Women in Islam have equel rights to man. Isalm gave women all rights which women deserve. Islam considers women to be equel to am a man as a human being. Women have been created with a soul of the same nature as man’s. Allah (SWT) says in the Quran:
“O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife (Eve), and from them both He created many men and women and fear Allah through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship). Surely, Allah is Ever and All-Watcher over you.” (Al-Nisa 4:1)
The main principles of the human rights in Islam are : -
1 -The right and duty to obtain education.
2- The right to have their own independent property.
3- The right to work to earn money if they need it or want it.
Equality of reward for equal deeds.
4- The right to participate fully in public life and have their voices heard by those in power.
5- The right to provisions from the husband for all her needs and more.
6-The right to negotiate marriage terms of her choice.
7- The right to obtain divorce from her husband, even on the grounds that she simply can’t stand him.
9- The right to keep all her own money (she is not responsible to maintain any relations).
Those are not all the rights which Islam gave to women but I mentioned the main characteristics of human rights.This rules springs from Islamic law and Islamic law is the product of Quranic guidelines, as understood by Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), as well as of the interpretations derived from the traditions of Prophet Muhammad (hadith), that were agreed upon by majority of Muslim scholars as authentic beyond doubt based on the Science of Hadith. These interpretations and their application were shaped by the historical context of the Muslim world at the time they were written. Many of the earliest writings were from a time of tribal warfare which could have been inappropriate for the 21st Century.
Women played an important role in the foundation of many Islamic educational institutions, such as Fatima al-Fihri’s founding of the University of Al Karaouine in 859. This continued through to the Ayyubid dynasty in the 12th and 13th centuries, when 160 mosques and madrasahs were established in Damascus, 26 of which were funded by women through the Waqf (charitable trust or trust law) system. Half of all the royal patrons for these institutions were also women.
Men may fear or distrust “feminism” if they think it means nothing more than women gaining control over them. But genuine women’s liberation would be liberating for all people, men and women alike. Not an issue of who wields power over whom, but transcending that whole issue of power, lifting our consciousness to a higher plane. A woman who is truly liberated would not be stuck in that old power struggle; she would not seek to control men any more than she would accept being controlled by men. Rather, both men and women would rejoice at being freed to relate to one another as loving, spiritual beings. This is real, and most of all the Sufis have actualized it. This is what the Prophet (peace be upon him) brought, if only that original liberating spirit could be released from under the dead weight of centuries of cultural repression like “purdah”, which came not from Islam, but from the concubinage of the ancient Greeks and Romans, where women had no rights and were property owned by their fathers, husbands, and slave masters, so it is nothing but jâhilîyah pretending to be Islam, while Islam established the independent, equal status of women for the first time in civilization.
But Islam put an end to man disgrace for women and formed the rules which intensified the reaction against man if he usurb the rights of women.
