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Dear Brothers, This topic has demanded time from me which is not sufficient to cover it, and I hope you will be able to read it and benefit from it as I intended for it to help the masses in understanding this issue. Allah is the best compensator and from him we seek reward.

· Reality

The reality is that the woman has suffered a great deal. She has been victimized in every society, and she has grieved in every era. Humanity has never witnessed such deprivation, sorrow, and oppression. In other words, no one has endured more than the woman.

· History of Disgrace

From the annals of disgrace that humanity has seen is a woman being treated like she was not even human.

The Greeks said regarding a woman: She is like a poisonous tree and she is evil from the Satan. She may be sold like any merchandise.

The Romans said: She does not have a soul. They would torture women by pouring boiling oil on them, or dragging them using horses.

The Chinese said: She is cursed water that washes away good fortune. A Chinese man would have the right to bury his wife alive. If a man were to die his wife would be passed on as inheritance.

The Indians said: A woman is worse than death, hell, and fire. A woman doesn’t have the right to live after her death, but she was required to be burned along with his corpse.

The Persians deemed it permissible to marry female relatives without exception. A Persian husband could command his wife to die.

The Jews said: A woman is a curse because she is the cause of sin and temptation. She is impure during her menses. It is permissible for her father to sell her.

The Christians: The French held a discussion in the year 568 A.D. some of the issues discussed were; Is a woman a human or not? Does she have soul or not? If she has a soul is it a human soul or an animal soul? And if it is a human soul then is it equal to a man’s soul or is it below a man’s soul?

Finally after deliberation they came to the conclusion that she is human, but she was created to serve man.

The Parliament at the time of Henry VIII (King of England) decided that it is unlawful for women to read the New Testament (Bible) because she is impure.

The Arabs before Islam: hated women more than death. They were buried alive or thrown into an abandoned well.