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and regulations have been revealed and enacted all for changing and removing this abominable practice with time passage. In regard of women the same method was followed and adopted to the effect that our religion never intending to discriminate between males and females, and the aim of some of the laws and rules was to creating gradual accompaniment with the society and eradicating that habit for ever.
The Concealed Belief
All Muslims, shi''ah and sunni, boast of their history due to having virtuous and chaste women, enumerating for them distinguished characteristics from which many men are deprived.
Among these great notable ladies we can refer to: Khadijah, Fatimah"A", UmmSalamah, Zaynab, Hamidah "wife of AlImaam AsSaadiq"A", Sawsan "mother of AlImaam AlHasan AlAskari"A", Hakeemah "daughter of AlImaam AlJawaad"A" and UmmAhmad "wife of AlImaam AlKaazim"A", and others.
Fathoming and examining the biography of women will show them to be among perfectionseekers, and each having a scholastic and spiritual position in relation to the religious leaders. Rather some of them were known to have the position of succeeding an Infallible Imaam and being a spiritual trustee, depository and executor of him. 18
The question arises here being: Does the woman have any difference in essence and nature with the man, and is her human cause and background like that of the man or that the difference being not in essence and nature, but they differ in the dimension of human perfections affected by outer circumstances.
If the first case be correct, the presence of women of virtue and maturity and superior to many men, would be somehow impossible in essence and unaccepted. Then how can be there
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18. Zan Wa Payam-awari, pp. 145-238.
