Gender Equality and the Islamic Constitution (2014)

مقدمة / Introduction

Praise be to Allah, who has no religion but His, no law but His, no judgment but His, and no guidance but His. We send prayers and blessings upon our master, leader, the delight of our eyes, and our guide to Allah, Muhammad, may Allah bless him, his family, and his companions with abundant peace. O Allah, show us the truth as truth and grant us the ability to follow it, and show us falsehood as falsehood and grant us the ability to avoid it. And after that... Since Allah sent Muhammad (peace be upon him) with the message of Islam, this religion has been in conflict with disbelief and falsehood; an intellectual and ideological conflict, and a material conflict with soldiers and weapons, until the disbelieving colonizer demolished the Islamic state - the Caliphate - and the intellectual conflict intensified. Perhaps one of the most prominent issues of the intellectual conflict that the disbelieving colonizer tried to exploit is the issue of women - this issue that has generated much ink; platforms have been dedicated to it, and associations and organizations have been established under the pretext of defending women's rights and striving for absolute equality between men and women. Therefore, it is necessary to be aware of these plans and to strive seriously to expose their malice and goals. In that context, the political seminar presented by young women from Hizb ut-Tahrir in Tunisia, entitled "What Equality Do They Want? What Constitution Do We Want?" on April 12, 2014, reflects the awareness of Muslim women of the reality of what is called women's issues of equality and so on, and also sheds light on the real and fateful issue that women must engage in.