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Old March 22, 2005, 02:48 PM
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For those who have no such understanding of Islam Please note...........

Women can not lead men to prayer; however, they can lead other women to prayer.

Similarly, men can not lead women to prayer within a same congregation, ie in an open non segregated prayer space. For a gathering of women there is no necessity for men respect of performing any religious duties.

Furthermore, women have no obligation what so ever to go to a Friday prayer or indeed to any prayers in the mosque. This does not mean they are excluded from the mosque, simply that they have given a lot of latitude in Islam.

Men and women are equal in Islam, however they have different roles, responsibilities and duties.

It is this differences of roles that is exploited by the secularist and agent provocateurs to claim the supposed gender inequalities in Islam. They conveniently forgets that Islamic regulation strikes balance through compensatory measures in responsibilities and duties. Wherever inequity is prescribed, i.e laws of inheritance – It is prescribed that a daughter should receive property or money to a value equalling 1/3 of that to be inherited by a son. This would seem unfair at a first glance and this example is cited above any other by secularists and anti-Muslims as a war cry. What they however do not say is that Islamic Law also dictates that the responsibilities for the care of elderly parents is the sole province of the son. For every equity there is increased responsibility and duties and for every inequity there is compensatory decrease in responsibilities and duties.

In respect of Islam and gender, men and women are not separate but equal, they are separate and complementary . Western feminism and secularism in general has goals of seeking equality between the genders by homogenising the roles of men and women. They have taken equality to mean the same.
Islam does not follow such base logic of the lowest common denominator. Its rational is more sophisticated and at the heart of it is the recognition that the genders are not at war or competition with one another, but are complementary.
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