Addressing Injustice to Women in Bangladeshi Families: An Examination of the Issue and Islamic Solutions

Abstract

Women are indispensable to human civilization's survival and society's growth. Islam distinguishes women as equal partners of males in society and validates their proper standing. In Bangladesh, a woman's human rights are violated in her roles as a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother. This study has been conducted using a qualitative approach, and data has been gathered through document analysis. It aims to identify the various forms of inequity against women in Bangladeshi families and examine solutions from an Islamic perspective, highlighting their rights at all stages of life. Its findings demonstrate the potential of Islam to provide guidelines for challenging detrimental cultural norms that continue injustice against women and for advancing their rights and roles in society by describing Islamic solutions for injustice in the womb when the baby appears as a daughter. Then it becomes more apparent with prejudiced behavior by parents and then sexual harassment by neighbors and relatives and so on; Islamic directions to abolish the injustice to a wife that starts from the first day of marriage till death by imposing dowry and by continuous physical and mental inhuman torture for intense housework, mistreatment to a mother and sisters that are often observed in the societies of Bangladesh.