Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume II — Page 102
102 (Holy Qur’an Ch. 4: V. 2) [This] m eans ‘ He created pairs of this kind,’ which is to say th at a human entity developed which comprised a man and a woman, and the y both possessed the same feelings, desires , and hopes. T hen from their progeny spread thousands upon thousands of people. They also were not of a different kind. It was not as if they were of one kind in the day s of Adam and then became different in later generations. No difference appe ared in the later generations rather their men and women had the same kind of feelings as one another. | َو َﺑ َّﺚ ِﻣ ۡﻨ ُﻬ َﻤ ﺎ ِر َﺟ ﺎ ًﻻ َﻛ ِﺜ ًۡري ا َّو {ِ َﺴ ﺂ ًء [ … and from them twain spread many men and women ; ] (Holy Qur’an Ch. 4: V. 2) And then He spread many men and women from these couples. Or, in other words, man was the inheritor of his mother and his father, and woman was the inheritor of he r mother and her father. Just as a man inherited the emotions of his mother as well as those of his father the woman too inherited her father’s emotions just as she became heir to her mother’s emotions. The Distincti ve Teachings of the Holy Qur’an This is a basic principle mentioned in the Holy Qur’an which gives Islam distinction over all other religions. There is no other religion in the world which declares men and women to have the same kind s of emotions, feelings , and hopes. To assume that men are of one kind and women of another is wrong. For example, if some people live in a building and some other people are staying in a building next to theirs, one cannot say that the men who live in this building are of one kind whilst those who live in the other are of a different kind. On the contrary, even though people live in different neighborhoods, different houses, and different cities, everyone understands that all people possess the same kind of capa cities. Similarly, even though a man and a woman have different bodies , they still possess simil ar capa cities. T he difference in their bodies is analogous to various people living in different houses. When the soul enters the body of a woman, she does not become a different being. She possesses the same spirit inside of her which the man possesses within him self. Only the