The Wisdom of Creation

WOMEN AND ISLAM yourselves spouses so that you might find repose in them, and He created affection and kindness between you. (30:21) Thus, women and men are from the same species. Biologically speaking, women have not been extracted from the bodies of their male counterparts. God fashioned them according to His Will, just as He fashioned men by His Will and Power. Modern research has presented the facts on a purely academic level, that fundamental, inborn differences do exist between men and women. A detailed article on the ‘Status of Women’ in the Encyclopaedia Britannica includes a section on Scientific Studies of Male-Female differences. Here, the author points out physical differences in the respective constitutions of male and female forms of the human species. “Concerning personality traits,” he writes, “men are characterized by greater aggressiveness, dominance, achievement and motivation, women by greater dependency, a stronger social orientation and the tendency to be more easily discouraged by failure than men. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 19, p. 907) And there are many latter-day scientific experiments to back this up. Child specialists say that male-female differences are entirely genetic in nature. The delicateness found in women is due to the particular nature of the female hormone. Differences between male and female hormones exist from birth; they are not acquired later, as would be the case if they stemmed from environmental differences. The tenets of Islam are based wholly on nature. This