Praise be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds and prayers and greetings be upon His honest messenger.
Dear brothers, this study has taken me a great deal of time, and I wish it gets your appreciation by reading it. I hope also to spread it around for the overall benefit while getting God's generous reward.
Facts
Indeed, women suffered immensely; they were the victims of every regiment, and the regret of all times, represented by many pages of deprivation, springs of sadness, they were deeply wronged, profoundly exploited in an unprecedented manner.
Chapters of Shame:
It is shameful that humanity was not treating women as human beings. All past civilizations exercised various types of torture, injustice, defeat and oppression unto her.
Greeks described her as the poisoning tree, and that she is filth made of from the Satan's work, and that she is sold as a commodity.
Romans said she has no soul and, as a sort of torture they poured hot oil over her, and she was dragged down to death by horses.
Chinese described her as the painful water which takes away happiness, and that a Chinese has the right to bury his wife alive and, if he dies his family will be entitled to inherit her.
Indians described her as worse than death, hell, poison, snakes, and fire. The woman has no right to live after her husband's death and that she should be burned with him.
Persians permitted the marriage of the unmarriageable with no exception), and it became allowed for a Persian to sentence his wife to death!
Jews described her as a curse because she is the reason of seduction, and that she is dirty when in menstruation, and they permitted her father to sell her.
In Christianity: The French held a conference in 586 AD to determine if the woman can be considered as a human or not, does she have a soul or not? If yes, is it a human or an animal soul? If it is a human soul, is it on the same level or on a lower level to that of the man? They finally decided that she is a human, but she is created only to service the man. The English parliament issued a decree during Henry the 8th rein, the English King, which banned women from reading the new testament (the falsified Bible) because they are sullied (dirty ) .
Before Islam, Arabs used to hate her like death. She used to be buried alive, or thrown into a well in a very brutal manner.
Women's liberation
Allah sent Prophet Mohamed (PBUH), the mercy for all mankind. His attributes changed the face of the ugly history and shaped a new and an unprecedented life in humanity and in the entire civilization.
RE:Woman before and after Islam
by Murali krishna on Mar 15, 2007 11:20 PM Permalink
Can a Women marry more than one man like how a man can marry more than one women, according to Islam
RE:Woman before and after Islam
by Secular Indian on Mar 16, 2007 03:11 AM Permalink
How can you then explain MuhamMAD marrying a 6 year old girl when he was 53. Later he married his (ex) daughter-in-law. Here are some more points to ponder:
It is tragic to read news reports of old men marrying children in some Islamic countries, because they seek to follow the example of Muhammad who married a child. Muhammad had such an interest in fondling young girls, he criticized even the lawful marriage union of two grown adults.
Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: When I got married, Allah's Apostle said to me, "What type of lady have you married?" I replied, "I have married a matron' He said, "Why, don't you have a liking for the virgins and for fondling them?" Jabir also said: Allah's Apostle said, "Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you might play with her and she with you?' Sahih Al-Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 17.
In the classic history of "The Life of Muhammad" (Sirat Rasul Allah) by Ibn Ishaq, there is an account in which Muhammad expressed a marital interest in a crawling baby. This event seems to have occurred around the time of the Battle of of Badr which would have made Muhammad approximately 55 years old. He had married Ayesha two years earlier, when he was 53 years of age.
(Suhayli, ii. 79: In the riwaya of Yunus I. I. recorded that the apostle saw her (Ummu'lFadl) when she was a baby crawling before him and said, 'If she grows up and I am still alive I will marry her.' But he died before she grew up and Sufyan b. al-Aswad b. 'Abdu'l-Asad al-Makhzumi married her and she bore him Rizq and Lubab...1
So, Muhammad's interest in young girls extended beyond Ai'sha ('Ayesha). Why would anyone think that Muhammad's sexual interest in babies be "the timeless expression of the Will of Allah?"
RE:Woman before and after Islam
by JATIN HALDANKAR on Mar 16, 2007 11:47 AM Permalink
Islam might have liberated woman in 7th Centuary Arabia... but now we have better laws to take care of the rights of everyone (including animals),,,
Now Rafi ,Read article that How Islam,which ones liberated woman in seventh centuary Arabia from there tribal masters -- is used to exploit them in modern world..
Paul Sheehan asks why Western feminists are mute on the plight of their Islamic sisters.
--July 24, 2006
When a beautiful young woman from Somalia wrote a screenplay entitled Submission, about the treatment of women in Muslim culture, and a Dutch artist, Theo van Gogh, then made the film, Muslim fundamentalists in Holland delivered a famously spectacular review.
Van Gogh was shot eight times and his killer was apprehended while attempting to decapitate the body, just in case the message had been too subtle.
As for the screenwriter, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she was taken into police protection and moved from house to house.
The van Gogh murder, committed in 2004, lives on in Europe as an emblem and a threshold in the accumulating body of evidence and incidents of intimidation by Muslims living within Western society. In Australia, our own extreme symptom and threshold in this same trend and cultural struggle was the gang-rapes of dozens of young women by Muslim men in Sydney. Nine trials have worked through the courts so far as a result of these crimes.
In this cultural clash, the treatment of women is the most hotly contested terrain. Not just the treatment of non-Muslim women by Muslim men, but the treatment of Muslim women within Western culture. Many Muslim women live under constraints that are unacceptable to wider society. For years, a symptom of this tension, which is largely submerged, has been the distraught young women turning up at the Australian embassy in Beirut to escape forced marriages.
In the midst of this cultural and moral struggle one element has been conspicuously missing - the feminists - the authors, academics and commentators who rose to prominence as advocates of women's rights. In Australia and Europe, their response to the growing levels of sexual intimidation, harassment or suppression of women by Muslim men has either been a deafening chorus of silence, or denial and blame-shifting.
Instead, the combat has been left to journalists, and the heaviest work has been done, at great risk to themselves, by dissident women inside Islamic culture. Women such as Hirsi Ali, who, before her life in Holland became intolerable and she retreated to the United States, wrote The Caged Virgin, a book in which she comments: "Islam dominated the lives of our family %u2026 I was taught that Islam sets us apart from the rest of the world, the world of non-Muslims. They, the others, the kafirs, the unbelievers, are antisocial, impure, barbaric, not circumcised, immoral, unscrupulous, and above all, obscene; they have no respect for
RE:Woman before and after Islam
by Rationalist on Mar 16, 2007 12:05 AM Permalink
"Allah sent Prophet Mohamed (PBUH), the mercy for all mankind.!" I have one doubt.
Did Prophet carry any identity card from Allah.
If he did how do you know that it was issued by Allah himself?
These are all fake stories & prospects created to attract women who only will know reality after entering.I know Islam is very objective & does not care about the means, by hook or crook to acheive the objective.
Hinduism is a religion which worships women.
Also can you clarify then why did the so called Gods agent marry a 6 year old when he was 54.
