QURAN EQUALIZED WOMEN TO MEN
The Islamic Egyptian famous thinker Gamal al-Banna, (died 2013) author of “The Muslim women between the Quran liberty and the restriction of scholars” wherein he showed that women are equalized to men in Quran. He also stated that
- Islam has given the women the right of ownership & inheritance & financial independence many centuries before the European women revolt to obtain this right
- Regarding the inheritance inequality share , well, Islam has enacted that the men pay dowry & financially support their families & wives & pay alimony & compensation to women in case of divorce , & this encounters the inheritance inequality, nevertheless Quran allowed the bequeather to reallocate his wealth so as to let his daughters inheritance equal or even exceed his sons inheritance in his will)
- Also, Islam did not at all prevent the women from any work or holding any superior position or rank , & Quran states that the criteria for employment is the efficiency & capability regardless of race/sex citing the exemplary Queen “Balkis” of Saba’a(Yemen) , who was a superior ruling queen , who then married king “Solomon “
See Quran verses below equating women to men
9;71 وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتُ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ ۚ يَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَيُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ وَيُطِيعُونَ اللَّـهَ وَرَسُولَهُ ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ سَيَرْحَمُهُمُ اللَّـهُ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّـهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ
translation ‘The believing men and believing women are allies of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and establish prayer and give zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. Those – Allah will have mercy upon them. Indeed, Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.’—-
- 16;97مَنْ عَمِلَ صَالِحًا مِّن ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنثَىٰ وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ فَلَنُحْيِيَنَّهُ حَيَاةً طَيِّبَةً ۖ وَلَنَجْزِيَنَّهُمْ أَجْرَهُم بِأَحْسَنِ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
translation “ Whoever does righteousness, whether male or female, while he is a believer – We will surely cause him to live a good life, and We will surely give them their reward [in the Hereafter] according to the best of what they used to do.”——
- 3;195 فَاسْتَجَابَ لَهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ أَنِّي لَا أُضِيعُ عَمَلَ عَامِلٍ مِّنكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنثَىٰ ۖ بَعْضُكُم مِّن بَعْضٍ
translation “And their Lord responded to them, “Never will I allow to be lost the work of [any] worker among you, whether male or female; you are of one another.’—-
- 33;35 إِنَّ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَالْمُسْلِمَاتِ وَالْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَالْقَانِتِينَ وَالْقَانِتَاتِ وَالصَّادِقِينَ وَالصَّادِقَاتِ وَالصَّابِرِينَ وَالصَّابِرَاتِ وَالْخَاشِعِينَ وَالْخَاشِعَاتِ وَالْمُتَصَدِّقِينَ وَالْمُتَصَدِّقَاتِ وَالصَّائِمِينَ وَالصَّائِمَاتِ وَالْحَافِظِينَ فُرُوجَهُمْ وَالْحَافِظَاتِ وَالذَّاكِرِينَ اللَّـهَ كَثِيرًا وَالذَّاكِرَاتِ أَعَدَّ اللَّـهُ لَهُم مَّغْفِرَةً وَأَجْرًا عَظِيمًا
translation”Indeed, the Muslim men and Muslim women, the believing men and believing women, the obedient men and obedient women, the truthful men and truthful women, the patient men and patient women, the humble men and humble women, the charitable men and charitable women, the fasting men and fasting women, the men who guard their private parts and the women who do so, and the men who remember Allah often and the women who do so – for them Allah has prepared forgiveness and a great reward.”—-
- 49;13 يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّـهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّـهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ
translation “ O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.’——-
- 2;228 وَلَهُنَّ مِثْلُ الَّذِي عَلَيْهِنَّ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ ۚ وَلِلرِّجَالِ عَلَيْهِنَّ دَرَجَةٌ
translation “And due to the wives is similar to what is expected of them, according to what is reasonable. But the men have a degree over them [in responsibility and supporting]“———-. This degree refers to the responsibility of men towards women by supporting them & this is because the man is physically created having more muscular body & strength & size than the woman , thus he is supposed to support & give aid to the woman
Also late Sheikh Al Azhar “Mahmoud shaltout’ cited the incident of the separate women allegiance to the prophet without the company of their male relatives or husbands was to prove that the women in Islam have an independent entity & are responsible for themselves & their choices & decisions
- Also Quran has absolved & venerated “ Eve “ in the case of the expulsion of herself & Adam from heaven , whereby some historical interpretations of holy books have attributed the expulsion from heaven to ‘Eve’ , whilst the Quran has clearly stated that it was a common mistake between Adam & Eve, with Adam even more wrongful than Eve , see
2;36 فَأَزَلَّهُمَا الشَّيْطَانُ عَنْهَا فَأَخْرَجَهُمَا مِمَّا كَانَا فِيهِ
translation “ But Satan caused them to slip out of it and removed them from that [condition] in which they had been”——&
20;121 وَعَصَىٰ آدَمُ رَبَّهُ فَغَوَىٰ
translation “. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred”——