Woman Between Islam and Western Society
3. Western Woman
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like saying that fish, like goats, should be able to
produce milk, and then, when, in spite of every
encouragement the fish fails to produce milk,
proclaiming that one will create, with the help of
medical science, a new strain of milk producing
fish. Exactly like goats.
If, one fine day, it occurred to a doctor that the
mouth should be situated not on the face but on the
stomach, and he thereupon set about removing the
mouth from the face, the world would ridicule his
foolishness, for the places which nature has allotted
to-the various physical features are unalterable. Our
successful control of them depends upon our
dealing with them as they are, and not in
attempting to reshuffle them to suit man-made
concepts.
This fanciful repositioning of women in society is
rather like trying to juggle with the unalterable
features of the human physiognomy. Similarly,
when modern civilization began to draw up a new
map of life, one of its features was to bring about
complete equality between man and woman. The
whole family and social structure had to be turned
