Treatment of women in Islam & Hinduism : A comparative analysis

Author - Fuzail Ahmad

'Islam permits ill treatment of women' is an invective often hurled at Islam. Statistics from around the Islamic world is brought forth to establish the claim. People often forget that the permission and the prohibition in Islam is not taken from the cultural norms prevailing in any geographical area in the world, But from the guidance, The Almighty has sent down to man. 

Let's see what the primary text of Islam 'Quran' has to say about the treatment of wife - 

*Don’t Mind, But Why Do You Wear This? Answering logically and religiously*

My Dear Sisters, who have accepted Hijaab as their way of living, we often face many questions on Hijaab from non-Muslims, be it our friends, neighbors, classmates, colleagues or just co-travelers. Questions like- "Why do you wear this?", "Is it compulsory?", "How can you wear that in such a hot weather?", "You have got such nice and beautiful hair, what's the point hiding it?", "Why don't you remove it?", "Come on! It’s not like everyone is going to look at you!", "Why so much restrictions to women only?"