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intercourse illegitimately and his view of his own wife aredifferent,” they in fact regard those women who workillegitimately as lowly people who have lost their value. For thisreason, they consider the sexual relations of a woman of highrank a much more shameful deed, a scandal.Women are led to prostitution out of necessity, need orseduction. It cannot be thought of for man because he does notearn but pays money. This also shows that woman cannot beequal to man.No matter how pretty she is, a woman does not give uptrying to be attractive for man. Those with diminishedbashfulness turn womanhood into a commercial material. It isseen that woman is more timid than man. This timidity is notbecause their lust is little, but because they are more capable ofconcealing their sensations than men are. As lust is more inwomen, so their bashfulness is more than men’s. Even awoman with diminished bashfulness sits awaiting at the brothel.It is the man who visits her and even pays her. In no place ofthe world is there a brothel where clients are women andprostitutes are men.Women’s bashfulness provides them with greater patienceand determination. It prevents them from rushing into manyheavy jobs. With the exception of communist regimes, wherehuman beings, regardless of sex, are held equal with animalsand slaves, although some of them, for the purpose ofdeceiving Muslims, disguise their administrations underspurious appelations such as “Socialist Islamic Republic’, thereis next to no country where women are armed and sent to thebattlefield no matter how difficult the conditions are. When mendecrease in number, they employ women in supply servicebehind the front and in easy jobs. In reply to men, whoundertake these heavy and risky jobs and who sacrifice theirlives for their country and children, such a self-sacrifice as notbeing sorry for their husbands’ marrying more than one can beexpected from women in order to prevent the loss of populationcaused by heavy industries and wars.In fact, men’s jihâd against the enemy is compared towomen’s struggling with their nafs in the Hadîth:“Allâhu ta’âlâ imposed jealousy on women and jihâd onmen. The woman who believes and endures this task willbe rewarded in the Hereafter as if she were a martyred- 122 -