Dr. Hossam Badrawi writes in Al-Masry Al-Youm: Egyptian women lead society

Dr. Hossam Badrawi writes in Al-Masry Al-Youm: Egyptian women lead society

The educated young man said: We know that you have been supportive of women and youth issues throughout your life, and we have some questions about your position.

I said: Bring what you have.

He said: Do you agree to give women exceptional rights by setting a quota for them in parliament and localities?

I said: I agree with what the world called positive discrimination, and for one or two cycles until women take their natural place after centuries of negative discrimination against them. In a just race, we cannot start a woman from a point later than men, due to a culture that spanned through generations, and we imagine that she will compete fairly.. Positive discrimination is a duty, but for a specific period of time.

Another young woman said: Have you not historically had a place for women, Doctor, in Egyptian society?

I said: It is not true. In every historical event, the Egyptian woman had a place, but things are not measured at the expense of the moment or the exceptions that showed the character of the Egyptian woman. For example, two things stick in my mind from the history of the 19th revolution in Egypt as a child, from the history of teaching the revolution and from the movies, but the image is the marriage of the crescent and the cross and the participation of Egyptian women in sound, image and influence.

Two images stuck in my mind on 6/30, namely, the participation of the Egyptian woman and her voice louder than the voice of men and the embrace of the crescent and the cross.

The Egyptian woman is great and extraordinary as a farmer and as a laborer, and when she was given education, she excelled and excelled, and when she headed the country in our Pharaonic history, she was inspired and led. And when she married the prophets Ibrahim and Muhammad, she gave birth to the grandfather of the Arabs, Ismail and Muhammad, may God have mercy on him, when he was a young boy. And when she decided and preserved, she protected Moses from being killed, and the Jews would not have existed without the wife of Pharaoh, who embraced and brought up. The Egyptian woman has the genes of civilization and capabilities that must be liberated from backward restrictions imposed on her by seclusion behind men..

Another young man said: What about the opinion of religion?

I said: He who understands religion knows that it does not differentiate between humans and that all have the same rights and have the same duties.

Another young woman said: But we inherit half of the man, isn’t this discriminatory against her?

I said: The woman inherits half of the man, so she can save it all for herself and not spend anything from it, and the man remains responsible for all spending, otherwise he has no guardianship. Spend” – and if we look at the matter from the point of view of Western thought, it would have been necessary for the man to inherit everything as long as he would remain responsible for all the spending. The other all the responsibility. My daughter, if men take the right and do not take responsibility, then they have neither authority nor right.

From my understanding, the Qur’an did not degrade the woman’s status in any aspect of her public life or her domestic life, but rather raised her from the level she had fallen to in previous civilizations and the beliefs of nations that were affected by those civilizations before the advent of Islam, all of which were not satisfactory to women and did not bear She has absolute respect. The woman in the Roman civilization was subordinate to her the rights of the minor and she had no independent rights at all. In the Indian civilization, she was an obstacle to salvation from bodily life, and her right to life ended with the expiration of the husband’s term. The woman in the ancient Egyptian civilization had a share of dignity that allowed her to sit on the throne, but the same civilization spread in it the doctrine of sin after birth and it was common in it that the woman is the cause of this sin and the successor of Satan, and there is no salvation for the soul except by escaping from it.

The Bedouin life in the Arab pre-Islamic era gave women some freedom, because they were watering, grazing and extracting food, but the same livelihood desired the fathers for the offspring of sons and to abstain from them, not the offspring of daughters, and it was common to kill girls after their birth out of shame out of shame.

Women in the European Dark Ages were second-class creatures, forfeited of their rights and subservient to men, treated badly and sometimes brutally.

And the Noble Qur’an comes to say in Surat Al-Baqarah: “And for them they have the like of what they are obligated to do with kindness.”

The issue is that life moves, and we have to consider the variables of time in order to reach the justice that religion put forward more than a thousand years ago as a principle.

What I mean by my words is that every right has a responsibility, and if a person does not bear his responsibilities, then he has no right, be it a man or a woman.

Another young man said: So, it is a competition between women and men regarding the available livelihood.

I said: Rather, it is an integration between humans to create new livelihoods, and a strength for the community to use its full energies, not just half of it.

A young woman said: But what protects women in this time from male tyranny?

I said: Knowledge is knowledge, and knowledge. Every family should arm its daughters with science and knowledge. There is no way to protect rights without that.