Are women allowed to work?
Salam 'Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatu,
This question has been bugging me for a while.. So are women allowed to work or not? When I get married, should I oblige my wife to stay at home or is she allowed to decide on her own? What's the answer on these three scenarios?
1) A married woman in the west
2) A married woman in a Muslim country
3) A non-married woman in a Muslim country.
Jazakallahu Khayran in advance for your replies.
Wassalaam,
Abdullah.
Re: Are women allowed to work?
to just summarise: woman are allowed to work , but in a gooood environment.
and it must be goooood environment and not good. =)
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Yep. Complete segregation of men and women for a start. Adds for competition too I feel. You know, girls vs boys, who can deliver better results.
Interesting to know though what the Ulemas say on the matter. Most women who work don't know the Islamic stance on women and work to be honest, and fall prey to the trap of "western feminism".
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Originally Posted by Abdullah Ibn Adam
no, woman arent allowed to work unless and untill there is complete parda system.
this is my stand, even if any scholar allows it
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I agree brother, there has to be complete parda.
no, woman arent allowed to work unless and untill there is complete parda system.
this is my stand, even if any scholar allows it
there are many scholars that will go further and say women should not be travelling, or outdoors without their husband or brother/father.
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I personally feel a parda system would even increase productivity as there is an inherent competitive nature between men and women, which in the context of a business is not a bad thing!
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We had a discussion about this in madrassah, and at the end we (Teacher which is a scholar and the class) came up with this:
A married women can work, In the West, Muslim Country, but there are conditions:
- She stays away from men as much as possible (alikhtilaat (mixing) with them)
- She observes the shara'e hijaab (burqa, scarf, and niqaab)
- She works for a job thats suitable for a womens personality like teaching, doctor, and the it should be such a job where she doesnt have to interact and communicate with men a whole lot
- She can work if she does not neglect her first most important priorities which are Taking care of the husband, Taking care of the kids, and working on their tarbiyah, cleaning, cooking. and her job, If she can keep a "tawazun".
- She can also work at a place where her imaan is not in danger.
- and If her working doesn not cause fitnah.
and see there are needs for women to work in some particular careers, because If there werent women doctors where would the perdah observing women go, and there are need of women teachers, and etc.
In conclusion, A women can work If she follows the stated conditions.
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As Salamu Alaykum
Dr. Umar Faruq Abdallah's 14 CD set course on Famous Women in Islam brought out some interesting things.
For one, during the time of the Prophet salla llahu alayhi wa sallam, both women and men worked together in an egalitarian society in al Madinah al Munawara (especially the women of the Ansar). There was no absolute separation between the men and women at the time.
As the Islamic empire grew and absorbed former Byzantine and Persian Empires, the society turned patriarchal but not as excessive as compared to Europe and other places at the time.
Theoretically, there is nothing to bar women from working and what not because the precedent has already been established in classical Islam. Take for instance Shaykha Umm Hani Maryam ash-Shafi'i who was not only a hafidh in hadith, a faqih in Shafi'i fiqh, but also an owner of one of the biggest textile mills in Cairo at the time.
There is also an example of the wife of great Hanafi scholar Imam Kasani who was a Hanafi scholar in her own right (daughter to Imam Samarkandi) and it was said he would never sign off on a fatwa unless she signed it first.
I recommend everyone to get this CD set, he really dispels a lot of issues that are detrimental to Muslim women. There is a lot more to it in his lecture of it and I cant do it justice by quoting snippets of it on this forum
Note: I'm not a feminist or secularist or whatever you call it.
Imam ash-Shafi`i said, "Whoever takes knowledge from books loses the regulations." (man akhadha al-`ilma min al-kutubi Dayya`a al-aHkaama). [Reported by Nawawi in the introduction to "al-Majmu`"]
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So men and women mixing together under the guise of a working environment is ok is it? Islam forbids free mixing, but according to your CD set, work is fine.
News for you, 40% of marriages if not higher in the UK are broken due to office "romances". Work was the last thing on these peoples' minds when they were committing zina....
Yes, women not free mixing in a work environment is so "detrimental" to them.
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http://www.askimam.org/fatwa/fatwa.p...fd7c3b24a01443
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