wide, gain steadfastness upon our faith, and gain the company of pious people, we should attach ourselves to the religious environment of Dawat-e-Islami.

اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه, Dawat-e-Islami operates in over 80 different departments, and all of them are busy in serving Islam and spreading its message across the world. One of these departments is known as ‘New Muslim Course Department’. اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه, by the efforts of this department, the message of Islam has reached various countries of the world; many people have become Muslims. Alongside Islamic knowledge, under the supervision of this department, new Muslims are also taught about fard knowledge.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                                                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

A wife’s status in Islam

Dear Islamic brothers! Before Islam, wives were used as pledges in the same way animals and other goods were.^[1]

Amidst such a society, the light of Islam appeared in the form of our beloved master, the mercy for all creation, the Messenger of Allah صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, and his light shone like a sun rising across the world. This light not only gave women freedom from oppression and injustice, but also established the rights of women upon men. It was Islam that declared that the relationship established between a man and a woman through marriage protects half of the Iman of a man. It was Islam that established dowries for women which must be given to them by their husbands, and if her husband was to pass away, it was Islam which gave her the right of inheriting from him.

Islam not only removed all discriminatory and unfair treatment of