Educational Rights of Woman in Islam

This paper focuses on exploring the educational rights of women in Islam. With the advent of Islam, circumstances improved for the woman. The woman‟s dignity and humanity was restored. Islam considered the woman as a worthy human being, with a share in humanity equal to that of the man. Islam gave true and due rights to women 1400 years ago when there was ignorance and darkness. Thus, Islam uplifted the status of the women in the society in all respects. The woman‟s right to seek education or learning is basic and is also guaranteed by Islamic teachings. Islam actually makes it incumbent on the woman to seek knowledge. The Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) says, “Seeking knowledge is incumbent upon every Muslim”, where “every Muslim” obviously involves men and women on an equal footing and as a rule formalized by all authorities of jurisprudence. We have examples of hundreds of Muslim noble women who were great scholars. The best example is Mother Ayesha (R.A). One of her very famous student whose name was Urwa(R.A), stated : "I have not seen any scholar greater than Ayesha (R.A) in Quranic sciences, obligatory duties(Faraid), in lawful and un-lawful (Hala O Haram) things, in literature, in poetry, in Arabic history, science of inheritance, Mathematics etc. Just imagine the days when people were hardly educated, we have no. of examples of women who were highly educated, learned and scholars of that time in both religious and worldly knowledge.