husband behaves arrogantly like pharaoh. Constant demands are directly made from her family or through her, asking for something at one time and another thing at other time. In short, every type of oppression and injustice can be found in our homes! May these people understand these blessed verses of the Holy Quran and abstain from this evil habit.

Moreover, in 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.^[1]

Remember! Women were in a very dire state before Islam. For men, women were nothing but a toy to satisfy their carnal desires. Women would give men whatever they would earn after working hard day and night, yet cruel men would not value women, but rather they would beat them mercilessly. For trivial things, they would cut off their ear, nose, and other body parts, and sometimes would even kill them. The Arabs would even bury their daughters alive.

After the 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, forcing them to become their slave women. 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 Prophet   صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم   arrived with Islam from Allah Almighty, fortune smiled on all the mistreated women in the world.

By virtue of Islam, the status of women who were once the victims of the oppression and injustice of cruel men became so high that she was declared mercy in the form of a daughter, her feet became compared to the threshold of Paradise in the form of a mother and she was given such respect and status in the society which could not even be imagined in the past. In terms of acts of worship and dealings, 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