The Status of Women in Islam

I. INTRODUCTION The status of women in society is neither a new issue nor is it a fully settled one. The position of Islam on this issue has been among the subjects presented to the Western reader with the least objectivity. This writing is intended to provide a brief and authentic exposition of what Islam stands for in this regard. The teachings of Islam are based essentially on the Quran (God's revelation) and Hadith (elaboration by Prophet Muhammad) pbuh. The Quran and the Hadith, properly and unbiasedly understood, provide the basic source of authentication for any position or view which is attributed to Islam. The paper starts with a brief survey of the status of women in the pre-Islamic era. It then focuses on these...

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Posted in: Women Rights and Needs

Meditation: It’s Not Just For Hippies

  For the past year, I traveled to publications all over the United States. I worked for a media company in Ann Arbor, installing and training users on software that publishes the advertising content of newspapers. As a recent college grad, I felt awkwardly proud and self-conscious saying, “Yeah, I’m here on business.” When working with larger companies, sometimes I’d be gone for two weeks, home for a few days, and gone for another ten. On the road, I often worked fifty or sixty hours a week. Numerous times I woke up in a hotel room without the faintest idea of which state I was in. Halfway through the winter, the internal struggle between pleasing our customers and taking care of myself began taking a toll on my body....

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Posted in: Women Life Style

Women related organizations in Bangladesh

Here, our effort to inform our viewers about some women related organizations in Bangladesh and make them learn about the activities of these organizations so that they can communicate with the necessary organization for the fulfillment of their own need and purpose. Bangladesh  Women’s Foundation: BWF evolved as an independent body of the Women’s Fund in Bangladesh. Created in 2003 to invest in women’s leadership and empowerment and bringing positive change to women’s livelihoods, BWF seeks to assist some of the 8189 small local women’s organizations that are registered with the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. Whilst these organizations are officially registered and are led by women who are undoubtedly passionate...

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Posted in: Profession and Politics

Disability in Bangladesh - A Report by "Centre for research and action on development"

5.6% people in Bangladesh have a disability of one  kind or another as per report revealed in 2005.  So this percentage must have been increased in  today's Bangladesh surely. And among these disable  people, there are significant numbers of disable  women and children lives here also. Among the PWDs  (Person with Disabilities) the distribution also  varied with different aspects i.e. physiological,  location, age, education etc. Usually disability is defined as the physical or mental impairment through out the literature surveyed.  But disability is not only a physical or mental impairment rather it is defined by the culture also.  Somewhere what is normal sickness in other...

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Posted in: Disable Women,Report