Earlier according to research and studies, the rate of women abuse was higher in poorer countries where there was a bad situation of economy, inflation and illiteracy. Women in poorer countries called this abuse as justified; according to their traditions and hinking, they consider this abuse as right of men and their husbands. And in most cases they don’t file any case or seek for any help.

But with the passage of time, there are many reports of sexual and physical harassment and many of them have been justified by the nation’s Supreme Court. These days not only in poor countries but also in Europe cases of women abuse are increasing. The abuse act includes being choked, mocking, hits by fists, burn caused by throwing acids, being dragged against nail of the beds or walkway or being thrown in front of vicious trained dogs. There have been reports of abuse by partners during the stage of pregnancy.

Women abuse is happening daily despite the respect of age, culture, ethnic group, racial orientation, religion and marital status.
According to Europe, research women within the age limit of 18 to 25 have been reported to abuse the most by their male partners or strangers. The reasons why women are being so much abused by their men are many. However, the major and the main reasons are stress, depression, psychological illness and tension.

Many international communities have raised their voices against women abuse and many laws have been applied. Many social activists are helping abused women to overcome their trauma. Abused women undergo depression and psychological stress. The first 3 to 5 months are very difficult and dangerous for them but they eventually cope up.

To help an abused woman, one can take psychological therapy classes, involve them with physical and social activities and get them in therapy session with dogs. Therapy sessions will help the abused women to let out her inner feeling, grieve, sorrows and fear. Social activities will help her in moving with her life, getting her mind busy, meeting new people, and building confidence.

Dogs or other pets have proved to be very a good therapy for abused women. They have completely changed their lives after their trauma. The women should have equal rights in the whole world. It is a serious offense and crime to beat any women. United nation should create some rules for the protection and rights of women in the world.

In the west, many people have the wrong concept that women of the east or those following the religion Islam have no rights. They say that most women are abused in this region and suffer a lot. They say that most Muslim women are uneducated; when they are pregnant, they do all heavy chores and suffer harsh treatment from their dominant husbands.

In reality this is not true, western media have covered this topic very badly, they have mixed the cultural attitudes and religion in the wrong way.The Women’s rights movement started in the 20th century but in reality, it started in the 7th century by Prophet Muhammad Sallalaho Alayhi Wasalam. Quran and Hadith guarantees right of every woman. These rights are almost equal to men but with some differences. In Islam, women and men equally recognize the creator of humankind.

By this partnership, both have equal rights and shares.

Allah Subhana Wa Taallah has made women equal to men as quoted in the Quran:

“OH Mankind! Be careful of your duties to your Lord Who created you from a single soul and from it its mate and from them both have spread abroad a multitude of men and women. Be careful if thou duty toward Allah Subhana Wa Taallah in Whom thou claim your rights of one another, and toward the wombs that bore you. Allah Subhana Wa Taallah has been a watcher over you”

According to Prophet Muhammad Sallalaho Alayhi Wasalam it is the right of every woman and man to acquire education equally.

Islam grants women freedom of choice, rights and expressions.

Prophet Muhammad Sallalaho Alayhi Wasalam encouraged them to contribute their opinions, ideas and thinking regarding religion, social matters, political matters and economical matters. Women got their right to vote 1400 years ago, and they had the right to be select the leader and to be the leader. If we look back in historical times, then women accompanied men during wars.

They helped to fight, to take care of wounded soldiers, bringing them food and serving them. They were not interred behind bars and for those women who were Prophet Muhammad Sallalaho Alayhi Wasalam freed them all. The extremist groups such as the Taliban and Al Qaeda have created this bad image of rights of Muslim women.

Those people who claim about Muslim women not having equal rights then they can read the Quran and the books containing Prophet Sallalaho Alayhi Wasalam’s Hadith. Women are most respectful and precious according to faith of Islam religion. Therefore, women receive immense respect and honor in Islamic countries.

Egyptian Muslim women gather to pray under a statue of the late Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum as they celebrate Eid al-Adha on the main street of the Nile Delta city of Mansoura.

A typical Islamic marriage, one in which Islamic rules are being observed, is a symbol of love and unity. Islam prohibits dowry being obtained from the parents of the bride. The man is responsible for all the expenses. Islamic wedding parties are supposed to be attended by close family members and friends of the boy and the girl. This ceremony is supposed to be a simple one instead of being very pompous or elaborate.

