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Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil
The third social activity that the Quran attributed to women being to enjoin good and forbid evil "alamr bil ma'ruf wannahy anilmunkar".
It is known that bidding to decent deeds and forbidding from indecent acts being one of social duties with which Islam charged every mature man and woman. Eleven verses are revealed in the Quran talking about this religious duty and rule, as a kind of social guardianship that the believers have over each other. In the following verse this duty is introduced as a common obligation on women and men:
"And the believer men and the believer women they are guardians to one another; they enjoin good and forbid evil and they establish "the regular" prayer and pay the poorrate and obey God and His Apostle "Mohammed". These, God will bestow on them His mercy; verily God is AllMighty, AllWise." "9:71"
This verse indicates that the Islamic society enjoys one and the same identity, which cannot be disintegrated by masculinity and femininity. Within this group, having one identity, every individual has guardianship over the other. Hence, they should all undertake and commit themselves to perform this duty and Divine charge.
Ownership
The holy Quran confirms doing business and exerting efforts on part of women and men for earning living, arranging and establishing their right of ownership over what they have earned.
"Unto men a fortune from that which they have earned, and unto women a fortune from that which they have earned." "4:32"
In this verse, both earning the living and ownership for woman and man have been spoken out. And it separated between women and men for the only reason to dismiss the
wrong notion and view which confines and distinguishes ownership, earning and economical labour for men alone.
It is to be noted that no evidence is there in the verse indicating that what is intended by earning and business being only intellectual and moral practices. On this basis, the exegetes gave three probabilities for this verse: wages and labour remuneration, economical earning and activity, and inheritance. 118 Some others gave only two interpretations: wages and remuneration for work, and inheritance. 119
Performing EconomicSocial Activities
The holy Quran refers to daughters of Shu'ayb in state of performing economicsocial activities, reiterating their modesty during work. In the following verses, the connection between women and men can be clearly seen:
"And when he arrived at the water of Madyan, he found on it a group of men "watering their flocks" and found he besides them two women keeping back "their flocks"; Said "Moses": "What aileth you?" Said the two "women": "We cannot water until the shepherds take away "their sheep from the water", and our father is very old. So he watered "their flocks" for them, then retired he unto the shade, "and" then said he: "O my Lord! Verily of what Thou hast sent down unto me of the good, I stand in need." Then came unto him one of the two women walking bashfully; Said she: "Verily my father calleth thee so that he may recompense thee for what thou hath watered for us. So when came he unto him and narrated unto him his story, said he "the old man": "Fear thou not, thou art "now" secure from the unjust people." Said one of the two women: "O my father! Employ him, verily the best of those who thou canst employ is the strong "man" the trusted "one"." "28:2326"
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118. Fath Al-Baari, vol. XI, p. 345
119. At-Tahreer Wat-Tanweer, vol. V, p. 32.
