APRIL 20 A Witness

mean the end of family life and, ultimately, of all social relations. Humanity as a whole would suffer. The division of labour relates not only to men and women but is also a general principle upon which the whole system of nature is based. When you establish a business house where many people have to work, you have to keep some people in the office to look after the office work, while some people have to be sent out to look after the field work. This division of labour is necessary to run any business successfully. If the workers of any factory or organization are not willing to accept this arrangement, that enterprise will certainly fail. The same is true of ordinary living. For God has planned things so that men and women together will make them work. Then He has created (men and women) with the special abilities necessary to perform the jobs assigned to his or her sphere. Now both reason and the shari‘ah demand that each sex should be willing to remain in his or her sphere and to perform the assigned tasks. Man should not try to imitate woman, and vice versa. Those men and women who show their willingness to make this arrangement a success will, by the help of God, be rewarded in this life as well as in the next.