By TCN News,
Aligarh: Emphasising that the rights given by the Islam to women about 14 centuries ago are still not available to the non-Muslim women, Professor Shakeel Samdani from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Monday said, “Islam gives complete liberty to women and they are allowed to do every work within the limits of Sharia.”
Professor Samdani, also the president of the Sir Syed Awareness Forum, was speaking at a seminar on ‘The Rights and Duties of Women in Islam’ organised by 3S Classes on the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8), a release said here.
Professor Shakeel Samdani speaking
He further said that Islam gives equality, but not similarity to Muslims, pointing, “Of course Islam does not permit the so called liberty of the West, which permits nudity, obscenity, selfishness and frailty.”
Replying to the criticism of Islam, he said in western countries the rate of divorce and wife beating is the highest but the situation in Muslim countries and Muslim societies is much better. The provision of divorce provided by Islam is not a ‘Zehmat’ but ‘Rehmat’, if it is exercised in accordance with Quran, he added.
“Even in India the dowry related deaths and the petitions relating to divorce are less in Muslims. As far as polygamy is concerned, various reports of government of India have revealed that Muslims are less polygamous than non-Muslims.”
In his speech, Professor Samdani said that the three women of Islam – Hazrat Khadija (RA), Hazrat Fatima (RA) and Hazrat Ayesha Siddiqa (RA) – have no parallel in women’s history and these three women have shown a clear cut path of sacrifice and success, which will be remembered till the day of judgment.
The life history of Hazrat Ayesha (RA), the beloved wife of Prophet of Islam is full of sacrifice and service for the cause of Islam and after the demise of Prophet of Islam (SAW), she lead the Muslim world intellectually and spiritually for decades.
Anjum Tasneem of Uday Singh Jain Girls College threw light on the history of women’s day and said that on this day seminars, symposiums, conferences and processions are organized but the desired results are not achieved, women are still being oppressed and harassed. While citing various reports, she said: “The laws are not balanced and the freedom, which has been given to the women are immoral, unethical, unreasonable and un-Islamic. That’s why instead of relieving them from hardship, their problems are increasing day by day.”
She advised the audience to turn towards the Islamic laws and lead their lives accordingly, the release added.
Mohammad Usama of Madarsa Arabia Tameer-e-Millat, Aligarh said that if the Muslim women want peace and dignity in their lives, they should lead their lives in accordance with Sharia. They should also create an Islamic environment within the family.
Other speakers of the seminar included, Suhaib Salahuddin Siddiqui, Mohsin Jamal and Furqan Ahmad. The programme saw a large number of non-Muslim ladies and teachers in attendance. A book on ‘Indo Islamic Culture’ authored by Imran Khan was released on the occasion.
The seminar was attended among others by Gaurav Sharma, Swati Yadav, Monika Singh, Poornima Singh, Ayesha Samdani, Hilal Asghar, Uzma Almas, Abu Khuzaima, Asma Alisher, Huda Khan Nadim Ahmed, Abdullah Samdani etc., the release added.
Interestingly, the programme organised on International Women’s Day has more male speakers speaking about women, except one and even the audience comprised of majority of young men.