Education & Legal Rights Of Women In Islam

STUDY ISLAM - Islam strongly recommends to the Muslims - male or female - to acquire knowledge, it's proved through the first revelation, in Surah Al-Alaq, which says:

"Read, recite or proclaim in the name of your Lord, Who has created the human beings from a congealed clot of blood (a leech like substance). Read, your Lord is most bountiful. Who has taught the use of the pen. Who has taught the human beings that which he knew-not" [QS. Al-Alaq 96:1-5]

The first guidance given in the Qur’an to the humankind was not to pray, was not to fast, was not to give charity. It was READ, and it means learn, study, and acquire knowledge. Islam pays utmost importance to education. 'Science without faith (religion) is lame. and faith without science is blind'.

Education is Compulsory in Islam
According to Quran:

"God will exalt those of you who believe and those who are given knowledge to high degrees." [QS. Al-Mujadilah 58:11]

"And say, O my Lord! increase me in knowledge". [QS. Thaha 20:114]

"And whoever is is given knowledge is given indeed abundant wealth". [QS. Al-Baqarah 2:269]

According to a saying of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh):

“It is obligatory for every Muslim, male or female, to acquire knowledge (Al-Bayhaqi).

Imagine, 1400 years ago, when the women were ill treated and were only used as property, Islam asked the women to be educated.

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Social Rights Of Women In Islam

STUDY ISLAM - Social rights of women in Islam can be categorized into four sub-headings. Social rights given to a daughter, to a wife, to a mother and to a sister.

Social Rights to a Daughter
Islam prohibits, female infanticide. The killing of female children is forbidden in Islam.
It is  mentioned in Surah Taqveem, 

"when the female child is buried alive and when she questions you, for what crime was she killed". [QS. At-Taqveem 81:8-9]

Not only female infanticide has been prohibited, all sorts of infanticides has been prohibited in Islam, whether it be a male child or a female child. It is mentioned in several places in Qur’an,

"Kill not your children for want of sustenance for it is God that will provide sustenance for you and for children." [QS. Al-An'am 6:151]

"Kill not your children for want of sustenance, for it is God that will provide sustenance to you and your children, for killing of children is a major sin." [QS. Al-Isra 17:31]

In the pre-Islamic Arabia, whenever a female child was born mostly she was buried alive. Alhamdulillah, after the spread of Islam this evil practice has been discontinued.

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Economical Rights Of Women In Islam

STUDY ISLAM - Islam gave economical rights to the women 1,300 years before the West. An adult Muslim woman can own, she can dispose or disown any of her property without consulting any one, irrespective whether she is married or she is single. In 1870, it was the first time in England, that the West recognized the rights of the married woman, where she was allowed to own or dispose any of her property without consultation. 

Women on Job
A women in Islam, if she wishes to work she can work. There is no text in the Qur’an or the authentic Hadith which prevents or makes it prohibited for a woman to do any work, as long as it is not unlawful, as long as it is within the preview of the Islamic Shariah, as long as she maintains her Islamic dress code.

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Spiritual Rights Of Women In Islam

STUDY ISLAM - Another misconception is that, which the Western media has, that, ‘The woman has no soul’. In fact, it was in the seventeenth century, when the Council of wise men, when they gathered at Rome, and they unanimously agreed that the woman had no soul.

In Islam, man and woman have the same spiritual nature. It is mentioned in Qur'an, 

"O mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single person, created, of like nature, His mate, and from them twain scattered (Like seeds) countless men and women;- reverence Allah, through whom ye demand your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs (That bore you): for Allah ever watches over you." [QS. An-Nisaa 4:1]

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Women Rights In Islam

STUDY ISLAM - Women's rights are part of human rights. enforcement of women's rights are part of the enforcement of human rights. In accordance with international commitments in the UN Declaration of 1993, the protection, fulfillment and respect for women's rights is the responsibility of all parties, both State institutions (executive, legislative, judicial) as well as political parties and Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Even individual citizens have a responsibility to protect and fulfill women's human rights.

From various studies about women, it seems that women have long suffered discrimination and violence in all areas of life. Various forms of discrimination and violence against women has worsened the living conditions of women and impede the advancement of women. Various attempts have been long fought to protect women's rights and freedoms for women, but until recently the results have not been significant.

In relation to Islam, many people misunderstand that Islam does not pay attention and protect women's rights. wear the hijab, or the division of inheritance is not equal to men, is one of the reasons for this misunderstanding, even assume that women's rights in Islam is already outdated. So, how is the real rights of women in Islam?

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