bismillah
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not mothers but women are treated in
islam
so i thought
maybe if you guys can should i yeah
thank you very
much allah
so the question is about women in islam
what does islam say about women compared
to what we may be seeing and watching
some cultural practices
before islam was reintroduced in arabia
in the 7th century
women did not have rights they were
treated as property and they did not had
any inheritance
but once islam came to them as god's
guidance islam brought equality to women
empowered women and uplifted women equal
to men in the eyes of god
right that's number one
number two it's important to know that
some of the rights that we as americans
especially the women over here they have
to fight for many many centuries many
decades the sufferings the rallies and
fighting for the rights
that's when you won the rights for the
women over here for example
you know in this state of illinois
not until 1861
women won the right to owe property
you know we just take it for granted any
lady over here with a credit card you
can go and buy a car a property house
but it did not it was not so for many a
bulk of this country so islam gave them
that right way back in the seventh
century
number two is women have the right not
to be forced into marriage
that means no one can force them into
marriage forced marriage is a cultural
practices not an islamic practice number
three is
they have the right to keep their last
name as they come into marriage
so my
wife her last name is
naheed
my last name is ahmad so when we got
married in the dupage county the clerk
he asked my wife the question so what
should we change your last name too
she looked at him with an angry face and
she said why would you like to change my
name change his name
right that is the right islam has given
to her she has the right to initiate
divorce
she has the right guaranteed inheritance
she has the right to gain education
in fact you'll be surprised to find out
that
not only she has the right she has an
obligation to gain education so getting
empowered by all of these rights and
strength and
freedoms that god has given to women
when our ladies over here they were
struggling to go to schools and colleges
and uh
they were fighting for the right to vote
until the night 1920
muslim ladies they were leaving they
were laying the foundation for hospitals
and pharmacies and universities
in fact the oldest continuous university
in the whole world
it was made by a muslim lady shhh
do you guys knew that oldest continuous
university according to the guinness
book of world records according to
unesco its foundation was laid by a
muslim lady her name is fatima al-fari
and that campus is in morocco which is
called as a university of harawayin
built in the year 859 way before oxford
and harvard and penn state and
cambridge it were the muslim ladies
who were excelling they were initiators
of campuses and higher education
so that is the rights and the freedoms
and the empowerment islam is given to
women so just in case if you see some
culture some group some country they
have taken away the rights of the muslim
ladies we have to blame them and not
islam so that is women in islam so if i
can just quote maybe one passage from
the quran one from the hadith so the
quran speaks about the equality of men
and women in chapter 33 verse number 35
and muhammad peace be upon him he said
both men and women they are equal like
twins right equality
so that's the freedom the rights the
empowerment
that islam has given to our mothers our
daughters our wives and our sisters in
humanity