our homes! May these people understand these blessed verses of the Holy Quran and abstain from this bad habit.

Moreover, in the light of these blessed verses, even the people should ponder a little who feel embarrassed about Islam and using ambiguous words say, ‘There are many hardships for women in Islam.’ They should reflect on whether Islam has caused hardships for women              or has saved women from hardships.

(Tafseer-e-Siraat-ul-Jinaan, vol. 2, pp. 167)

Dear Islamic sisters! Remember! Women were in a very sorry state before Islam. For men, women were nothing women would give men whatever they would earn after working hard day and night, but yet men would not value women, but rather they would beat them mercilessly. For trivial things, they would cut the ear and nose etc. of women and sometimes would even kill them. The Arabs would bury their daughters alive. After father’s death just as sons would become the owners of the land and property left by their father, they would also become the owners of his (i.e. father’s) wives and would keep them by force. The woman was not given any portion of inheritance from her mother, father, brother, sister or husband, nor was she allowed to be the owner of anything. When the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم arrived with Islam from Allah Almighty, fortune smiled on all the mistreated women in the world.

By virtue of the blessings of Islam, the status of women who were the victims of the oppression and injustice became so high that she has been declared mercy in the form of a daughter, her feet have been compared to the threshold of Paradise in the form of mother and she has been given such a respect and status in the society which could not even be imagined in the past. In terms of acts of worship and matters, or rather in every stage of life and death, women have been given rights just like men. Hence, women have been given the right of ownership; they have been declared to be the owner of their dowry amount, properties and have been made inheritors of the inheritance left by their parents, brothers and sisters, children and husbands. (Jannati Zaywar, pp. 39-42 summarised)