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Now, I would like to make one final comment and then I\u2019ll leave it open for questions. Let\u2019s look at the applicabilities of both of these programs. We discussed a lot of ideas, thoughts and beliefs and historical concepts, but when they are actually applied, which of the two view points is more successful? \u00a0Which brings more bliss to humanity? \u00a0Is it the secular western view or is it the Islamic view? \u00a0I have a concrete example which I\u2019d like to share with you. When I was in Beijing this last summer for the UN 4th world conference on women, there was a platform for action which was being discussed by the different nations and organizations there. The aim of the platform for action was to upraise, uplift, and to embetter the status of women around the world, which are of course noble and correct aims; there is no contention concerning that.\u00a0 The platform for action was divided into different areas of concentrations, such as poverty, health, finances, conflicts and violence and so forth, and one of which was the young girl.\u00a0 The 12th issue of the 12 concerned areas for the platform for action concerned the young girl and the status of girls – future women – in the world today.\u00a0 The country which was hosting the conference, China is known for the practice of killing girls.<\/span><\/strong> The reason why is because of their large population.\u00a0 Chinese couples are allowed only one child and Chinese people by tradition view males as fewer than females, so as a result will usually kill the female child, in hope that the wife gives birth to a boy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This is an issue which exists and due to the fact that host was China, the United Nations didn\u2019t really want to get into this issue, nor \u00a0want to talk about it much because it was not politically correct to address that issue in China.\u00a0 Moreover, even though they might have passed certain regulations, platforms for actions and certain commitments which they have required upon citizens of the world to follow, most likely in the end perhaps in twenty-five to fifty years, the status of the children in the world will not have markedly improved.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n One of the major reasons why the United Nations was created for after World War II, was the slaughter of so many human beings, including six million Jews in Europe, and yet fifty years later, in the year of the fiftieth celebration of the UN, a genocide in Bosnia, Europe took place.\u00a0 All the human rights acts, all of the declarations in the last fifty years and yet a massacre still occurred.\u00a0 Now when the prophet Muhammad – may God raise his name – was sent to the Arabs, the Arabs had the same practice of killing their young daughters.\u00a0 Arabs would do such an act for a numerous reasons, most of the time due to poverty.\u00a0 Being a desert people without industry and with little means of trade, life was very difficult.\u00a0 As a result, out of fear of poverty they would kill their young daughters and bury them alive.\u00a0 This is a fact that is mentioned in the Quran and was well known during the time of the prophet Muhammad, may God raise his name.\u00a0 In the Quran, God condemns the killing of young girls, the burying of them in the ground, and also the attitudes of the Arabs towards girls.\u00a0 One verse in the Quraan says that:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen he is given the good news that his wife is given birth to a female child, a girl – his face becomes blackened and he becomes ashamed. <\/span>With shame does he hide himself from his people, because of the bad news he has had! \u00a0Shall he retain it on (sufferance and) contempt, or bury it in the dust? \u2026\u201c Quran (16:58-59)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This is a condemnation of such a practice.\u00a0 Likewise many of the companions of the prophet Muhammad – may God raise his name – before they accepted Islam, killed their daughters.\u00a0 One man came to prophet Muhammad – may God raise his name – and said: \u201cI killed ten of my daughters in my lifetime, will I receive paradise? \u00a0For will God accept my repentance for this sin, now that I have left this pagan religion of before, worshipping idols and killing girl children and so forth?\u201d \u00a0Within one generation, within 23 years (the duration that the prophet preached amongst the Arabs), the practice of killing girls ended and no \u00a0longer existed in Arabia.\u00a0 Likewise, it didn\u2019t just stop there, but a change in attitude came towards women, in all aspects.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In the Hereafter, people receive no other reward, but paradise.\u00a0 Again that is the greatest aim for Muslims and that is their motivation and reason of being.\u00a0 So Islam not only tried removing the negative aspect of people murdering their own daughters, but also included the positive aspect of educating girls and raising them in society; which brings me to my final point.\u00a0 Human rights is something of course that we can look at the previous declarations of human rights, irrespective of whether these are true or false, but they have not been able to achieve the aims which they have stated, as the example of human rights, and the mass killings of civilians in Bosnia shows.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In conclusion, Islamic civilization unlike any other civilization is based, of course on revelation, but it is in its essence supported and founded by women.\u00a0 The first person to believe in Prophet Muhammad \u2013 may God raise his name – was his wife Khadeejah, and it was through her money and through her support and encouragement of him that the prophet was able to spread the message of Islam in his first year of prophecy.\u00a0 The pagans did not have the ideas of freedom of religion, that one can hold their own beliefs.\u00a0 Such was not practiced by the pagans of Arabia – they saw this as an insurrection, they saw this as a changing of their ways, so they sought to stop it out by torture, by killing and by other means that they could.\u00a0 And likewise, they tried to stop the Islamic revelation, this tradition, when the prophet Muhammad – may God raise his name – preached at first the people of Arabia.\u00a0 Yet as a result from Muhammad\u2019s message, there are over one billion Muslims in the world today.\u00a0 They are in every single continent of the world, even in Beijing where the UN was convening.\u00a0 There was a mosque there which is over a thousand years old.\u00a0 This shows how the growth of Islam and the sprit of Islam is not just a Middle Eastern phenomenon or an Arabian phenomenon but extends to all people and races throughout the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Where is this teaching from? \u00a0Of course when prophet Muhammad – may God raise his name – died after twenty three years of preaching Islam, Islam only spread in Arabia.\u00a0 Islam was mostly spread by four or five individuals who happened to be close to the prophet.\u00a0 One of them was the prophet\u2019s wife `Aa\u2019isha.\u00a0 She is among the most to have narrated his statements and likewise she is amongst the three, four, five who have mostly given religious pronouncements, given religious verdicts, and explained verses of the Quraan, as well as sayings of the prophet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n If one looks at any other civilization in the history of humanity, seldom will they find women playing a role in its establishment where it can be attributed to her efforts for its establishment.\u00a0 The famous Greeks \u2013 like at the philosophers Plato, Aristotle and others – were all men.\u00a0 The early church fathers writings\u2019 were done by men and until today the idea of women scholarship is limited in some areas of the church.\u00a0 The French writers at the French revolution and Voltaire and the Russians were men.\u00a0 The founding fathers of the United States were me.\u00a0 Islam is the only civilization which is known by humanity where a leading input in terms of its transmission and establishment was based upon the efforts of women.\u00a0 Central – and this is an historical matter which is not open to interpretation, it is a fact – these are the people who transmitted the prophet\u2019s teachings, these are the people who supported it hereafter.\u00a0 Those are just some thoughts and impressions concerning how Islam uplifted women.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Ref. www.islamreligion.com \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Now, I would like to make one final comment and then I\u2019ll leave it open for questions. 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