The Status of Woman in ISLAM & The Muslim Woman's Dress - Dr. Jamal A. Badawi‏

Today people
think that women are liberated in the West and that the women’s
liberation movement began in the 20th century. Actually, the women’s
liberation movement was not begun by women but was revealed by God to a
man in the seventh century by the name of Muhammad (peace be upon him), who is known as the last Prophet of Islam.
The Qur'an and the Traditions of the Prophet (Hadith or Sunnah) are the
sources from which every Muslim woman derives her rights and duties.

Her
position in early Islam was really an exemplary one, one that should be
studied and known by every woman as well as every liberationist in the
twentieth century--- in America as well as in the Muslim World. The
Muslim woman, if she is true to the principles of her religion, has
lessons in equality to teach the Westerner, and her descendants in the
East have to learn anew the role demanded of them by their religion.
Orientalists and Orientals zealous for modernization should cease to
put the blame on Islam, a blame which instead deserves to fall on their
own ignorance of the faith and on the political and social decline
which their nations suffered in the past.

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said:

The most perfect believers are the best in conduct and best of you are those who are best to their wives.

For anyone looking for precise information about the long debated issue of The Status of Women in ISLAM,
this book will help you to a better understanding of the topic. The
roles and rights of Muslim women have been the subject of hot debate
amongst Muslims and non-Muslims for centuries. In this short book, Dr.
Badawi shatters stereotypes and clearly presents the topics. It
includes:

With
all of the misinformation surrounding the true status of women in
Islam, this package of material is a necessary antidote to the
ignorance and misunderstanding about this topic.

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The Muslim Woman's Dress


Islam
is flexible and quite easy to implement, while still allowing room for
individualism and expression through dress. There are no prohibitions
for women's dress on color, cloth, or style so long as they fit basic
requirements. Those requirements are:
THE FIRST REQUIREMENT: Extent of Covering
THE SECOND REQUIREMENT: Looseness
THE THIRD REQUIREMENT: Thickness
THE FOURTH REQUIREMENT: Overall Appearance

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): "In later (generations) of my ummah there will be women who will be dressed but naked. On top of their heads (what looks) like camel, humps.
Curse them for they are truly cursed." ln another version he added that
they "will not enter into paradise or (even) get a smell of it." (13)

This
essay provides adequate Quranic references on the topic of Hijab,
Purdah and the Muslim Woman’s dress code as appointed by Allah Almighty
and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

Author Biography: Dr. Jamal Badawi was
born in Egypt where he completed his undergraduate education. He
completed his Ph.D from the Indiana University and subsequently joined
the faculty of Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada.

In addition to teaching in his formal field of education (Management), he has been teaching a course on “Islamic Religious Tradition” which is part of the offerings of the Religious Studies department at the same university.
Dr. Badawi has also taught a course on Islam at Stanford University (USA) and gave a series of lectures on the Quran at Oxford University (UK).
Dr. Badawi is the author of several works
on Islam, He also researched, designed and presented 352 half hour TV
programs on Islam broadcasted from several Local cable stations and
radio stations in the US and Canada, in addition to their use in
several countries overseas.



TIME to know the status of Women in Islam.

The Status of Woman in ISLAM

Dr. Jamal A. Badawi

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