Sexism In Islam?
That’s very true. I am also struggling with this in understanding the rationale for this. The only answer that satisfies me is that this order of men being the governors of women was according to that society’s overwhelming trend and not meant to be lasting forever as you can clearly see that women are as capable of bearing the burden of this responsibility as men.
@faisalharoon Thanks a lot for the explanation. The second argument and its explanation, “ Technically yes, however, practically, men who go this route would go against the essence of God’s will, and as you also pointed out, would ruin their marriages. ” This is another main confusion that what good is this privilege the use of which basically kills the institution it was supposed to uphold?
Muhammad, you are assuming husband is superior. No one is superior over the other, but one person has to lead; Allah allowed the one earning and spending on the family as a leader. It can be a woman. There are something in life that can’t or shouldn’t be compromised; in such situations if both are equally powerful and self-sufficient a divorce is more likely in a conflict. In an organization if there were two CEOs and each could fire the other one, it wouldn’t work. If that arrangement was a great arrangement there would be multiple CEOs in organizations.