Parents of the girl are to give only the essentials to their daughter. Hence it puts no economic or social pressure on them. This is different to Western traditions, where the bride’s parents are supposed to provide her with a dowry, as well as pay for the wedding.

Islam gives equal rights to man and woman. A woman has the right to file a divorce case under Islamic laws. Islam gives ultimate freedom to women by declaring that if a woman does not like her husband for some reason, she can get a divorce without further delay. A man is entitled to the same consideration.

A Muslim man is responsible for earning for the household. He is bound by Islamic law to keep his wife happy and comfortable otherwise the woman has the right to leave him. Again this varies greatly from the Westerner, who technically has to provide for the woman, but all too often does not. The Islamic system also propagates a separate family setup in which husband and wife are allowed to have personal privacy. In the Islam world, the husband has to be just in his relationship with his woman. This is despite the fact that Islam allows the man to marry four times but he must seek the first woman’s permission for it. It is allowed only if the man is capable of being just to all of them. In the Western world, this is forbidden and punishable in a court-of-law if the law of monogamy is broken.

Giving man and woman equal rights and conferring equal duties shows that Islam wants a house to be an institute where living together is not a compulsion. Living together should arise out of love and not be a compromise. Islam believes in love and pursues this aim in every walk of life with ultimate determination.

The human race in general is the victim of the hawkish changes that this particular incident has brought. 9/11 attacks as well as the US/North waged “War on Terror” are both manmade disasters. They have significantly affected ‘man’ too. Although man in general is biggest sufferer in this backlash of the north, Islam is the one that has come under severe criticism ever since. The credit for the portrayal of Islam as a religion of terrorism and hatred goes to world media.

Islam is being portrayed vehemently as a religion of hatred and violence after Al-Qaeda took responsibility for the attacks. The religion of one man or organization has led to a worldwide defaming of an entire religion. Although the world media cannot be held responsible solely for this trend, yet they have really turned and tuned the masses against Islam worldwide. The role of media is to put the facts before the viewer and not to take sides in crucial times like these.

Instead of investigating the case of Islam as an instigator, Media has been molding public opinion against Islam with a dangerous authenticity. Every aspect of Islam is under the scrutiny of media. Media has been judging the religion without true knowledge and analysis of Islam. Quite surprisingly they have been seeing Islam from the same angle as terrorists- jihad and dictatorship. How are they any different then?

When it comes to faulty criticism, one case is that of ‘Veil or Hijab’. Veil is being worn by Muslim women in accordance with Quranic rule to prevent unnecessary attention that might endanger a woman’s security.

It does not reduce the importance of women in society or does not take away their political/ fundamental rights. However it is being presented in media as a tool for abolishing women’s status as an equal human being. A veil does not make a woman an inferior being as is portrayed by media. This portrayal is done on the basis of wrong analysis of human history and modified political facts.

Every precious object or whatever that you hold important in life is kept under a strict watch. Let’s say, woman is the most precious person in form of wife, mother, daughter or sister. Nobody would like their beloved women to be hurt or harmed. They would protect them. Same way for a woman her modesty is far more precious than anything in her life.

She protects her modesty and wishes to keep it safe. Let’s say if a woman is dressed up in a sexy outfit and goes to church. No one would pray but start staring at her because it is human nature to look at the unexpected. Islam only educates the females about their sense of duty and their sense of keeping their modesty intact and safe.

They are given a dress code and that is to protect them from evil gazers and those who are not her mehrum or relations. A woman feels protected and safe when veiled. It is her basic right so nobody should take that away from her. To show or not to show is entirely a person’s decision and it should not be subjugated in the name of religion.

Because of the standard principles of the Islamic jurisprudence, any Muslim Woman enjoys exactly the same capacity plus freedom enjoyed by any man. She may also propose to the man for marriage by mouth or even in writing, she could freely choose her partner, reject the suitor she doesn’t like or get divorce from the estranged husband in opposition to his will. However, a man relative normally formalizes any marriage contract and also marriage dissolution and divorce on a female’s initiative is just granted by the judge.

