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On March 26, Mohamed Adiouane talked about women in Islam at a conference hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Idaho.
Adiouane started the session with an introduction about Islam as a “religion of the book” and he explained that all religions have the same message from God.
Adiouane then answered questions throughout the
session.
“Islam as a theoretical text belongs to God, not to a human thought,” Adiouane said. “Meaning there is one God and all of us are his slaves, so we can`t be slaves of each other.”
“God said that I created you as men and women and you all have responsibilities and obligations to keep yourselves free,” Adiouane said. “God says that men and women have the same responsibilities.”
Adiouane also said Muslims should live the text and leave the misinterpretations and bias judgments out of their lives.
“The Romans and Persian empires were one of the first to delete women from their political world,” he said. “Then others followed them so blindly and they forgot that the first council of the Prophet Muhammad was his wife. Women are well treated in the Islamic religion, not mistreated.”
Reading the text and looking back at the history of our prophets we see that women were able to do anything that men were able to do.
Women were able to work outside of the house.
They were able to take parts in the political and social
relations.
If we see things differently today it’s all misinterpretations.
“They are mistreated not within the text but only within the Muslims actions,” Adiouane said about women.
He said misinterpretations and bias thoughts are everywhere not just within Muslim countries.
Adiouane said “We can’t apply the Romans’ and Persians’ rules anymore and we need to realize what’s relevant to our needs today.”
He also talked about how Muhammad the Prophet had more than one wife.
Each of the wives had her own story to justify why she was married to Muhammad.
The first one was 25 years older than the Prophet, showing it doesn’t matter if there is a large difference in age between the two spouses.
The next one was 13 years old, and that was because God gave Muhammad the justice quality.
It doesn’t matter if a spouse is older or younger, if she is from a different country, ethnicity or has religious beliefs.
The reason why the prophet was able to have several wives was that God gave him the ability to treat all his wives with justice and equality and not to favor one more than the other.
The justice quality was necessary for setting an example.
But now men can’t take several wives because God didn’t give them the same justice quality that he gave the prophet because they are followers of the prophet, not example setters.
“God said that any man can have four wives as long as he can treat them all equally.
“Then he said that he created men and knows that they are not able to be just toward several spouses,” Adiouane said.
That’s the reason they can only take one spouse.
Now if men take more than one wife, they are not applying the soul of Islam, but only the misinterpretation of Islamic texts related to gender issues.
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