As salamu alaikum wa rahmathullah wa barakathu.
I know I am slaking in my posting please do not run out of patiences with me. Slowly but surely it will be a consistent and time tabled blog and not just something I do on the side to improve my deen.
So continuing from the previous post, I would like to talk about the equity that is between men and women in the sight of Allah. How we are all equal to Allah and different on accounts of our iman (piety).
In the midst of he darkness that engulfed the world, divine revelation echoed in the wide desert of Arabia in the seventh century with a fresh, noble, and universal message to humanity.
According to the Holy Qur'an, men and womn have the same human spiritual nature:
"O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it it's mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women..."(4:1) also see (7:189, 42:11, 16:72, 15:29)
The Qur'an does not blame women for the "fall of man", nor doesn't view pregnancy and childbirth as punishments for "eating from the forbidden tree." on the contrary, the Qur'an depicts Adam and Eve as equally responsible for their sin in the Garden, never singling out Eve for blame. Both repented, and both were forgiven (2:36-37 and 7:19-27).
In fact, in one verse (20:121) Adam specifically was blamed. The Qur'an also esteems pregnancy and childbirth as sufficient reason for the love and respect due to mothers from their children. (31:14 and 46:15)
Men and women have the same religious and moral duties and responsibilities. Each human being shall face the consequences of his or her deeds.
"And their Lord responded to them (saying): Never will I allow to be lost the work of (any) worker among you, whether make or female; you are of one another..." (3:195) Also see 74:38, 16:97, 4:124, 33:35, and 57:12
The Qur'an is quite clear about the issue of the claimed superiority or inferiority of any human, male or female. The sole basis for superiority of any person over another is piety and righteousness not gender, colour, or nationality (49:13).
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