A wife might have anything creed of scriptural religious beliefs on variance with the Muslim Husband without the compulsion. She could and should obtain any kind of education without any kind of limit or hindrance. It’s reported that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) strongly recommended the best education of girls. Anyone from among the folks of the scriptures which believed in his Prophet and in Prophet Muhammad the slave whom endeavors to fulfill his obligation towards Allah as well his experts along with those who have a slave girl as well as strove to teach her and also educate her well and also then provides her freedom plus marries her. It’s worthy of take note that females have been attending a general assemblies for studying held by Prophet.

Consequently, women are permitted to complete freedom of expression from their proper opinions in order that those to progress on their juristic views with venture their views within the existence of the Prophet. Therefore, she is capable to own property with dispose of this in any manner because the Islam generally offers an equitable plus fair role for females in the monetary life of the Muslim society. Within an Islamic society, females participate in any appointment of counseling as well as control officers accountable for the public matters of society by the procedure of consultation. Any woman is fairly entitled to move out for any requirement.

A woman might go to the marketplace to do business and or else as this might entail anyone inconveniencing her. The problem of the women within Islam is hugely controversial as decided that all the rights awarded to any woman into the Holy Quran and through the prophet Muhammad had been a vast improvement compared to the circumstances of any women in Arabia before the introduction of Islam. After Prophet’s death, the circumstance of women within Islam started to decline and also reverts back in pre-Islamic norms. However just like the women’s movement within the west started to get steam within the 20 th century a similar thing occurred, though to a smaller extent within the Muslim world currently. As a result, all Muslim women have already been developing the distinctly Islamic feminism because women of color within the western have been creating “womanism” as opposed to feminism that shaped by the issues of the United States women.

It was stated that conventional Islam has protected by Quranic reforms, all the role plus the rights of females in Islamic society that is patriarchal which relates towards the Muslim family as well as its respected society along with prescribe rules regarding marriage, divorce plus inheritance, which embraces a step of progress for women from the role status within Islamic society normally thwarted by the male-dominated world relegating females to a subordinate part and position. Therefore, Islamic society had a prolonged family structure including a father, unmarried sons, his wives as well as daughters along with married sons also their wives plus children. The father and a senior male had been leader of their family controlling plus guiding this.

The male family members had considerable strength in family issues they could marry together with divorce as commonly as they wished plus women were omitted from inheritance. A female had been no more than any belonging initially her father plus after marriage from her husband. Females’ primary roles were like wife and mother taking care of household matters, increasing children with taking responsibility for the religious and also moral training. The limited sphere of the activity for females resulted in the seclusion of females and gave rise in order to purdah. The particular custom of females wearing veils is much fewer a Quranic stipulation compared to the influence of Persian plus Byzantine social customs. The veiling and seclusion might have been intended in favor of the honor, protection and also distinction of females they were mainly adopted by higher class females in Islamic times however were forced on all women.

Moreover, the majority of females into Islamic societies led divide lives as well as had to be information with the home-based sphere of activity as well as Muslim females haven’t escaped the influences. Top-notch Muslim families which had lived into the West had well-informed their daughters in America, Europe and England. The exposure to west feminist thoughts was bound to influence Muslim females. Education, voting rights plus employment opportunities introduced the public realm from society in the reach of females’ up-to-date Islamic countries of Syria, Egypt, Iran and Bangladesh.

Muslim females became instrumental within furthering the reason for Muslim women’s rights. It’s the voice of the Islamic females into the Middle East complaining their longtime political as well as economic second-class position. It’s the voice of indignation of women who’ve always been suppressed in typically male-dominated societies. It’s been heard where females despite the selection of the hard-line conservative leader demonstrated against sexual discrimination below that country’s Islamic management. In several Arabic nations of Islam females have usually been relegated in order to obscurity, denied the role politically, economically, socially. In several countries, females are suffering from unequal citizenship plus are refused the right of the voting or even hold office. Inside a somber conclusion, a UN report reported: “Society in general suffers once half of its effective potential is stifled.

One of the most important essentials of Islamic dress code for women is hijab. In all of Islamic regions, states, and places where Muslims reside, it is quite necessary for women to cover themselves up. This is the basic teachings of Islam and Hadith. There are many reasons to why this dress code is important and necessary in Islam. But that does not mean Islam is a backward religion. Or nowhere does it imply all those women who cover themselves up cannot think modern.

