WOMAN AND
FAMILY

Here we talk about woman and family.

Woman, in Islam, is the base
and
the corner-stone in building the family, and is the beloved
heart
which overflows with the sentiments of love, mercy and
calmness.

"And of His
signs is that: He created mates for you from yourselves
that you may find rest in them, and He ordained between you love
and
mercy.

Most surely there are signs for a people who reflect.

"
Holy Qur'an
(30:21)
She is the source of tranquility, security and psychological
stability for man.

She is the center of the harmonious
get-together of
the family which protects the children from being waifs and
strays.

She is the fountain-head of affection, love and mercy for the
husband
and the children.

That is why an organized family is a must,
psychologically, socially and legally, because it is the basic
unit
for constructing the society, the state, and humanity as a
whole.

The more righteous the family and
stronger in construction, with its
members closely knit with each other, the sounder the society and
the
freer the life from crime, misery and spiritual unhappiness.

And
vise
versa, the lower the family declines morally, and the relations
among
its members deteriorate, the graver the loss and straying, and
the
deeper the feeling of strangeness, depression and loneliness.

In
this
way man may be deprived of the scent of love and the feelings
of
kindness and affection.

All psychological studies and
scientific
statistics confirm this fact, and stress that the cause of
going
astray, spread of crime and the collapse of the personalities of
the
grown ups, is the unhappiness suffered during childhood, due
to
broken-up families, or because of aimless wandering or lack of
affection and parental care.

This proves that a family is a social, psychological,
instinctive,
economic and educational necessity, and not an economic
phenomenon, as
alleged by Marxism (Communism) which advocates sexual freedom,
and
thereby destroys legal matrimonial life and ruins the family,
justifying this by its absurd philosophy interpreting wrongly
the
history and the appearance of the family and society.

It claims
that
woman took refuge in man because of an economic drive, "since she
was
weak and unable to hunt and struggle against the cruel nature,
while
man was living a free life.

So, she came to man to live with him
to
get sustenance and protection.

But in the modern era, as the woman
is
able to provide for herself and her needs without man's
assistance,
there is no need either for family or for marriage.

Both man and
woman
can satisfy their sexual desires, away from the requirements
and
responsibilities of a family and a marriage contract, exactly as
the
animals satisfy their sexual instincts".

Communism believes that the destruction of family life is a
necessary
step towards the transition to the communist society which is
based on
the ruins of the state, the religion, the family and private
possessions-a society where women become a common property
available
to ever man, as the communists allege they had been before the
appearance of family life.

This has been explicitly announced in
the
Communist Manifesto declared by Marx and Engels, the founders of
the
theory of Communism:
"To destroy the family! Even the most radical extremists feel
angry
at this shameful and vile intention of the communists.

But on
what
basis is the bourgeois family erected at present? It is erected
on
Capitalism and personal interest.

It can be found, with its full
being
and complete construction, only under the bourgeois.

But its
supplement is its inevitable cancellation in respect to the
proletariat, and then open prostitution.

The bourgeois family
is
naturally dissolved by the dissolve of its supplement, and both
the
family and its supplement dissolved by the dissolve of
Capitalism.

So, do you blame us because we aim at abolishing the exploitation
of
the children by their parents and relatives? If you do, then
we
confess this crime, accusing us of destroying the most sacred
connections and relations by our attempt to move education from
within
the family out into the society".

Here you are! Marx and Angels are quite legible in openly
demanding
the destruction of the family, severing the parental relations
between
the children and their parents, ruining the relationship ties
because
of libertinism and the absence of legitimate matrimonial
relations,
and burdening the society - that is, the state establishments -
with
the rearing of the child after its mother throws it away.

Because of this fabulous thinking, which is contrary to the law
of
nature and life, communism has failed throughout the world, and
has
started to retract.

The states advocating the application of
this
theory - the Socialist countries: China, Russia and their
Socialist
followers - began facing problems and difficulties in putting
the
theory into practice.

They encountered refusal and stiff
resistance.

No means of terror and dictatorship could force the people
under
Communist rule to accept and carry out such unnatural
practices.

It was not Communism alone that demanded sexual liberty.

In
the
capitalistic culture there appeared philosophies advocating
similar
ignorant concepts about sex, woman and marriage as those voiced
by
Communism, only these are based on a different interpretation.

