Re: What's your Opinion : Question by a Non-Muslim man about his recently converted w
Peace Bidd3h and PyariCgudia
To set the record straight:
I and my wife see Islam as encouraging women to be educated more than it encourages men.
I think there is a great need for women doctors and my sisters are two of the most outspoken people I know. They are in their teens and they have achieved grades much earlier than their compatriots.
Women are physically weaker and no one is talking about WWF. That is an extreme example. I'm talking reality here. Men are not allowed to strike a woman in Islam but there is nothing that I have read that prevents my wife from beating me, except implicitly where it states that a wife should respect her husband.
It is the mother of the believers who were the women that are respected. And I believe my wife and inshaAllah later my sisters are/will be like them in look, attitude and behaviour.
Taliban examples are red-herrings here I'm afraid. I'm no Taliban.
To me women are more sensible than men and more capable than men a many things. I don't see men and women as equal. However, it is uncouth for a person to assume to know what I mean when I write clear enough for all to read and understand me. I am in no lowering the potential of women when I utter the obvious.
Usually men resort to physical violence because they are too stupid to compete with the wits against their female counterparts, that does not mean a woman is stronger, it means the woman is better at using her noggin than a man, she is also better at controlling her urges than a man. In fact women have been given a discrete advantage over men.
However, again Allah (SWT) has appointed man as the leader as a figurehead of the family ... because had that not been done then this world would have been Amazonian. By appointing man as head Allah (SWT) has balanced the natural advantage that women have over us.
Now ... who is there to argue with God? ... Take it up with God if you you want to modify His Laws.