Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) set the Reforms for Women's Rights

Women’s Rights

Before the Islamic society establishment, many tribes burn their girls after their burn to balance their ‘infamy.’ The many reforms which the Prophet  Muhammad (SAW) institute in the 7th century integrated the end of ‘honor’ killings, the right of a woman’s approval in her marriage, her right for education , health, her right to ownership of private property, to seek unilateral divorce if the husband was abusive and to re-marry as a widow or divorcee. Some of these rights did not exist  before the Islam. Moreover, as the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) taught, while a husband was supposed to provide for his wife, the wife was under no obligation to share her wealth or property with the husband.

Critics point out cruelties in Muslim societies today where women are forced to veil or to marry abusive husbands. Ironically, the violence against women today is exactly the same as the one which the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) finish in His culture. While many Islamic injunctions on female modesty are voluntary or personal, when they are enforced by law as they become a violation of “there is no compulsion in religion” . Moreover, the Quranic order in the Holy Quran that when a woman testifies in financial matters, she should have a female aide at her side  is misinterpreted to imply that a woman’s testimony is half of a man in all cases. Often women have no recourse to justice in cases of rape where they are usually punished for ‘adultery.’ This is itself contrary to Quranic commandment  which prescribes a corporal punishment for those who try to destroy the reputation of women by false accusations.