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Women’s Issues Made Simple by Batul S. Arastu

WOMEN’S ISSUES MADE SIMPLE

From the Book

Ritual purity is an idea that is found in all religions. It requires that the worshipper is in the right physical and mental state, to make the spiritual state that the particular act of worship aims for more probable.

 Now as the physical and mental characteristics of human beings differ according to their mental or physical health, their age, or their gender, it would not be worthy of an all-wise and all-knowing Creator to allow the state of ritual purity to be achieved by all these different types of human beings in the same way.

 Hence there exist different laws of ritual purity for the different classes and states that human beings hold. Women, being the childbearing members of the human race who as a consequence of the fact undergo menstruation and postnatal bleeding, have special laws of ritual purity.

These laws have been carefully derived by jurisprudents from authoritative sources and are firmly based on the written and oral tradition of orthodox Islam.

Developments in jurisprudential methods and the natural accretions that the outcome of such methods are given have meant that a vast and very accurate set of rules has been collected over the centuries.

The vastness is such that there is felt the danger of the average woman not being able to navigate her way through the rules, or perhaps worse, of her losing sight of the forest for the trees.