Women & Politics in Islam
by unknown Author

One of the major controversial issues in Islam to those who do not know the TRUE Islam
is, where is the woman's role in the political system, or leadership. Can a woman take the leadership role? Is it prohibited ?

The answer will be different if you look at the book of God, the Quran, or if you look at the books of man, the Hadiths, that most of them were written about 250 years after the Prophet's death.

When God tells us a story in he Quran, He does not do so just for entertaining us, but to teach us a lesson.

"We narrate to you the most accurate history through the revelation of this Quran. Before this, you were totally unaware." 12:3

"In their history, there is a lesson for those who possess intelligence......" 12:111

The role of an important woman in the history of the old world, as much as Muslims are concerned, is shown in the story of Belquees, the Queen of Sheba. See 27:22-44 God mentioned her history in the Quran to let us know that a woman in a ruling position is not offensive as far as God is concerned.

She represented a democratic ruler who consulted with her people before making important decisions, See 27:29. She visited Solomon, talked to him , made decisions for herself and her people, not hiding behind walls , or shying behind another man..

After witnessing what God gave Solomon, she became a submitter (Muslim), while still the Queen of Sheba.

"She was told, "Go inside the palace." When she saw its interior, she thought it was a pool of water, and she (pulled up her dress) exposing her legs. He said, "This interior is now paved with crystal." She said, "MY LORD, I HAVE WRONGED MY SOUL. I NOW SUBMIT WITH SOLOMON TO GOD, LORD OF THE UNIVERSE."

Here we witness one of the first Muslim women in charge of a nation, ruling them as a queen of Sheba. Can we learn a lesson from the Quran ? we should.

The lesson is that, God in the Quran never put restrictions on a woman in a ruling position. Contrary to what the traditional Muslim scholars and Hadiths teach, a woman in a leading political position is not against God's system or against the Quran. It might be against the chauvinistic views of the men who wrote the corrupted history of Hadiths.

What did the books of man, the Hadith books teach about women in leadership positions?

Completely the opposite, and then they claim that Hadiths do not contradict the Quran.. Of course the reason is that, the Prophet Muhammed would have never contradicted the Quran , but those who invented these stories about him did.

In one of the most famous Hadiths that is often raised in the face of any Muslim woman seeking higher education or higher position in her career is one by a man called Abu Bakra who narrated a Hadith reported in Bukhary that states that any community ruled by a woman will never succeed.

The fallacy of this Hadith is not only proven in history but in the fact that Abu Bakra himself was reported in the Muslim history books to be punished publicly for bearing false witness. Despite this known story of his bearing false witness, Bukhary did not remove his Hadith from among his collected Hadiths according to the rules that Bukhary himself claimed to follow. Such a bearer of false witness should never be allowed or accepted as a witness ever, according to the Quran.

24:4 Bukhary did not follow the Quran or his own rules. I guess he liked the degrading of women he found in this hadith.

We need only to look at what God is teaching us in HIS BEST HADITH BOOK, and not at what the men who invented the Hadiths are trying to confuse us. Everyone of us have a choice, either believe God and His book or believe Bukhary and other men who contradict the Quran. Only those who choose God will be the successful ones .