Dealing with women before ISLAM
Sorry to say that women rights were in an absolute absence before ISLAM. If you want to say complete oppression, so you will be quite right. Let's take the tribe of Prophet Muhamed pbuh as an example, "Qurish tribe" wherein:
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In general females were buried alive directly after delivery, because arabs were afraid to bring shame to their family names.
Read this illustrating noble verse (16/58): "And when one of them is informed of [the birth of] a female, his face
becomes dark, and he suppresses grief"
(16/59): "He hides himself from the people because of the ill of which he has been informed. Should he keep it in
humiliation or bury it in the ground? Unquestionably, evil is what they decide"
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Women were beaten by their husbands severely.
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Women were taken as captives in wars and considered as right hands possess to their males masters, who were free to do whatever they want to them.
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When a husband dies, the heirs took his wives as an inheritance among his property and wealth.
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Husbands can forbid their wives from eating what they like.
Read this noble verse (6/139): "And they say, "What is in the bellies of these animals is exclusively for our males and forbidden to our females. But if it is [born] dead, then all of them have shares therein." He will punish them for their description. Indeed, He is Wise and Knowing"
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When a father or mother die, their girls are not allowed to inherite them.
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Even in marriage, femals should not say their opinions whether it is yes or no.
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In case of divorce, husbands take away everything they have given to their wives including the dowry.
ALLAH said in the Noble Quran (4/20): "But if you want to replace one wife with another and you have
given one of them a great amount [in gifts], do not take [back] from it
anything. Would you take it in injustice and manifest sin?"
