Woman Between Islam and Western Society
6. The Rights of Husband and Wife
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and placed on a stable basis. And for such
organization, there is no better solution, than
marriage. The human way is the way of marriage:
free mixing is inhuman.
LIFE PARTNER
What fundamentally determines the rights and
duties of men and women in the roles of husbands
and wives is the fact that they are partners for life.
This basic principle is derived from the verse of the
Qur’an which says that men and women are part of
one another.
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In this respect the difference between the tenets of
modern civilization and the rulings of the
shari’ah
is
that, the former hold men and women to be equals,
while the latter hold men and women to be lifelong
partners.
It is this difference which shows that the two
systems are poles apart.
A RELIGION OF NATURE
Islam being a religion of nature, its teachings are
based on simple ‘principles of nature. When these
