Is Islam tought to us from a mans perspective?

ria1328 · June 12, 2010, 3:48am

[size=1]i’ve believed in islam and practised islam all my life. but the older i grow and the more i learn, i can’t help thinking that this is a man’s world and even god meant it to be that way. to me it looks like women have many rights in islam but they are not equivalent to men. theres a long list of issues which make me really uncomfortable about islam actually, but some of them are:

if a couple get divorced, the women is entitled to pretty much nothing from the man other than the mahr. so a worst case scenario would be that a wife has pretty much no skills other than being a housewife, dedicates her life to her husband and kids and then for watever reason 15 yrs down the road the husband divorces her. so she’s left with nothing. i know islamically maybe her brother or father or uncle etc. should support her, but the case could be she has no one or in a realistic world not all relatives behave towards you as they should.

the concept of female sex slaves for men- this concept kind of just negates the whole point of marriage or intimacy between a couple. I don’t understand the fairness of men being allowed to sleep with whoever they want as long as they take financial responsibilty for them and treat them well.

i’d love to hear peoples comments and insights into this as I myself don’t know much and would like to learn more about what exactly islam has to say about such issues.
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blinks Well…For number 2, sex is haram in any shape or form before the nikah nama is signed. I don’t kow where you came up with the idea of sex slaves but…not allowed. It existed way before Islam came into the picture. The idea of sex slaves was something that came from the kafrs. It also falls under rape since it in non-consensual.

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Taken from islam-qa.com.

Here’s the full link.
Punishment for Rape in Islam - Islam Question & Answer](Punishment for Rape in Islam - Islam Question & Answer)

Even I will admit that you are very wrong in this way of thinking. The first point does not come from Islam, but from the messed up ways of thinking of various cultures that distort anything and everything to suit their own needs. If you read through hadith and the qu’uran, and go to the islam-qa site(favorite site btw) a lot of stuff will be explained to you. The scholars there(the site) are very knowledgeable and fair.