Authority of Men on Women in the Family

Document Type : Original Article

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The relationship of men and women has throughout the history been persistently along  with opperession and bullying. Such behavior has caused a phenomenon which came to be called Feminism, which in turn led to another factor of deprivation for women.
In this regard, the Muslims' manners and thought are severely confused and require to be revised. This article, seeking to obtain the Qur'ans viewpoint on the outhority of man, deliberates over the God-granted virtues and in this way establishes the equal and reciprocal rights of men and women. Authority, which in the own right, involves safeguarding and custoday, becomes objective only by standards of equity, being God-pleasing, and compassion in the from of playing the role of a housewife and fulfillment of the husband's rights, which is then led to women's consistency of personality.