Bismillah..hello~just wanna share my assignment for UI(understanding Islam)..This subject actually a university requirement.. :)Hope u enjoy reading ^_^
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Based on the article I had analyzed which
wrote by Dr. Zakir Naik, it was an overview of women’s economic rights in Islam. Islam
recognized rights of adult women before the West did. A woman in Islam can own
her property without a control or approval of anyone. These rights undergo no
change when she gets married, and she retains her full rights in buying,
selling, and mortgage, as well as in the signing of contracts for rent,
enterprise, etc.
In Islam, women can work in any field she like
according to sharia limit and getting an equal pay if she does the same job as
men. Verse 4:32
in Quran emphasizes the equality of men and women in the economic growth of a
society. “Men shall have a benefit
from what they earn, and women shall have a benefit from what they earn.
(4:32)”. This is an option of
flexibility in Islam toward women.
If she married she should take her
husband’s permission if she want to work. Women should not work that exhibiting
her beauty or body. We can look the justice in Islam toward women as most jobs
forbidden to women are also forbidden to men. Actually, Islamic society really
need women to work as professionals to fulfill the fardhu kifayah(collective
obligatory). Therefore, the rights and vanity of women will be protected.
Women have no financial obligations in Islam.
No one can force her to work and if she want to work it fully in her own free
will. It is the duty of the man in the
family take care of women in the family and even after she married, the duty
fall on her husband or son. She entitles full support in any condition. The
Quran states: "Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made
some of them to excel others and because they spend of their wealth (for the
support of women)." (4:34)
A
woman is also entitled to a marital gift(Mehr) during marriage from the
husband. The dowry is specially own by her and she can do it anything lawful
with it. Its clearly stated in Surah Nisa verse 34 that a man must give dowry
to her wife. But a woman do not have to give dowry to her husband and the
husband has no right to ask for dowry from woman. This subject of dowry in
Islam is just opposite of the Hindu culture did where the man can demand dowry
from the woman’s family according to his economic condition.
The
woman is entitled also to full financial support during marriage and during the
waiting period in case of divorce or widowhood. If she has any child she is
entitled to child support from the child’s father even she is rich. In the laws of inheritance, which afford the male, in
most cases, twice the inheritance of a female, but no offense as according what
I had elaborated before show women have less responsibilities.
It can be concluded that a woman are fully in
the care of adult male in every phase of her life. In any condition there are
certain financial guaranties for her.King Hussein 1 said “I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have
the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help
shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally
intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam." Women in Islam
have the rights in economy in line with the sharia. I ended this article
analysis with a verse from surah Taubah [9:71] “..the Believers, men and women,
are protectors one of another”.
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