WOMEN IN ISLAM – A companion book

WOMEN IN ISLAM – A companion book Compiled by KHALED FAHMY

WOMEN IN ISLAM – A companion book

It has been said that Islam, as a social system, is a total failure because ―It has misunderstood the relations between the sexes…and has degraded women and has degraded each successive generation of their daughters, following an increasing amount of disgrace and corruption, until it now seems almost impossible that a lower depth of vice can be reached

 This is certainly strong language and calls us to investigate whether Islam has really misunderstood the relations between sexes and whether it has really degraded women.

Very few of the critics make an effort to determine exactly what the actual teachings of Islam are in this respect, those that are embodied in the Glorious Qur‘an, and fewer still care to study the Prophet‘s life, which is the most authentic commentary on the Qur‘an text. 

Therefore, it is most regrettable that this misconception should have arisen about the status of women in Islam, a point on which the attitude of Islam is clear and unmistakable. 

I am afraid many in Europe and in the USA form such strange opinions from a study of tales or romance or books on travelling written by professional globe-trotters. They see in the ‗harem‘, which is, by the way, a name in the East for the ladies ‗apartment‘, a home of gross sensuality and voluptuous pleasures.

Such ideas have unfortunately prevailed in the West for a very long time and are supported by the wrong interpretations that have been put on certain Qur‘an verses and