From the quote, what do you think?
"Asserting Women's Rights
Ibn Al-Jauzi narrated the virtues and merits of Umar bin Al-Khattab (Allah bless him) in the following words: Umar forbade the people from paying excessive dowries and addressed them saying: "Don't fix the dowries for women over forty ounces. If ever that is exceeded I shall deposit the excess amount in the public treasury". As he descended from the pulpit, a flat-nosed lady stood up from among the women audience, and said: "It is not within your right". Umar asked: "Why should this not be of my right?" she replied: "Because Allah has proclaimed: 'even if you had given one of them (wives) a whole treasure for dowry take not the least bit back. Would you take it by false claim and a manifest sin'". (Al Nisa, 20). When he heard this, Umar said: "The woman is right and the man (Umar) is wrong. It seems that all people have deeper insight and wisdom than Umar".
2007-07-04 00:10:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Then he returned to the pulpit and declared: "O people, I had restricted the giving of more than four hundred dirhams in dowry. Whosoever of you wishes to give in dowry as much as he likes and finds satisfaction in so doing may do so"."
2007-07-04 00:11:07 · update #1
Muslim men should be kicked in the nuts. Your women have a hell of a lot of patience with you guys, but one day they'll finally stand up for their rights. We all know you're sh!ttin' your dresses thinking of that! And that's why you treat them so horribly.
2007-07-04 00:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by ferociousnibbler 3 · 6⤊ 9⤋
LOL NO!!! I can tell you that I am Muslim and I am not always quiet and soft spoken. I am strong, independent and will defend myself when necessary. I am also treated as an equal in my marriage and if I don't like something, I speak my mind. I am not punished for this because my husband wants to know how I feel.
That is what this woman did and that is perfectly acceptable. We are women and we are intelligent. We have a say in all things in our lives and men have to listen to us. When they don't, they are not practicing true Islam.
2007-07-04 08:01:20 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
In Islam, women has the right to speak out. But naturally, the qualities that makes a woman a woman is her kindness, soft spoken, love and shy.
2007-07-04 13:40:00 · answer #3 · answered by Ismail Eliat 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
in matters of the deen she shouldnt shy aware from speaking out(as you had mentioned with the case of umar radiyallahu anhu)
she shouldnt be soft spoken to others, they they may think she was trying to lure them/seduce them
but at the same time she shouldnt be too loud drawing unnessary attention to herself...
2007-07-04 08:20:39 · answer #4 · answered by destinys_final 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It all sounds like women are products being sold off a shelf when you talk of dowries and having more then one wife is polygamy. They are treated terribly and they don't even know it because they are brainwashed into thinking it's right. It isn't right. Men and women are equal. They are help mates to one another not slave and master.
2007-07-04 07:23:31 · answer #5 · answered by greylady 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
i think being soft spoken or silent is not a sign of weakness but it is ahowing that a woman knows how to control her toungue etc..
but if she feels she needs to shout to be heard then she should as a last resort
2007-07-04 12:03:27 · answer #6 · answered by pretty flower 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Man and woman are equal in God's sight. They have equal rights in everything. Just exercise it.
2007-07-04 07:15:12 · answer #7 · answered by hpathik 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
What muslims on YA have advised me: Islam supports the right of women to speak up for their religion. It allows them to talk to male strangers to advise them of Islam , or to help them in business transactions. That's about it. Hardly the front runner for womens rights.
2007-07-04 07:16:19 · answer #8 · answered by =42 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
no everyone has a right to say what they want. being soft spoken is a sign of weakness
2007-07-04 07:14:04 · answer #9 · answered by know_it_all 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
is not soft it may make some sick in the head people have some sexual feeling like what is going on in America the biggest rape and children Mustering in the planet
2007-07-04 07:17:01 · answer #10 · answered by curious 2 · 7⤊ 3⤋
no! nobody shud b silent and soft spoken when injustice is done to them no matter wat religion. whether man or woman. especially women coz they r often exposed 2 injustice.
2007-07-04 07:22:07 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