad (bph) \u200ewas: “women are sisters of men”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Islam stopped the crime of Female \u200einfanticide forever and guaranteed the Muslim women rights, by which they preceded \u200etheir counterparts by fourteen centuries. Moreover, Islam gives women the right of \u200einheritance, education, the right of choosing their husbands, the right to have an \u200eindependent financial status, the right to keep their family names so that a wife does not \u200eget dissolved in her husband’s character, and finally Islam equaled between men and \u200ewomen in relation to their duties and responsibilities.\u200eIt is known that these rights should make the woman a creative component in the \u200esociety that is as important as man or even more important. It is true that Prophet \u200eMuhammad said: “\u2026 If I prefer one to another, I would prefer women to men”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200eHowever, this preference is not as making amends to an oppressed, but it draws \u200eattention to the advantages and specifications that distinguish women from men.\u200eAs for the second perspective, it is the perspective that is affected by traditions \u200eand norms more than Quran, Sunnah, and the explicit texts that elevate women and their \u200eacademic, social and human status. This perspective would have returned women to \u200etheir lives before Islam; it limits many of the rights Islam granted women and calls for a \u200estrange jurisprudence that imposes isolation and alienation on women to which they \u200ehave almost got accustomed. It is worth mentioning that Islam came to liberate women \u200efrom this siege and make them bear the responsibility for constructing and developing \u200ethe society.\u200e\u200e <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0 \u200eFurthermore, the third perspective is the western modernity that is associated \u200ewith special concepts and new philosophies that shunned many fixed values in the \u200ehistories of these societies and its ideologies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would say \u2013in brief\u2013 that there is a sharp \u200edifference between modernity with all its cautions and modernization that is interaction, \u200ediligence and renewal of religious and moral heritage to make use of its treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200eNeedless to say that modernity with its western concept is not the ideal model which \u200edeserves to be circulated and marketed internationally and globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200eThen we would wonder- is modernity the ideal alternative to a society that \u200epreserves values of family and motherhood despite associated religious transgressions? \u00a0\u200eOr should we accept this fact and try to change it or renew it based on our different \u200eidentities and cultures, since the other alternatives are definitely destructive and \u200ecatastrophic in both the materialistic and moral sense\u200e \u00a0 \u200eMoreover, the Arab and the Islamic world is in dire need today to elevate the \u200estatus of women and their role in supporting the movement of progress and community \u200edevelopment, especially in the light of the current challenges that the Arab and Muslim \u200ecommunities are witnessing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this requires us to glorify the role of women, honor \u200ethem, to be fair with them, exploit their wasted energy, and respect their rights granted \u200eby Islam.\u200e<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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