As a Muslim Woman How do you feel your religion protects you?

Question

I have heard of so many injustices to Woman in the Name of Islam.
So Woman of Islam out there please enlighten me as to why this religion is right for you.
I am making no judgements I just want to understand.

Answer 1

WELL KEIR it is simple...there ae hypocrites in our religion just as in any religion...there are those who follow their faith as to those who don't. Allah SWT gave us rights

In the west, the common picture of a Muslim woman is the stereotype of a woman hidden behind a veil, a voiceless, silent figure, bereft of rights. It is a picture familiar to all of us, in large part because this is invariably how the western media portrays women in Islam

What do women and Islam have in common? Besides the stereotyped images that each suffers from individually, the status of women in Islam is one of the most extremely misunderstood and incorrectly portrayed things in western society.

A woman in Islam has the right to knowledge and education. Allah (SWT) encourages women to read and keep up the learning process. He also bestows His mercy upon all who seek knowledge, and gives them high status:

The Right to Go to the Mosque
The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said:

"If someone’s wife asks his permission to go to the mosque, he should not deny it to her."

At the same time, a woman’s prayer in her home is better, from the standpoint of her household duties and duties as a mother. Also it is better in the sense that it prevents unnecessary mixing with men.

In reality, and in Islam, the rights and responsibilities of a woman are equal to those of man, but they are not necessarily identical with them. Equality and sameness are two very different things. I think you’ll agree that, for one thing, women and men are physically very different from one another, although they are equal to each other in other important ways.

THE RIGHT OF A MUSLIM WOMAN IS TO BE RESPECTED FOR HER MIND AND FOR BEING HER OWN PERSON

there are others but this is long enough....if you'd like more you can email me....i also have instant messsaging.

Answer 2

Asslam Alikom , the Islam is sooo comfortable , like every one said , there is so many people that was cristians , they r now muslims , Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false. He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes. No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. In the Quran, God describes Himself No one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.

God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of all the creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad , we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child.1 God is far removed from injustice and tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.

God is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God.2 Even Jesus himself rejected this. God has said in the Quran

the islam made the women to have the right to : work , ask for divorce , and many things that the woman can be in rest , and so on........

Answer 3

Islam doesnt do any injustice to women, only cultures do. Islamic ideology does not hold women less than men. Muhammad (Pbuh) said that a woman is the twin half of men. But there are extremists who hold the opinion that women should not drive, work, or have other such rights. But extremists do not even follow an exaggerated version of islam, instead they believe in a corrupted version of it. The wife of the Prophet (pbuh), Aisha, led an army of men during war. She was also responsible for memorizing and writing so many of the hadith. Really, islam never degrades women but some of the cultures in the middle east are male dominated societies. Fortunately many islamic countries have made it out of this phase or are moving out of it. Pakistan had a woman as prime minister about 19 years ago and women still have government positions today. Islam teaches that women should be educated but some crazies find something wrong with that. I dont understand them enough to explain them to you but Islam itself does not degrade women. I am a muslim and yet am somewhat of a feminist. So dont think that I'm a brainwashed muslim who only thinks and believes what she is told to think and believe. If you study the history of women before islam, you can see that islam actually gave women more rights. And Muhammad (pbuh), the same man who is today called a womanizer was in that day a feminist. Baby girls used to be killed and the Quran stopped this cruel practice. Women were not given any inheritance because she went off to live with her husband but Islam made the parents give half inheritance to the daughter also. Today people argue and say why is a daughter given half as the amount the son is given. In that culture, a man had to support the household and his wife and children. He inherited that money from his father. A daughter was supported by her own husband after she was married but islam also gave her inheritance. So people who judge islam to be unfair to women are being ethnocentric and unreasonable. Thank you for trying to understand from our point of view....there are not many who listen.

Even america is not entirely there yet, women are still paid less than men for the same jobs in some places. So be patient, the rest of the world will hopefully catch up. I just want to say that it doesn't have to do with islamic teachings and is a cultural problem. Men dont want to lose their power :-\

Answer 4

Muslims are not all alike. Some restrict women (e.g. Afghanis & the Gulf states), some don't (e.g. Lebanese & Turkey), and some are inbetween (e.g. Morocco & Egypt). A better contradiction would be, the U.S. allegedly is for equal rights, yet it supports Saudi Arabia (where women may not even leave the house by themselves). Apparently, oil trumps principle in that case. And please be more specific about what you mean by liberals protecting the Muslim religion. Do you mean upholding the 1st Amendment concerning U.S. Muslims (and against what efforts?), or do you refer to treatment of Muslims in other countries? Edit: I still don't know what you mean by liberals protecting Islam. Protect it from what? You are right that U.S. liberals attack the failings of Christianity more than those of Islam. That is because 1) more U.S. liberals are Christian than are Muslim, 2) we have more knowledge of & contact with Christianity, and 3) we hold Christianity to a higher standard because we expect more of it. For the same reason, I expect more from Israelis than from Afghanis, mostly because the former are capable of more. Afghanistan is a destitute basket-case country, and a majority of the people are illiterate, so trying to quickly bring them up to our standards is something of a lost cause.

Answer 5

I'm a American Muslim woman and ever since I reverted to Islam back in October I feel a lot more happier than I did as a non Muslim. I wear hijab out of respect for ALLAH and because the hijab beautifies me as well. Muslim men don't stare at me for wearing it and treat me with respect. I feel safe and secure in wearing hijab and know that I am not being oppressed and that I am doing what ALLAH wants me to do which is stay true to Islam and not give into temptation. I feel sorry for non Muslim women because they choose not to cover and instead adhere to what they call "freedom" in which all they are doing is conforming to the wills of lustful men and degrading themselves by not dressing modestly. Islam protects me from the world and myself. I don't need to work, I get inheritance, I will be taken care of by my children when I reach old age, and I have rights that are appropriate to me. My brothers in Islam do not harm me or treat me like a dog. Instead they respect me for my mind and not my body. I am equal to man in Islam and man is equal to me in Islam.

