Islamic laws are perfect on family matters. Family issues are dealt in accordance with the biological, health and social considerations of all members of the family and society.
Dr. Javed Jamil | Clarion India
THE New World Order’s crimes against womanhood are numerous and massive:
1. In order to make use of them for the benefit of the market, women were ravished from homes and their safe environs;
2. To help the market, like all human beings, women too were treated as commercial beings rather than human beings;
3. In order to earn business through them, only their work in the market was recognised; their work at home was demeaned, in fact totally devalued;
4. In order to keep their fragrance fresh for the sake of the people, their natural biological functions were brutally assaulted;
5. They were made party to their own misuse in the market through popularisation of the most life-threatening and destructive concept of “freedom”;
6. Conditions were created in the market that resulted in violence against women, rape being the most devastating;
7. They were made party to the destruction of their own blood through abortion;
8. They were exhorted to dress or undress for the benefit of as many males as possible;
9. Their physical services were sold in the open market;
10. They were forced to pass majority of their time without the company of their children;
11. From spouses with rights they were turned partners without rights;
12. In order to make them vulnerable to market pressures, they were made addicts of alcohol, smoking and gambling; and
13. They were made receptionists, models, air hostesses, service girls, actresses, cabaret dancers, call girls, sex workers and massage girls in as many (maybe greater) numbers than scientists, politicians, teachers and other respectable professionals.
In short, their so-called freedom was in fact freedom for men and male-dominated market to enjoy and exploit them. It is clear that the modern approach towards family is based on two economic theories of the current world: Westernism (Capitalism) and Communism. Both these ideologies have nothing to do with religious morality and are enemies of family system. The difference between the Islamic and modern approach can be described as under
1. In modernism, family issues are dealt in a way so as to benefit the modern economic model with market as the pivot; in Islam family issues are dealt in accordance with the biological, health and social considerations of all members of the family and society.
2. In modern society, family in its traditional form is considered an enemy because a healthy family system is an impediment in the growth of several markets: sex market, fashion market, hoteling, alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc. In Islam, family is the pivot of social peace; and family is considered a citadel which protects men and women against unhealthy sexual practices and exploitation, protects women against the burden associated with her biological functions, and protects children against neglect and abuse, providing them the most harmonious atmosphere for growth. It also provides huge protection against a variety of diseases;
3. In the modern world a woman can become a prostitute, an unmarried sex partner, an unwed mother, a single parent (with all responsibilities falling on her shoulders); in Islam, there is protection against all of these (with spouses sharing her physical burden and responsible for economic burden);
4. In Islam, rights of men and women are based on their biological roles and social responsibilities towards each other and towards children; in modernism, they are given rights in accordance with the demands of the market;
5. Modern systems allow premarital relationships but ban legal marriage before a specified age, which is several years greater than the biological age of adulthood; in Islam, there is no scope for premarital sex; but men and women are allowed marriage after they attain biological adulthood, though mental and financial maturity are preferable. Children born out of premarital relationships are aborted in majority of cases, and when they are born, they have to grow in the company of only a single parent. They suffer huge psychological pressures and their legal rights over fathers are hardly realised.
6. Modern systems allow promiscuity with no legal ban whatsoever on men and women having multiple partners; but there is total ban on polygamy. In Islam, there is absolutely no room for promiscuity or any relationship outside a legal marriage, but allows restricted polygamy with women enjoying full medical, legal and social rights. Children are of course safe and secure with each one enjoying all social and legal rights over their parents.
7. In modernism, in the name of financial liberty and freedom, women are being overburdened with work where they have to work making serious comprises with their family life, children being the greatest sufferers. In Islam, while women have the freedom to earn if they so wish, the responsibility of maintaining them and their children is of their husbands. As the role of husbands in reproduction is limited to a few minutes of sexual contact and the women have to bear the responsibility of keeping children in their wombs, then delivering, breastfeeding and nurturing, they have been exempted from the responsibility of earning. But there is absolutely no ban on them if they want to earn within the parameters of Islam. The rights of men and women in inheritance are also proportional to their financial responsibilities.
8. While modernism only allows addictions (alcohol, drugs), making women in large number of cases the victims, in Islam they are totally banned, which provides additional protection to women.
Dr. Javed Jamil is an India-based thinker and writer with over 20 books to his credit. He can be contacted at doctorforu123@yahoo.com
