Woman in Islam — Page 4
4 “Those who malign believing men and believing women for that which they have not done, shall bear the guilt of a calumny and a manifest sin. ” (33:59) “Those who persecute the believing men and believing women, and then do not repent, will surely suffer the chastisement of hell, and the chastisement of burning. ” (85:11) Concerning the situation that developed at Hudaibiyyah, it is said: “Had it not been for believing men and believing women of whom you had no knowledge, who were then in Mecca, whom you might have trampled down unknowingly and thus incurred blame on their account, Allah might have let you fight your way into Mecca; but He held you back that He might admit into His mercy whom He will. Had those believing men and believing women drawn apart from the rest, We would surely have chastised the disbelievers with grievous chastisement. ”(48:26) Women, being more vulnerable than men, are accorded special protection: “Those who calumniate chaste, unwary, believing women are cursed in this world and the hereafter; and for them is grievous chastisement, on the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet shall bear witness against them as to that which they used to do. ” (24:24-5) Men and women will be equally rewarded in the hereafter: