Meanwhile, I was reading about the status of women in Islam and here is what I found: In India, subjection was a cardinal principle. Day and night must women be held by their protectors in a state of dependence says Manu. The rule of inheritance was agnatic, that is descent traced through males to the exclusion of females. In Hindu scriptures, the description of a good wife is as follows: a woman whose mind, speech and body are kept in subjection, acquires high renown in this world, and, in the next, the same abode with her husband. In Athens, women were not better off than either the Indian or the Roman women. Athenian women were always minors, subject to some male - to their father, to their brother, or to some of their male kin. Her consent in marriage was not generally thought to be necessary and she was obliged to submit to the wishes of her parents, and receive from them her husband and her lord, even though he were stranger to her. A Roman wife was described by an historian as: a babe, a minor, a ward, a person incapable of doing or acting anything according to her own individual taste, a person continually under the tutelage and guardianship of her husband. In the Encyclopedia Britannica, we find a summary of the legal status of women in the Roman civilization: In ROMAN Law a woman was even in historic times completely dependent. If married she and her property passed into the power of her husband... the wife was the purchased property of her husband, and like a slave acquired only for his benefit. WOMEN IN ISLAM : O Mankind, keep your duty to your Lord who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate (of same kind) and from them twain has spread a multitude of men and women.... [Noble Quran 4:1] A scholar who pondered about this verse states: It is believed that there is no text, old or new, that deals with the humanity of the woman from all aspects with such amazing brevity, eloquence, depth, and originality as this divine decree. Stressing this noble and natural conception, them Quran states: He (God) it is who did create you from a single soul and therefrom did create his mate, that he might dwell with her (in love)... [Noble Quran 7:189] The Creator of heavens and earth: He has made for you pairs from among yourselves [Noble Quran 42:11]
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