Islamic Teachings on Ideal Family Life — Page 12
~ 12 ~ “Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women, and truthful men and truthful women, and men steadfast in their faith and steadfast women, and men who are humble and women who are humble, and men who give alms and women who give alms, and men who fast and women who fast, and men who guard their chastity and women who guard their chastity and men who remember All ā h much and women who remember Him—All ā h has prepared for all of them forgiveness and a great reward. ” (The Holy Qur’ ā n, 33:36) The Holy Qur’ ā n has repeatedly mentioned that Muslim women stand on the same level with Muslim men, and that they can attain to all those spiritual heights to which men can attain. Besides, Isl ā m also confers on women all the political and social rights, which men enjoy. Only their spheres of activities being different, their duties are different. It is this difference in duties of both the sexes that has been mistakenly, or perhaps deliberately, misunderstood by people. The ten outstanding attributes of Muslim men and women mentioned in this verse have been appropriately described in the above verse of the Holy Qur’ ā n. So, it is