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a meeting with a group of women, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khamenei, explained the logical and rational view of Islam regarding the various dimensions of the presence of women in the family and their unlimited activity in society, politics and management at various levels.
The meeting took place in the Imam Khomeini Hussainiyah on Wednesday, December 27, 2023, a week before the birth anniversary of Lady Fatimah Zahra (pbuh), which also marks Women’s Day on the Iranian calendar.
The Leader considered the identity of a woman, her values, rights, duties, freedoms and limitations as a vital and very pivotal issue, while underlining that there are two general approaches to women’s issues in the world that oppose each other – a Western approach and an Islamic approach.
Imam Khamenei explained that the Western civilizational and cultural system often avoids discussions that revolve around women’s issues. He further added because Westerners have no logic regarding women, they try to convey their point of view through controversies, through rowdyism, by paying political and non-political figures to say what they want, by using art, literature, and cyberspace as tools, and by dominating international centers that are related to women.
While noting that the official statistics on moral corruption in the West is appalling, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution raised a question about the West’s conduct towards women: “Why is it that every issue that destroys families becomes more highlighted in the West every day, while, in contrast to this, we see no condemnation or serious action being taken against the perpetrators who attack women that wear a hijab?”
Imam Khamenei asserted that Islam’s approach to the issue of women is based on logic and reasoning and is the exact opposite of the Western approach.
“The issue of women is one of the strengths of Islam and it should not be presumed that we need to provide answers for issues relating to women,” he added.
The Leader considered gender equality with regards to a person’s dignity and values as one of the constituents of Islam’s strong rationale. “With regards to human values and spiritual ascension, neither gender is favored over the other.”
In addition to this, he added that, “In the fields of spirituality, God has even sometimes preferred women over men in the Quran and introduced women such as the Pharaoh’s wife [Asiya] and Maryam [the mother of Jesus (pbuh)] as role models for all believers.”
