Woman in Islamic Shari‘ah
5. Muslim women
~ 95 ~
stones home on your head is harder for me to
bear than that.”
84
Such instances of how women toiled during their
stay in Medina are numberless. At that time women
worked not only in their homes, but outside as well.
This was because their menfolk were so
preoccupied with preaching Islam that there was
little time left in which to discharge their household
responsibilities. It was left to the women then to
deal with both internal and external duties. They
even tended the animals, did the farming and
worked in the orchards.
84. Bukhari,
Sahih, Kitab an-Nikah,
(
Fath aI-Bari,
9/264-
265).
THE VIRTUE OF BELIEVING WOMEN
When this verse was revealed in the Qur’an —
“They who hoard up gold and silver and spend it
not in the way of God, unto them give tidings of a
painful doom”
85
— then the Prophet said: “Woe to
gold, woe to silver.” When the Companions of the
Prophet learned of this they were upset. They began
to ask one another what things they were going to
