The Role of women in Islam
$5.00 60 minutes |
- What the Qur’an and Muhammad say about the rights and responsibilities of Muslim women.
- Heavenly women are the reward for Muslim men in paradise but the Qur’an has nothing to say of the reward for Muslim women.
- Muhammad said: Women are deficient. Amongst the inmates in paradise women would be in the minority.
- According to Ahadith and Shari'a, to divorce his wife a husband has to utter just 3 times, 'I divorce you'.
- The testimony of 2 women is equal to that of one of man.
- A man is allowed to beat his disobedient wife for her 'rebelliousness'.







Steven Masood is a Christian from a sectarian Muslim background. He became a follower of Jesus in April 1973 in Karachi, Pakistan. He has a Master of Theology degree and a Doctorate of Philosophy from the London School of Theology in association with Brunel University, London. Both research degrees were granted on writing theses on subjects related to Islam and Christianity. He has spent over 30 years studying and working in Christian-Muslim relations and has taught Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim relations as a visiting lecturer at several Christian institutions in Britain and the Far East.