Can Women Become Imams And Rulers Of Muslim Countries ?
Imaam al-Muwaffaq Ibn Qudaamah said: “For this reason the Prophet SAWS (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and his successors (khulafa’) and those who came after them never appointed a woman to be a judge or a governor of a province, as far as we know. If it were permissible, it should have happened.” Imaam al-Ghazaali said: “The position of leader (imaam) could never be given to a woman even if she possessed all the qualities of perfection and self-reliance. How could a woman take the position of leader when she did not have the right to be a judge or a witness under most of the historical governments?”
We don’t know Benazir’s personal life and I don’t want to comment on her imaan and her relation with her husband. I am talking about a general concept. A woman who is supposed to be obedient to her husband (as Ghamidi saab says, a family can’t have two bosses), will find it difficult to be his boss overall in terms of state, where he has to obey her.
I don’t see any such conflict and instead of hypothesis, I gave you a practical example. We don’t obey the rulers, we obey the law. Similarly, a Husband is bound to obey those laws as well, how is this conflicting their relationship? and this obedience is not absolute; just like a husband can’t ask her wife to go out and earn for them both, a wife is under no obligation to obey that, the same can be applied to any other unreasonable demand made by Husband.