Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

commandment is not performed, the woman will have to work for
a living. As is seen, in the Islamic religion, it is the man, not the
woman, who is in a pitiable state. A father has to support her poor
daughter, regardless of whether she is a virgin or a widow. He will
be sent to prison if he does not. If she does not have a father, or if
he is poor, too, her rich relatives will have to support her. If she
does not have any rich relatives, either, the State will have to
assign an allowance for her. A Muslim woman does not have to
work for a living. The Islamic religion has loaded them with all the
needs of the woman. Versus this heavy burden on the man’s back,
Allâhu ta’âlâ has commanded that the woman be given a share
half that of his brother from the inheritance that their dead parents
left, which in turn is another piece of kindness He has blessed her
with, since it would have been quite fair if He had rewarded the
overburdened man with the entire legacy. Please see the final part
of the twenty-second (22) chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless
Bliss! The husband cannot force his wife to work inside or outside
of the house. It is permissible for the wife to work outdoors if she
wants to do so, provided she should cover herself in a way
prescribed by Islam, men (nâ mahram to the women working
there) should not be allowed into the place, and she should have
been permitted by her husband to work outdoors. In that case,
however, her earnings will be her own personal property. No one
has the right to exact her earnings or her share from the legacy
from her. Nor can she be forced to spend them buying her own
needs or the needs of her children or any other requirements of
her house or family. It is farz for her husband to buy all these
needs, bring them home, and place them at the disposal of his wife
and children. In communist countries today, both women and men
together are being made to do hardest types of work for food only
like animals. On the other hand, in the so-called free Christian
countries and in the pseudo-Islamic Arab countries, women are
being made to work like men in industry, in agronomy, and in
business under the slogan, ‘Life is common’. Newspaper columns
teem with reports informing that quite a number of women rue the
day they got married and courts of law are clogged with divorce
files. If women knew about the value that the Islamic religion has
attached to them and about the comfort, peace, latitude, and the
right of divorce they would be enjoying in a true Islamic family, all
the world’s women would immediately embrace Islam and
endeavour to the best of their abilities so that Islam be known in
countries worldover. What a shame, however, that they cannot
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