Islam and Women

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In this paper, the author describes the true Islamic perception of a woman's role, function, and position in society and points out that it is quite different than the status that many Muslim women have been relegated to in modern times.

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"Not a few Muslims have carelessly accepted and adopted the Judeo-Christian view or assumption on woman's natural weakness and inclination to error for seducing Adam to disobey God's order into eating the forbidden fruit in Paradise (al-Qaradawi). They fault her for the disgrace and the expulsion of Adam with her out of Paradise and thereon assume that she is the weaker and faultier sex and deserves her inferior status. Those who openly or secretly ascribe the total responsibility of the fall from grace to Eve or woman do not have solid ground to stand on because the prejudice is nothing more than a Biblical myth and a baseless prejudice. Allah clearly states in the Qur'an that Adam's decision was entirely his and Eve's was entirely hers as well in verse 20:121-122: "In result, they both ate of the tree ... thus did Adam disobey His Lord and fell into error. But his Lord chose for him. He turned to him, and gave him guidance." "

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