Muslim society over the centuries has treated women as second class .
It's been this way since the beginning of time. Women are treated in .
this manor for a number of reasons, but all leading back to the Quran. Women .
are considered inferior to men, are treated unfairly in marriage, and even are .
oppressed legally, but all are approved of in the Quran. It describes in detail .
the way that a women is to be treated and the way a women should treat her .
husband. .
The Quran expresses the equality of the sexes in the following. "And .
their Lord answereth them, `I will not suffer the work of him among you that .
worketh, whether of male or female, to be lost. the one of you is the issue of .
the other."(Q 3:195) So while the Qur`an holds the works of men and women in .
equal regard and acknowledges that they are completely interdependent to their .
very existence, They are not regarded as having equal worth as people. The fact .
that men are a step above the women and superior to them is evident in the .
following verses. "And it is for the women to act as they (the husbands) act by .
them, in all fairness; but the men are a step above them."(Q 2:228) "Men have .
authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the .
other."(Q4:34) Women are thought of as being lower in intellect and spirituals .
in comparison to men. In the Quran it states, "And of His signs is that He .
created for you, of yourselves, spouses, that you may repose in them."(Q 30"21) .
This causes many Muslims to look at women as creations like the animals and .
plants and other useful things created by Allah. Muslims believe that women are .
lacking many of the traits that men possess. The believe that women are lacking .
gratitude as well as intelligence. The Hadith speaks of this subject saying, .
"Women are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favours and .
the good (charitable) deeds done to them. If you have always been good .
