لطفا منتظر باشید ...
WOMAN
Written by: Mahdi Mahrizi
Translated by: Hasan M. Najafi
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL,
Preamble
The Muslim woman today is restrained between two ignorances "jaahiliyyah", one being the ignorance of the 20th century, which shows a degraded portrait of the woman, and the other being the preIslamic era that looks at the woman as a being more junior and of less status than the man.
The new jaahiliyyah, with the pretext of the social activity of the woman and defending her rights, calls the woman toward unknown labyrinth. And the other ignorance, under the guise of chastity and purity, keeps the woman far from so many human perfections and virtues.
Many are of the opinion that the Muslim woman has only two alternatives before her, and she has no choice but to select one of them: either to surrender to the western debauchery or to stay secluded in her house deprived of all human perfections and sublimities.
Perusing attentively the main sources of religion "the Quran and Prophetic Sunnah" will lay before us an intermediate way, neither that seduction nor this petrifaction "tahajjur", neither that libertinism nor this seclusion.
Islam, according to genuine texts, presents a portrayal of the woman, proving her to be a human being, but not a man, as the man being also a human being but not a woman. It also divides arenas of life into two parts: human and genus. The human arena makes no difference between the woman and man, as it never recognises genus or sex, giving no consideration to femininity or masculineness, as both - male and female - are actively endeavouring in search for perfection.
But in the field of sexuality in life, the woman should be a woman, doing only womanly acts and abiding by her special necessaries and vestiges, whereas the man has to behave in this arena like a man, practising only manly acts. Identifying and
