Gender Studies · Gender, development and rights. The idea in plain words, the rules to remember, the mistake to avoid and a worked example, written and checked by Mega Lecture.
Questions on this topic compare the position of women in pre-Islamic Arabia with the rights set out in the Quran and Sunnah. Before Islam, in many Arab tribes women had no fixed share in inheritance, widows could be inherited by the husband's relatives, there was no limit on the number of wives, and some families buried infant daughters alive.
Islam forbade these practices and gave the woman a legal personality of her own. She may own and manage property, receives mahr from her husband, has a fixed share in inheritance, must give her free consent to marriage, and is entitled to maintenance. The Quran promises the same spiritual reward to believing men and women.
Students describe mahr as a payment to the bride's family or confuse it with dowry (jahez). Mahr is paid by the husband to the wife herself and belongs to her alone.
Answer: The son receives Rs 45,000 and each daughter Rs 22,500.
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