The status of a woman in Islam constitutes no problem. The attitude of the Qur'an and the early Muslims bear witness to the fact that a woman is, at least, as vital to life as nab himself, and that she is not inferior to him nor is she one of the lower species. Had it not been for the impact of foreign cultures and the alien influences, this question would have never arisen among the Muslims. The status of woman was taken for granted to be equal to that of man. It was a matter of course, a matter of fact, and no one, then, considered it as a problem at all.
             In order to understand what Islam has established for women, there is no need to deplore her plight in the pre-Islamic era or in the modern world of today. Islam has given woman rights and privileges, which she has never enjoyed under other religious or constitutional systems. This can be understood when the matter is studied as a whole in comparative manner, rather than partially. The rights and responsibilities of a woman are equal to those of a man but they are not necessarily identical with them. Equality and sameness are two quite different things. This difference is understandable because man and woman are not identical but they have created equals. The status of women in Islam is something unique, something novel, something novel, and something that has no similarity in any other system.
             If we look to the Eastern Communist world or to the democratic nations, we find that women are not really in a happy position. Her status is not enviable. She has to work so hard to live, and sometimes she may be doing the same job that a man does but her wage is less than he is. She enjoys a kind of liberty that in some cases some call libertinism. To get where she would like to be, women struggled hard for decades and gave up many of their natural rights. The tone of Islam brands that women were a seed of evil and a product of the devil. The Qur'an makes it very clear that both Ad...