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Women's Rights Blooming in Iran

Category: Culture
Written by: Faisal K (on March 05, 2008 - 05:55 AM)

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We have all by now heard the various media luminaries of the western world utter phrases like the following about the treatment of women in Islam

a) They are like cattle, hidden in floor length burkhas and forced to work all day long in their households.

b) They have no rights at all, and are forced to suffer the humiliation of polygamy, domestic abuse etc etc etc

Some of this is true, but today’s news should serve to break a few myths about islamic law and its treatment of women. In Iran today a court has ordered a Muslim man to pay his wife her due share of dowry/Mahr promised to her at the time of marriage. Now here i feel it is important for me to define to my non Muslim readers what mahr means. In Muslim culture “mahar” is an agreed upon sum in the Nikahnama “Marriage document” to the bride by the groom payable upon her demand. Usually in many cases this is only a symbolic sum and not our form of pre nups.

However a certain lady in Iran, having been promised a mahar of 124,000 roses in her “Nikah nama” has chosen to demand the said amount in full bloom as she thinks her husband has been very stingy with her throughout their ten years of marriage.

The humorous part is that the courts have upon her complaint seized the flat worth Usd 66000 belonging to her husband, until he pay her this sum in roses.

Typically a long stemmed rose costs bout USD 2 in Iran per rose. Thus we can all arrive at the end result that the groom in question is in deep shit, err petals i mean.

So what do we get from this bit of news?

“Even in Shariah law and under Islamic governments, women are protected and well aware of their rights”

“Never ever marry an Iranian women without having a trimvarte of lawyers read your Nikah Nama”

“Pray to Allah that our womenfolk here in Pakistan do not catch whiff of this”

Goes to hide his Nikahnama in a safe place!

 

 

Credits : BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7275506.stm

 

Talk-Backs:
Ammar:I would disagree to a few lines you said in the beginning faisal, you said some of this is true. On the contrary, i believe that Islam has the maximum rights for women, the way they are treated is a cultural flaw, religion should not be blamed for it!

(Posted at: 2008-03-05 21:18:24)
Reza Farishta:“Even in Shariah law and under Islamic governments, women are protected and well aware of their rights” under those government, "law" always protected women, what laked is its application, which canot be blamed on islam.( when i say those governement i dont mean all islamic republics....) “Never ever marry an Iranian women without having a trimvarte of lawyers read your Nikah Nama” This doesnt happen everyday and everywhere in iran, you cannot proclame a general truth out of a an example that happend once in a blue moon. And, its not about being an iranian or not, who ever the women is, marriage is such an important step, you have to read carefully the clauses for the wedding to be halal. “Pray to Allah that our womenfolk here in Pakistan do not catch whiff of this” This cases already happened in pakistan , its just that the governement wasnt efficient enough to apply to islamic law. We should rather pray that weddings in pakistan that are celebrated while the bride is not even aware she is married should be banned. And why shouldnt it be good for apkistan ? Its a right women have ? whts wrong with women asking it? if you say its not proper in religion even though its legal, then i guess the problem is not the law, the problelm is that youve chosen the wrong person :) . If it happend in pakistan at least we could have ben happy that ilsamic law was respected "a) They are like cattle, hidden in floor length burkhas and forced to work all day long in their households. b) They have no rights at all, and are forced to suffer the humiliation of polygamy, domestic abuse etc etc etc Some of this is true...." replying to those sentences : Most of the students in iran are women. If a women doesn't get her husband's approval, she cannot work, that has to do with Islamic laws whether the couple lives in iran or U.S. To conclude, alongside these laws, Islam has made its criterias for weddings quite clear: Faith, personality, social status, looks .... The laws about weddings can only be criticized after having read what Islam says about choosing a bride or a groom. We just cannot talk about a building falling when its foundation where not made according to the laws you decided to live your life upon

(Posted at: 2008-03-06 01:22:06)
Faisal.k:@ Ammar In Islam women do not have the same rights as men.. when it comes to inheritance or other issues, they are often referred to as the gentler and meeker sex. I shall quote an example. If a married Muslim is faithful to his wife he is supposed to get 99hooris when he goes up there, and if a Muslim women if she does the same with her husband get her husband back in jannah. Explain to me how this is fair? just for the sake of discussion. I do agree with you on the cultural implementation part though. @ Reza I was kidding in those last three lines

(Posted at: 2008-03-06 02:04:50)
Reza Farishta: If a married Muslim is faithful to his wife he is supposed to get 99hooris when he goes up there, and if a Muslim women if she does the same with her husband get her husband back in jannah that shows how much valuable women are to god. Satisfy one, and you get 99 hourris. Besides, islam prones complementarity which is far beyond equality. Science proves that man and women arent equal. We are genetically different, we have different needs, we have different hormonal systems, and we have different physical capabilities. Now you quoted 2 examples and then you say that islam doesnt give proper rights to women. I give you to 2 examples that can make you think the other way. 1) God has given the privilege of givin life to women. Because of motherhood itself, women cannot be compared to men. 2) Jannat lies under your mother's feet . do you wonder why ? 3) whether you are shia or sunni, hadeeth e saqlain staes that nabi allah peace be upon him said that i am leavin 2 things to you my ummah, the quran and my sunnah , or the quran and my ahl el beyt. In both cases, whether the sunnah or the alh el beyt, just see how respected women were. Go and read how the prophet behaved with women. If yuor a sunni you know that quran is not enough , many laws are not mentionned in the quran then you might have to refer to the "sunnah". If your a shia you just have to refer to the adequate hadeeths 4) Before statin such statement, go and read, most of the things that happen against women in islamic staes are not accordin to islam Sit back and think, which is the most sensible theory, complementarity or equality ? which one gets the closer to our nature ? I suggest you to read the rights of women in islam by M.Motahari, or read the hadeeth that stae how the prophet behaved with bibi khateejah or bibi fatemah. If the religion he brought was to deny women's intellectual right, why did he tell bibi khateejah the first about revelation ? I would have prefered you askin questions to those who know before postin such posts. Read before posting, your talking about islam, the religion that brought rights for women, that delivers women from its "etiquette" of beeing a sexual tool. please refer http://www.al-islam.org/WomanRights/

(Posted at: 2008-03-09 23:09:03)
shabz:men n women shud be treated equally.man shud be gentle 2 his wife n she shud be respectful 2 her husband

(Posted at: 2008-06-05 19:49:36)

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