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I'm about to ruffle some feathers with this

one, but Islam granted women more rights than

Christianity and Judaism. Keep in mind, I'm

comparing religion to religion, not modern Western

interpretation of religion. The first right

Islam granted women that they didn't previously

have was right to property. According to Numbers

27, Christianity and Judaism did not allow women

to inherit property unless there were no sons

to do so. And this was the practice for centuries.

Even if a woman did end up inheriting property

later on, it became her husband's property once

she became married. But in Islam, in Surah An-Nisa

verse 7, it states that men and women are to

inherit a share of property. Women were also

allowed rights to their own money, and their

husband had no rights to it according to Surah

An-Nisa verse 32. The next right granted to

women in Islam was rights to consent in marriage.

In many religions for a very long time, marriages

were arranged by the woman's father and she

had no say in it. This comes from Deuteronomy

book 22, verses 28 to 29. In Judaism and Christianity,

arranged marriages like this were a common practice

for centuries. But in Islam, no marriage is

valid without consent of both parties. This

is evidenced by Surah An-Nisa verse 19 and several

Hadith. There is also no demonization of women

in Islam. In the Bible, Timothy 2:14 has been

used as a means to say women have some weak

moral compass and demonize them and blame them

for the fall of humanity for centuries. But

in the Quran, there's actually no blame placed

on Eve individually. Surah Al-A'raf places blame

on both Adam and Eve, giving both equal blame.

And of course, we have the right to education.

In Islam, education is mandatory for both men

and women. According to Surah Al-Alaq verse

1, Surah Az-Zumar verse 9, and several Hadith.

Knowledge is mandatory in Islam, and women were

actually scholars, students, leaders, and the

first university in the world was opened by

a Muslim woman. Fatima al-Fihri opened the first

university in Morocco in 859 CE. Comparing this

to the New Testament of the Bible, you will

see that women were limited from roles like

that. First Timothy 2:12 says, I do not permit

a woman to teach or to assume authority over

a man. And First Corinthians 14:34-35 says that

women should stay silent in the churches. So

going off of religious text alone, it becomes

very clear that Islam did grant women far more

rights than the books of Judaism or Christianity.

I will be following up this video with some

other rights that Islam granted women and answering

any questions that people may have. As-salamu

alaykum, American who converted to Islam, here

to correct what you think you know about Islam,

specifically women's rights. I'm going to talk

about a few things most people don't know about

women in Islam. In Islam, women have been able

to take men to court since the inception of

Islam. And they won a lot of the time. Early

Muslim women sued governors, judges, and even

the caliph himself, and courts took them seriously.

Meanwhile, in Christian society and courts,

women were banned from testifying at all. Another

interesting piece of information is that most

of the top male scholars learned from women.

Women would run study circles with hundreds

of men learning from them. Meanwhile, Christian

women were banned from teaching theology. Women

also fought in battle alongside the Prophet.

Umm 'Umarah and Nusaybah bint Ka'ab are very

well known to have fought in battles with the

Prophet. Meanwhile, in Christian Europe, women

weren't allowed to join the military until the

20th century. This one's probably the hardest

for people to accept, but hijab was not invented

by Islam. Other groups did give it a different

name, but the concept of a head covering isn't

original to Islam. It occurred in Jewish, Christian,

and Roman cultures as well. And it was a status

symbol representing upper-class dignity. People

thinking of hijab as oppressive is just historically

ignorant. Islamic history is so much deeper

than most people realize, and it is far beyond

the modern stereotypes that surround it. So

which of these facts surprised you the most?

Did you know any of these?

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