So we live in a sexist society. The following evidences are clear in the
world we live (the severity depends on how westernized or how far the society is
from Islam):
- The highest paid women in the world are women who dress scantily or
rather go undressed in public.
- Look at the society around you; women are regarded as sexual objects,
used as cheap attraction on advertisements.
- The more beautiful or attractive a woman is or acts towards men, the
better she is treated in the workplace.
- Female beauty is no longer held as something precious and treasured as a
pearl is protected by its shell.
- Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten,
coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
- Female beauty is open for all to see and all to criticize.
- The concept of beauty is no longer abstract to the eyes of the beholder,
much less ruled by morality. Beauty is instead restricted to a certain
physical form and those unfortunate women who are not able to conform
to this socially constructed but extremely faulty ideal, suffer greatly
Women in Islam are not ashamed to be women. To be born female
is never bad. The value of women is not merely how she looks and
behave in accordance to men (a creation), but rather a Muslim’s
excellence is marked by righteousness and obedience towards the
Creator, in adherence to Islam
Men and women are not perfect but Islam is. The closest to
perfection that one can get is by practicing Islam as closely as it was
meant to be.
*credit to: raden @ jiwang.org
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