Feminism means man and woman should
have equal rights in terms of getting education, equal
shares in property and in salary but in our culture and
society, people especially women perceive wrong concept
of feminism and now this concept is going in wrong
direction.
As we have seen in “Aurat March” women took different
placards in their hands and ill-suited sentences were
written on them like “Apna khana khood garam kar lo”,
“Tmhara moza kahan he mjhe kya pata” and lab lab lab.
Such acts don’t show feminism and women empowerment but
to show pettiness and triviality of minds.
Somehow media is also responsible at the back of wrong
concept of feminism like if I talk about morning shows
so often we see that the host of the show gathers some
victim women and listen pathetic stories. In the end of
the show it is concluded that woman doesn’t need to be
suppressed and she should be an independent individual
so on the name of feminism the only solution of the
problem is separation or divorce is given instead of
helping the victim woman like providing counselling,
producing solution of the problem or providing job to
improve her life.
Why do we forget our Islamic teachings? Islam talks
about the equality and doesn’t talk about only
masculinity and femininity because Allah has made man
and woman interdependent not independent. The thing
which we need to understand that Islam gives superiority
and more power to man but Islamic teachings do not say
man has rights to disrespect a woman, to beat a woman,
woman doesn’t have shares in property and woman can’t
get education. Islam gives respect, rights and
protection to woman.
We need to understand this thing that it is a woman who
builds up the mindsets in this sense that mother is that
woman who teaches her children the difference between
right and wrong so she has to teach her son and daughter
equality and how to treat a man/woman or respect a
man/woman. Mother should teach her daughter that man has
more power over woman but if she is tortured or
tormented by a man so how she can raise her voice and
ask for her rights in an appropriate manner. Mother
should teach her son also that although man has more
power but the more power means he has more
responsibilities towards woman and he should treat a
woman with respect and love.
So, it is rightly said that Feminism includes all
genders.