SPIRIT OF ISLAM DECEMBER 2018

6 Spirit of Islam Issue 72 December 2018 male counterparts. God fashioned them according to His Will, just as He fashioned men in accordance with His Will and Power. Modern research has presented the facts on a purely academic level, that fundamental, inborn differences do exist between men and women. A detailed article on the Status of Women in Encyclopaedia Britannica includes a section on Scientific Studies of Male-Female differences. Here the author points out physical differences in the respective constitutions of male and female forms of the human species. “With respect to personality traits”, he writes, “men are characterized by greater aggressiveness, dominance, achievement and motivation, women by greater dependency, a stronger social orientation and the tendency to be more easily discouraged by failure than men. (Encyclopaedia Britannica vol.19 p.907). And there are a number of latter-day scientific experiments to back this up. Child specialists say that male-female differences are entirely genetic in nature. The passivity found in women is due to the particular nature of the female hormone. Differences between male and female hormones exist from birth; they are not acquired later, as would be the case if they stemmed from differences in environment. The tenets of Islamare basedwholly on nature. This is because Islam is the religion of nature. The laws Islam requires us to follow are, in fact, our own instinctive human requirements expressed in legal terms. And the teachings of Islam with respect to women are no exception. They too are based on nature. Modern psychological, biological and anatomical research proves women to be more passive than men. This is the way their Maker has fashioned them. The nature of their womanhood and the special part they have to play in society, demand that they should be just as they have been made — that is relatively delicate as compared to men. It is this fact of nature on which Islamic teachings have been based. Because of women’s delicate constitution, Islam teaches men to be gentle with them. That way they will not lose heart or become too despondent to perform their special duties in life. Women are not like The tenets of Islam are based wholly on nature. This is because Islam is the religion of nature. The laws Islam requires us to follow are, in fact, our own instinctive human requirements expressed in legal terms.