Muslim society over the centuries has treated women as second class It's been this way since the beginning of time. Women are treated inthis manor for a number of reasons, but all leading back to the Quran. Womenare considered inferior to men, are treated unfairly in marriage, and even areoppressed legally, but all are approved of in the Quran. It describes in detailthe way that a women is to be treated and the way a women should treat herhusband.The Quran expresses the equality of the sexes in the following. "Andtheir Lord answereth them, `I will not suffer the work of him among you thatworketh, whether of male or female, to be lost. the one of you is the issue ofthe other."(Q 3:195) So while the Qur`an holds the works of men and women inequal regard and acknowledges that they are completely interdependent to theirvery existence, They are not regarded as having equal worth as people. The factthat men are a step above the women and superior to them is evident in thefollowing verses. "And it is for the women to act as they (the husbands) act bythem, in all fairness; but the men are a step above them."(Q 2:228) "Men haveauthority over women because Allah has made the one superior to theother."(Q4:34) Women are thought of as being lower in intellect and spiritualsin comparison to men. In the Quran it states, "And of His signs is that Hecreated for you, of yourselves, spouses, that you may repose in them."(Q 30"21)This causes many Muslims to look at women as creations like the animals andplants and other useful things created by Allah. Muslims believe that women arelacking many of the traits that men possess. The believe that women are lackinggratitude as well as intelligence. The Hadith speaks of this subject saying,"Women are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favours andthe good (charitable) deeds done to them. If you have always been good(benevolent) to one of them and then she sees something in you (...
