Did you know?
The Koran is the ONLY text on which a religion is based, that contains this statement (and predates women’s rights movements): “AND FOR WOMEN ARE RIGHTS EQUAL TO THE RIGHT AGAINST THEM IN WHAT IS JUST..” There is no religious book, not even the constitution of the United States, which states explicitly like the Koran,
“And for women are rights equal to the rights against them in what is just (2:28).”
Did you know that, Islam based on the Koran [which is very different to the Islam that Muslim masses believe in], gave women the right to property ownership and a voice in legal testimony centuries before such “revolutionary” ideas were even dreamed of by Christian Europe or the New World?Did you ever imagine that,Islam has never had a problem with women in authority. Even in modern days, Muslim lands have seen female heads of states. We have yet to see a woman president in the United States?Maybe you don’t know that:
Men and women are of equal human status in the Koran (Koran 3:195), however Christian doctrine on which the early American societies were based, had Biblical norms which hold that a woman is subordinate to a man (1 Corinthians 14:34) and are created for man (1 Timothy 2:11)
IS POLYGAMY YOUR VIEW OF ISLAM?
The Koran severely restricted the open practice of Polygamy in society. Surprised? Amazed? The ONLY major “religious” book that states, “… Then MARRY ONLY ONE (Koran 4:3),” is the Koran. The Bible doesn’t prescribe monogamy. All through the Old and New Testament, Polygamy was the practice and laws are constructed assuming polygamous marriage. “If he take him another wife her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish (Exodus 2:10- The Bible).” Did they ever tell you?
The early Lutheran Church in Germany, particularly the city of Munster proclaimed polygamy (polygyny) as the “ideal form of marriage” ( Cairncross 1974:1).
You didn’t expect that:
The Koran restricted the practice of Polygamy and suggests MONOGAMY as the ONLY acceptable form of marriage for Society in general.
Polygamy is only encouraged by the Koran where it concerns “oppressed or the orphans among women (4:3)”, if justice can be done by marrying more than one. If justice cannot be done by marrying more than one from among the “oppressed (Yatama)” class of women, then the Koran suggests monogamy as the ONLY acceptable marriage bond in Islam. “…THEN MARRY ONLY ONE! (Qur’an 4:3).”You didn’t expect that:
The Koran restricted the practice of Polygamy and suggests MONOGAMY as the ONLY acceptable form of marriage for Society in general.
Polygamy is only encouraged by the Koran where it concerns “oppressed or the orphans among women (4:3)”, if justice can be done by marrying more than one. If justice cannot be done by marrying more than one from among the “oppressed (Yatama)” class of women, then the Koran suggests monogamy as the ONLY acceptable marriage bond in Islam. “…THEN MARRY ONLY ONE! (Qur’an 4:3).”