Answer 6

Anyone wishing to understand Islam must first separate the religion from the cultural norms and style of a society. Female genital mutilation is still practised in certain pockets of Africa and Egypt, but viewed as an inconceivable horror by the vast majority of Muslims. Forced marriages may still take place in certain Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities, but would be anathema to Muslim women from other backgrounds.

About the hijab, It keeps me protected from the fashion industry. The hijab liberates you from the media, brainwashing you into, Buy this, buy that, you're supposed to look like this,.it allows me to be who I am. I don't have to worry about being popular through buying things that are 'cool'.

Any money or property owned by women is theirs to keep, and they are not obliged to share it. Similarly, in marriage, a woman's salary is hers and cannot be appropriated by her husband unless she consents.
Her husband is not her master; a Muslim woman has only one Master, and that is God. If her husband does not represent God's will in the home, the marriage contract is broken.

Women may not be equal in the manner defined by Western feminists, but their core differences from men are acknowledged, and they have rights of their own that do not apply to men.

In a truely Islamic society women have the following rights in Islam:
1. The right and duty to obtain education.

2. The right to have their own independent property.

3. The right to work to earn money if they need it or want it.

4. Equality of reward for equal deeds.

5. The right to express their opinion and be heard.

6. The right to provisions from the husband for all her needs and more.

7. The right to negotiate marriage terms of her choice.

8. The right to obtain divorce from her husband, even on the grounds that she simply can't stand him. (pls note that God deeply frowns upon divorce as a solution unless there is hardly any other alternative but it does not mean that men have more right to divorce their wives than women do.)

Answer 7

I will gladly tell you all the rights that I as a Muslim woman have. I wll tell you that in Islam, women are supposed to be honored. After all, Muhammad (pbuh) once said that, "paradise lies beneath your mother's feet." This quote may not be verbatim.
Also, remember with before the onset of Islam, women didn't have rights. They were treated as property and all that jazz.

1. In Islam, women and men are equal. For instance, Adam and Eve equally share the blame when they ate the apple and not just Eve alone.

2. As a Muslim woman, I have the right to work outside of my home. The money that I earn is mine alone and my husband can't take it away from. Although the house and children are my first responsibility.

3. I am entitled to getting an education. In Islam, men and women are both supposed to seek knowledge.

4. I have the right to propose to a man if I want to.

5. When menstruating, then I'm excused from praying, because many women suffer from cramps and PMS. While praying, we are supposed to focus solely on God and I don't know about you, but I can't think of anything but my cramps!

6. My future husband will not be able to marry again if I tell him no.

7. I have the right to NOT to be forced in any marriage.

8. I can't get marrie unless my husband gives me the Mahr, which is a gift. Otherwise the marriage is invalid and if we are divorced then he can't take it back (unless I am the blame for it such as cheating).

9. I have the right to divorce if my spouse doesn't treat me equally or abuses me.

10. I don't have to take on my husband's name. I have the right to keep my maiden name.

11. I have the right to inherit, which just like a man does.

12. I have to right to be a witness in a contract to Allah.

13. As a Muslim woman, I have the right to same rewards given to men by Allah in paradise.

The last speech Muhammad (pbuh) gave included about treating women properly and with respect.


"O You who believe! You are forbidden to inherit women against their will, and you should not treat them with harshness, that you may take away part of the Mahr (bridal-money given by the husband to his wife at time of marriage) you have given them, unless they commit open illegal sexual intercourse. And live with them honorably. If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing and Allah brings
through it a great deal of good." (An-Nisa 4:19)

Answer 8

im a convert to islam
why is this religion right?well,
i would say that islam is a way of life,i like the way we have to wash in a certain way,before we pray,5 times a day.i never fasted in my life until i converted,wow!it makes you think of all the blessing Allah has given us,food,water etc.also covering myself and wearing a headscarf,its better then being a piece of meat walking down the street,thats how i see it.not just that,also non muslims,when you sit together and have to impress the others with your weight,make up,clothes,where as i only have to look good for my husband.
i mean you see women at home,they smell like onions right!and when they go out they look good for strangers?
we look good in the home,for the husband,why to go and impress other men?
and i can honestly say,im happy.its enough for me to follow the Quran,it gives a person a wonderful feeling when you read it.
i hope you will try it soon.

Answer 9

It honours me in all the situations. I am allowed to take an assistant to a Court on my testimony in a Civil Suit to remind me when necessary (men have to stand alone in witness box), it allows me a free consent to my marriage when a match is proposed by parent; it allows me to stay at home with my children(or no children yet) and there is no compulsion that I go out to earn; I can have my property rights independent of a male; I am allowed to seek a dissolution to my wedding at my initiative; wearing a hijab and the type of hijab is my option; the contemporary women have or are serving their nation as President / Prime Minister, as a sovereign Queen when there were Kings ruling a Muslim country, Judge at High Courts, senior most ranking in Civil Service, officers in the Police, Army, Air Force( pilots of jet fighters), ambassadors, governor of the Central Bank(like Federal Reserve of US- like Bank of England), vice chancellor of Universities and Principals of Colleges, --- you name the profession and we are in. Thanks to our large hearted religion. Examples can be given with names of Office holders. ... In inheritance, I get a share from parent, from husband too ( had forgotten this point earlier... and may have forgotten many other points).

Answer 10

I just love it soooooooooooooooooo much :D
its so much comfortable and it's all about justice, it has given me my full rights and even considered the psychological nature of women and men.. woww what a religion :)