Women in Islam3

As Muslims, we believe in the divineorigins of both. No one can be a 
Muslim without believing in Moses and Jesus as great prophets of God. 
My goal is only to vindicate Islam and pay a tribute, long overdue in the 
West, to the final truthful Message from God to the human race. I would 
also like to emphasize that I concerned myself only with Doctrine. That is, 
my concern is, mainly, the position of women in the three religions as it 
appears in their original sources notas practised by their millions of 
followers in the world today. 
Therefore, most of the evidence cited comes from the Quran, the sayings of 
Prophet Muhammad, the Bible, the Talmud,and the sayings of some of the 
most influential Church Fathers whose views have contributed 
immeasurably to defining and shaping Christianity. This interest in the 
sources relates to the fact that understanding a certain religion from the 
attitudes and the behaviour of some of its nominal followers is misleading. 
Many people confuse culture with religion, many others do not know what 
their religious books are saying, and many others do not even care. 

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PART 1 - EVE'S FAULT 
The three religions agree on one basic fact: Both women and men are 
created by God, The Creator of  the whole universe. However, 
disagreement starts soon after the creation of the first man, Adam, and the 
first woman, Eve. The Judaeo-Christian conception of the creation of 
Adam and Eve is narrated in detail in Genesis 2:4-3:24. God prohibited 
both of them from eating the fruits ofthe forbidden tree. The serpent 
seduced Eve to eat from it and Eve, in turn, seduced Adam to eat with her. 
When God rebuked Adam for what he did, he put all the blame on Eve, 
&quotThe woman you put here with me --she gave me some fruit from the 
tree and I ate it."; Consequently, God said to Eve: "I will greatly increase 
your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your 
desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you." To Adam He 
said: "Because you listened to your wifeand ate from the tree .... Cursed is 
the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the 
days of your life..." 
The Islamic conception of the first creation is found in several places in the 
Quran, for example: 
"O Adam dwell with your wife in the Garden and enjoy as you wish but 
approach not this tree or you run into harm and transgression. Then Satan 
whispered to them in order to reveal to them their shame that was hidden 
from them and he said: 'Your Lord only forbade you this tree lest you 
become angels or such beings as live forever.' And he swore to them both 
that he was their sincere adviser. So by deceit he brought them to their 
fall: when they tasted the tree their shame became manifest to them and 
they began to sew together the leaves of the Garden over their bodies. And 
their Lord called unto them: 'Did I not forbid you that tree and tell you that 
Satan was your avowed enemy?' They said: 'Our Lord we have wronged 
our own souls and if You forgive us not and bestow not upon us Your 

Mercy, we shall certainly be lost' " (Quran 7:19:23).