THE BOSS AT HOME

family to function as an efficient unit, there has to be full cooperation between husband and wife. Otherwise, it would 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 work, you have to assign some people to look after the office work, while some people have to be sent out to look after the fieldwork. This division of labour is necessary to run any business efficiently and 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 everyday life. 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 their sphere. Now both reason and Islam demand that each gender should be willing to remain in their sphere and 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. o 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. If you want to be a success in this world, the first thing you have to do is to display enough courage to welcome failures.