Women weaker/lower than men? Never.

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Ive again been surprised by fellow brothers of my faith claiming that women are inferior in our religion, because they bleed which means a sign of weakness, because they have to give birth thus because they are weaker. What the Fu*k, You say? So do I. To imagine a woman every period manages to go to work, take care of her family, teach her children, even though she is bleeding and unwell, she goes on with her life. That shows just the opposite, that a woman has strenght. Now childbirth=weakness? Unless a man has ever felt what it is like to carry a sack of rice in front of him for months, have a melon come out from his nether regions, endure 6-40 hours of pain to give birth, I cant believe any man would be so ignorant as to claim a woman is weak. Now religion says that she is weak because of it? Think again. In Islam, a woman´s pain and suffering is aknowledge by god, and by the prophet. . A woman´s dedication to domestic life is equivalent to the glory of a fighter returning from a war. · When a woman is pregnant with a child, all the angels will make Istighfar (repentance) on her behalf. God will, for each day of her pregnancy, write for her 1000 good deeds and erase from her 1000 bad deeds. . A breastfeeding woman gets one good for each drop of milk that is fed to the child. .When a husband comes home full of worries and the wife extends warm welcome to him and consoles him; she receives the reward of half a spiritual/physical struggle (jihad) .A woman, who is deprived of sleep owing to her child crying at night, receives the reward of freeing 20 slaves .A chaste woman who is mindful of namaaz and roza, also makes khidmat for her husband, for her all the 8 doors of jannat are opened . She may enter from whichever doors she likes. · When a pregnant woman starts to feel the pain from contractions, God will write in her records as someone who is doing a spiritual or physical struggle in his path (jihad). · When a woman becomes pregnant by her husband, she obtains the reward of a person engaging in fasting for Allah SWT and a person spending the night in ibaadah (worship). · A woman from the time of pregnancy until childbirth and weaning the baby, is like the Mujahid (someone fighting in the path of Allah, swa) who is stationed on the frontiers of the Islamic land. If she dies during this period, she dies the death of a shahid (martyr). · Two raka'at (bows) salaat performed by a pregnant woman is better than 80 raka'at salaat performed by others. · A woman who is pregnant gets the reward of fasting during the day and of doing ibaadah (worship) during the nights. · A woman who gives birth gets the reward of 70 years of salaat (prayer) and fasting. For each vein that feels pain, God gives her the reward of one accepted hajj (Pilgrimage to Makkah). · If the woman dies within 40 days of giving birth, she will die as a shahid (matyr) and get access to heaven, regardless of her past. .A woman that dies in her virginity or during her pregnancy or at the time of birth or thereafter (in nifaas) will attain the rank of a martyr .When her labour pains commences, the inhabitants of the earth and the sky are unaware of the stores of comfort that are prepared for her. When she delivers and breast feeds her child, then she will be granted a reword for every gulp of milk, if she had to remain awake during the night for the sake of the child, she will receive the reword of emancipating (freeing) seventy slaves in the path of God. Now, if God and the prophet ackowledge over and over the greatness of a woman´s everyday life and shows how highly rewarded she will be, who are we men to claim they are weaker than us? My apologies for the harsh words, but being the son of a single mother, I have seen first hand just how strong a woman can be.