Woman Between Islam and Western Society
3. Western Woman
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grain. By nature, a woman is homeloving and at
heart she is a housewife. It is, in fact, her birthright.
That is why it so frequently happens that women
celebrities, who lead artificial lives outside the
normal limits of the family, drop everything in
favour of living in solitude either somewhere in the
middle of their careers, or at the end. Where they
finally find peace of mind, after a temporary
exposure to bright city lights and glittering society,
is in their very own homes, and not in the outside
world.
What Islamic law lays down with regard to women
is protective of their true nature, and is in no way
cruel or repressive, as has been suggested by the
uninitiated. When, after experimenting with a life
and a career in the outside world, a woman finally
realizes that her place is in the home, she has
reached the point which Islam encourages every
woman of marriageable age to reach at the very
outset by way of following her natural womanly
inclinations. Islamic law is designed to steer women
away from the ordeals of the crassly competitive
and brazenly immoral world in which only men can
successfully make their way.
