hath created male and female." "3:3" Hence, malehood and femininity are verily not characteristics peculiar to human beings, but rather they be a means of existence of all beings. And as they can never be considered as a defect or evil on the part of all things, the same is true too in regard of human genera. This religious inference can be applied in the case of women in many aspects and respects.
The Quran is verily the most important source for recognition of religion, as it being an intact and uncorrupted book, to which other books and sources should be measured and judged, and accepted only when proved to be compatible and incongruous to it. For getting acquainted with the Quranic view in respect of the character of the woman, I shall put forth six questions the answers of which given in this Divine Book would portray the real personality of the woman, as follows:
Creation of the first man and woman has been described, in a storylike form, in many verses in the Quran. First Allah has apprised the angels that he was intending to place a viceroy and deputy in the earth: "And when thy Lord said unto the angles: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth..." "1:30" In other verses in surat alhijr, He said to the angels: "And remember when thy lord said unto the angels: Verily I create man of the essence of black mud fashioned into shape. So when I complete him and breathe into him My spirit, fall ye down unto him prostrating "in obeisance"." "16:28, 29" Then He taught Adam all the names concluding a covenant with him: "And He taught Adam the Names, all of them..." "1:30" "And indeed had we covenanted unto Adam before, but