Woman Between Islam and Western Society
5. Position of Woman in the Islamic Shari‘ah
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17 April 1986, by registered post. Having
received no reply we sent a copy of this letter to
him again on May 14, 1986, but again he did not
respond. Then, after trying several times, we
succeeded in contacting him on the telephone.
We asked for an appointment with him, so that
we could discuss this matter with him, but he
excused himself and refused to comply with our
request. Now we have no choice but to publish
this letter without his reply.
SUMMARY
God “created man’s mate from the same soul”
means simply that women are of the same species
as men. God created them that way so that there
should be harmony between the two sexes. If
men and women had been derived from different
species — if one had been made from fire, for
instance, and the other from earth — then the two
would have been unable to get on together.
Family life would have lacked peace and
harmony: men and women would have been
unable to struggle hand in hand to build a better
world.
