Spiritual Rights of Women in Islam. Dr Zakir Naik

Another Misconception is that ,Which the western media has,that 'The women has no soul'.

In fact ,it was in the seventeenth century ,when the council of wise men,when they gathered at Rome,and they unanimously agreed that the women had no soul.

In Islam .man and women have the same spiritual nature.It is mentioned in Quran,CH-4,verse 1,which says that 'O humankind reverence your Gaurdian Lord ,who has created you from a single person and created like nature his mate'.A similar thing is mentioned in Surah Nahl,Ch-16,verser-72,which says that,'we have made for you companions and mates of your own nature'.

In Surah Al-Shura,CH-42,verse-11,it says 'he is the one who has created the heavens and the earth and has made for you pairs from among yourselves'.Just because the spiritual nature of a man and woman is the same in Islam,will you call such rights in Islam as modernizing or outdated?

The Qur'an clearly mentions that ,'God has breathed somewhat of his spirit into the Human Beings'.
If you read surah hijr,ch-15,verse-29,it says,'when i have fashioned you in due proportion and have breathed into you something of my spirit,fall you down in obeisence'.

A similar thing is repeated in the Qur'an,in surah sajdah,ch-32,verse-9,which says'Then he fashioned him and breathed into him of his spirit'.Here when God refers to as 'something of my spirit ,is breathed into the human beings'it does not mean,a sort of incarnation or a pantheistic form.

It means that Allah has given to every human being something of his spiritual nature ,and the knowledge of God Almighty ,and coming closer towards him.Here it refers to both Adam and Eve .Both were breathed something of Gods Spirit.

Again we read in the Qur'an ,that Allah has appointed the Human being as his vicegerent,as His trustee ,as in mentioned in Surah Isra,ch-17,verse-70 ,which says 'we have honured the children of Adam and bestowed on them special flavours'.Note here all the children of Adam have been honoured ,male as well as female.

There are some religious scriptures ,for example the Bible,which puts the blame on Eve for the downfall of humanity.In fact if you read the Qur'an in Surah Araaf,ch-7 verse -19to 27 ,Adam and Eve are addressed ,more than a dozen of times.

Both disobeyed God ,Both asked for forgivness ,both repented and both were forgiven.

      Does Pregnancy uplift the women or Degrade?
If you read the Bible in Genesis,ch-3 ,verse no 16 ,it says that 'To the women he(God) sad :i will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing ;in pain you shall bring forth children ,yet your desire shall be for your husband,and he shall rule over you.'

That means ,pregnancy and child birth has been said in the Bible to degrade the woman and the labour pain is a sort of punishment.

In fact if you read the Qur'an ,pregnancy and child birth have uplifted the woman.

if you read surah Nisa ,ch-4 verse no 1,it says 'Respect the womb that bore you',

Its mentioned in Surah Luqman ch-31,verse -14,it says 'We have enjoyed on the human being to be kind to the parents ,in travail upon travail did their mother bore them and in years twain was their weaning'.

A similar thing is mentioned in Surah Ahqaf ch-46,verse-15 ,it again repeats which says 'we have enjoyed on the human beings to be kind to his parents'.

To be kind to the parents .in pain did their mother bore them,and in pain did she give them birth.Pregnancy in the Qura'n   has uplifted the women not degraded her.