People all over the world, all those who are not a member of this beautiful religion believe that Islam remains steadfast on its principles. In their eyes, these principles seem to be quite immoral. Moreover, wearing hijab is merely part of that immorality. Because they have assumed that Islam is a male dominant religion, and women are suppressed. And their men force them to cover up. In addition, this is where they go wrong. Women cover themselves up because this is what Islam teaches them to do. This is the word of the Lord which needs to be followed. But covering oneself up solely does not mean that they are left behind in the modern world.

We have moved way out of the old, conservative age. Now, a more modern and trendier world is coming up front. Moreover, when a Muslim woman, in this modern world, covers herself up, she is considered backward and conservative. But why look at only one side of the picture? Why not the other side? As we already know that there are two sides of a picture, and one side is already before you. Now let’s take a look at the other side.

When a woman wears hijab, she is doing it out of wish, to please her Lord. Not only that, this is what satisfies her. She feels rather comfortable being in that particular dress, she feels protected. She knows that no wrong kind of men will set eyes on her or even try to do something unethical. This is the feeling she gets when she covers herself in public. A feeling that she is strong and protected and nothing can harm her. But at the same time, it does not imply that she holds a narrow minded perspective. Even while covering her, she thinks like a modern person, acts like one and performs her daily task like any modern person around the globe.

As every religion has certain rules and principles, which its believers follow, it is the case with Islam. Islam is a complete religion for humanity. Its foundations are based on morality, values, sanctuary and sacredness. In addition, every Muslim has the right to follow it in accordance to its teachings and values. And this is what any Muslim woman does. She wears a hijab because her religion tells her to do so. Only because she is following her religion does not mean she can be labeled as a narrow minded, conservative rather fanatic Muslim.

A Muslim woman has many different roles to perform. One of those roles is of being a wife. As a Muslim woman, she is always faithful to her husband, takes care of the children herself instead of leaving them in someone else’s hands. There are less divorces and less cheating on spouse in Muslim countries. In Islam, husband and wife are as a cloth, which covers each other, and they are supposed to live in love and peace. In Islam Wife is considered like an ointment for her husband who supports him through tough times.

As a wife, a Muslim woman enjoys many things as for example:

The husband has to keep the promises that he made to his wife during the time of marriage. The husband has to provide her food, and fulfill her needs. He must respect her and pay attention to her, and listen to her advice in every situation. He cannot beat his wife.

The sad thing is that these rights are not enjoyed by most of the Muslim Women, and people of other countries are following these simple things and enjoying a peaceful life. This certainly is something that compels the person to stop and think what they have lost by not following the golden rules of Islam. Islam is based on simplicity and focuses on family life. Roles of husband and wife are well pre defined. For the sake of peaceful and blessed society, it is a must for both husband and wife to follow the true principles laid by Islam and fulfill the duties laid by Quran.

Muslim women are not inferior in any role they play. The male dominance and lack of information have disturbed the beautiful balance in the society.

Woman is created to manifest the love of Allah SWT for His creatures. She is the most precious pearl and her fragrance of love for her children is mesmerizing. Let us suppose you had a precious gem in your collection. Would you keep it on the shelf and pray that it should remain safe? Or would you prefer it to be kept safe in your front pocket? You might check often with your hands and feel its presence. You will feel much better knowing that it is in safe place and no one can steal it.

Women’s modesty is exactly as much precious as that stone in your pocket is and even more. It is more precious than anything else in this world is so it is you – who should take care. Keep it safe and away from hideous people. Let no thief steal that is most precious and Allah SWT has gifted you. If a woman can evaluate her own worth and value – If a woman can see her own beauty the way she is looked upon – if only she could understand her strength that heaven is in the dust of her feet – she would keep herself veiled.

Beauty is not in manifestation of sexuality to prove your individuality. Beauty is skin deep; in fact, it is the beauty of soul and heart and spirit. It is so valuable and valued that no one in this whole universe and beyond can claim the same. Your Creator knows your anatomy and the needs deep within your heart. Allah SWT knows your deepest desires and He SWT created you from the best part of man, the ribs. Neither from the head nor from the feet but the closer to the heart to let them know – you, is his better half – neither low nor superior.

If you veil yourself then it is clear declaration that you are aware of your worth. You are evaluating, YOU, and know exactly how to treasure yourself. Modesty is ornament not enslavement and you know how to look beautiful adorned in your special way.