Islam's Reformers .pdf

place of the world, woman wants to adorn herself. No matterhow much cherished they are, they are in the position ofbelonging to others like a precious thing. Women, who cannotsacrifice the desire of looking pretty for anything, considerthemselves as rewards for men or for those who are chosenfrom among men. The rights given to them in some countries,for example, their equality with men, cannot remove the defectsin their creation. Though man’s brain is bigger and heavier thanwoman’s, women in villages work as much as or even harderthan men. Yet these labours have not rendered them dominantor ruling. It has been declared in the Qur’ân that men aresuperior to women. Allâhu ta’âlâ has created men stronger thanand dominant over women. Parents mostly want a baby-boy.This indicates that man is a support, a power in life, and womenis a deficiency. Women, no matter what she does, can haveonly one child in a year. Here, man’s activity is without limits. Aman can have as many children as the number of his wives in ayear, and the father and mothers of these children are known.In respect to bringing up children, a man is sort of equal tohundreds of women.Furthermore, the number of girls born is bigger than that ofboys. Wars decrease the number of men more. And sometimes,where men are reluctant to marry, the number of women isthousands more than men. We often read in newspapers thatthis is so. For example, the report from the daily Türkiye ofRajab al-fard 3, 1393 (August 2, 1973) Thursday issue said:“According to the vital statistics prepared in the UnitedStates, women live longer than men.“Statistics show that the female population is 2 million morethan the male population and that, of the people aged 25 andabove, women are more than men.“According to the statistics of the world population, for 1000men of age 65 and above, there corresponds 1275 women; in1980, in this age group, there will be 1500 women for 1000men, and this unequillibrium will go further because of moreincrease in the female population. Two-thirds of the womenaged 65 and above are widowed, and the ratio of widows towidowers is 3. During 1950-1960, the number of widows madea rise of 17.7 percent, while the number of widowers made a fallof 2.4 percent.“Again in the United States it is estimated that newly born- 120 -