August 2002: Page 1, 2, 3, 4

Submitters Perspective

Page 2

Women and Politics in
Islam

Cont’d from page 1

Here we witness one of the first Muslim women in charge of a nation, ruling them as a queen of Sheba. Can we learn a lesson from the Quran? We should.

The lesson is that, God in the Quran never put restrictions on a woman in a ruling position. Con-trary to what the traditional Mus-lim scholars and Hadiths teach, a woman in a leading political posi-tion is not against God’s system or against the Quran. It might be against the chauvinistic views of the men who wrote the corrupted history of Hadiths.

What did the books of man, the Hadith books, teach about women in leadership positions? Com-pletely the opposite, and then they claim that Hadiths do not contra-dict the Quran. Of course the rea-son is that the Prophet Muhammad would have never contradicted the Quran, but those who invented these stories about him did.

In one of the most famous Hadiths that is often raised in the face of any Muslim woman seeking higher education or higher posi-tion in her career is one by a man called Abu Bakra who narrated a Hadith reported in Bukhary that states that any community ruled by a woman will never succeed.

The fallacy of this Hadith is not only proven in history but in the fact that Abu Bakra himself was reported in the Muslim history books to be punished publicly for bearing false witness. Despite this known story of his bearing false witness, Bukhary did not remove his Hadith from among his col-lected Hadiths according to the rules that Bukhary himself claimed to follow. Such a bearer of false witness should never be