Women’s Rights in Islam (Part 2)
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Responsibility for feeding women:
Islam has made it obligatory to support women, such as their food, clothing and shelter.
Even if a woman has a lot of wealth and her own source of income, her husband will be responsible for her maintenance.
Muhammad ibn Muslim said: I asked Imam Sadiq (as):
Who is responsible for the maintenance of a man? Imam Sadiq (AS) replied: Parents, wives and children. 49
Women’s Inheritance:
Islam has determined the inheritance of women’s property.
If the heir has a son and a daughter, the daughter will receive half of the son’s property.
Sometimes girls get more than half, for example,
if the deceased father or mother has an only child, and if that child is a girl,
the mother or father will get one-fourth and the daughter three-quarters.
Sometimes the daughter shares the entire property because the deceased has
no inheritance other than the daughter.
If the wife does not have children, she receives one-fourth of the property from the husband,
and if you have children, you get eight.
The mother again receives one-sixth of the property from her children.
In some cases they get more than that.
Women’s rights in the eyes of Islam (Part 2)
The important thing in this case is that Islam has determined the inheritance for women.
Women receive such property from multiple sources as daughters from their fathers,
mothers from their children and wives from their husbands.
Ensuring women’s rights:
In the age of ignorance, it was customary for everyone to consider only men as heirs.
And it was believed that those who had the ability
to fight and resist to defend their
self-esteem at gunpoint deserved inherited property.
And those who
cannot afford it will not inherit the property.
And on the basis of this document, women were deprived of property
and the property of the deceased was distributed among men.
Distant male relatives also received a share of this property.
Islam strongly opposes this wrong process in the distribution of wealth and
deprives women and children of their due rights which others unjustly
enjoyed and handed over to the real creditors. At this moment the Holy Quran says:
الِرِّجَالِ نَصِبٌ مِّمّّ
Just as men have a share in the property left by their parents and relatives,
so women have a share in the property left by their parents and relatives.
Let him be more or less. And it is obligatory to give them this part. 50
Women’s rights in the eyes of Islam (Part 2)
Another unjust practice in the pre-Islamic era was that the men of that time used to
marry ugly rich women and then leave them to their pre-marital status i.e.
did not give them the status of wife and also divorced them.
This means they only counted the days they died because as soon as
they die they will become the owners of that property.
However, Islam condemns and oppresses them for such cruelty and
oppression, and the Holy Qur’an states:
O believers!
It is not lawful for you to believe that those who legally inherit their property. 51
Women, why men get half the property?
Imam Sadiq (AS) was asked: Why do women get half the property of men?
The Imam answered this question: This is because jihad,
the cost of running the house, and the payment of diyah
(blood money) are not obligatory on women. 52
As the Imam has said, jihad is not obligatory on women. Firstly,
the man must wage jihad to protect his religion, secondly,
even if the wife is very rich, the husband must bear the cost of
supporting the woman. However, women are completely irresponsible in this case.
Fourth, if a woman gets married, she gets something from her husband for dowry. For all these reasons, it can be said that women are the recipients and men are the spenders. And so it makes sense to double a woman’s share of a man’s property to create a balance.
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