Instead
of the economic interpretation presented by Marxism to explain
the
rise and development of the family, matrimonial relations and
other
human activities, Freud- the prominent psychologist in the
capitalist
culture - presented his sexual explanation' of the rise of
the
family, society and the whole human activity.

Both theories reach the same conclusion, despite their
different
starting points and distorted explanations.

Freud sees that the sexual desire is the only drive motivating
the
formation of the family and the relation between man and
woman.

In
fact, this is not the only theory in the capitalist culture
that
propagates sexual freedom, as there are other materialistic calls
and
theories advocating the same philosophy and ideas.

Thus, we see that these materialistic cultures are heading
towards
sexual libertinism, disintegrating the family structure and
undoing
its sacred bonds, and are contended with carnal satisfaction of
the
sexual needs in any available manner, even by sodomy, or with
animals,
or by some manufactured means.

Some figures and statistics in
this
respect have already been mentioned.

But the great religion of Islam sees the family as the
essential
constructive cell in the structure of the society.

It stands
on
natural creative bases, in an exactly defined system.

It is a
need
which the individual and the society cannot do without.

To destroy
the
family would mean destroying the natural law of social life.

Man is sociable by nature and is inclined to make acquaintance
with
his fellow beings, and to congregate.

There is between man and
woman a
psychological process of perfection, which is other than
satisfying a
desire.

Stopping this process would cause a feeling of
loneliness
anxiety, tension and spiritual pain, in both parties.

These
feelings
of love and longing for the other sex and ridding oneself from
their*
tormenting psychological tension, cannot be achieved by merely
satisfying the instinct, as the materialistic concepts and
libertine
theories claim.

The Glorious Qur'an illustrates these psychological principles
and
natural motives for the formation of families, by
saying:
"And of His
signs is that; He created mates for you from yourselves
that you may find rest in them, and He ordained between you love
and
mercy.

Most surely there are signs for a people who
reflect.

"
Holy Qur'an (30: 21)
"He it is Who did create you from a single being, and of the
same
(kind) did He make his mate that he might incline to
her.

.

.

"
Holy Qur'an (7: 189)
Therefore, all calls to destroy the family and emphasize the
instinctive aspect, have come to naught, by admitting their
failure,
acknowledging the greatness of the divine law, and the triviality
of
their counter directions of ignorance.

Communism, which regards the family as a phenomenon of the
bourgeois
society, and demands that it should be abolished, and does its
best to
do so, has been compelled to fall back and re-confirm the
family.

In many countries of the world in Europe, America, and the
Communist
bloc, the woman began to feel the bitterness of the kind of
life
imposed on her and longed for a family life with a husband and
children, living under the shady branches of the tree of affection
and
security.

It may be useful to give examples of these attempts as reported
by
the concerned offices.

One of these reports says:
"In Germany more than one million mothers work outside their
houses.

It was disclosed that 72% of these mothers are nervous, feel
general
weakness, complain of disorder in their blood circulation, and
of
heart attacks.

69% of them when back at home at night feel too
exhausted, because of their office work, to do any domestic work.

43%
of the mothers said that they had consulted their doctors
several
times during the year for treatment.

"
The reports confirm that a woman needs to have a family, and
longs
For a blissful marital life and its enjoyable blessings, having
already
suffered from avoiding the family, and tasting the misery of
loneliness and deprival??? from marital love, maternal affection,
and the
comfort of family life in a happy atmosphere.

The educational authorities in Scotland felt annoyed at the wave
of
marriages that "threatened" the school-mistresses from staying
at
their jobs.

It was disclosed that in 1960 they employed 1563
school-mistresses, but at the end of the year 1000 of them had
quitted
for marriage.

The authorities said that marriage was threatening
the
school system.

An institute in the USA conducted a poll among the women workers.

The
result was that 65% preferred to go back to their homes.

The
woman
thought that she attained what she had wished.

But today, having
been
exhausted and worn down by the uneven road of work, she would
rather
return back to her nest and hug her children in her
arms.

For this reason Islam enjoins marriage and the formation of
families,
strengthening its relation, and supporting its construction, since
it
is the natural environment for happiness of the individual and
the
center of his comfort and happiness.