Gender equality in the light of Sirah (An intensive study of Muhammad his character and conduct by Adil Salahi)

Abstract

With the passage of time, every society faces newly issues in daily life. Western society is blessed with all luxury and extravagant living facilities. And it is a natural phenomenon and universal truth that, the more a community enjoys the worldly things, the more it loses its moral values and ethical esteem. So western world gradually loses its etiquettes and has been replaced with some problematic issues. The western people also criticize the Islamic teachings regarding some family issues. They consider it injustice against the women rights on humanity basis. According their objection the gender equality comprises to permission to beat a wife, Polygamy, unequally distribution of inheritance among son & daughter and testimony of two women is considered equal to one man in court. All these issues are linked to Islamic injustice and vastly debated in western society. Here the researcher will discuss the aforementioned issues in the light of Adil Salahi’s book “Muhammad: His character and conduct” in detail and then tackle its solution in the light of the the scared instructions of Al mighty Allah and the teachings of the Holy prophet Muhammad (pbuh).