With reference to the fact that basically Arab civilization more
than any other community and nation, is more prominent as being chivalrous to
women and is especially sensitive to their condition, how can it be accepted
that Umar bin Khattab beat up a woman, and that also Lady Fatima Zahra (s), the
beloved daughter of the Prophet and people having Arab chivalry did not display
any reaction?!
Can those who consider Arab chivalry to be an obstacle in attack
on the house of revelation provide a convincing reply for the following verses
of Quran and tell us where Arab chivalry was at the time of burying alive of female
infants?
The Holy Quran has mentioned in the following way the defect of
pre-Islamic Arabs in burying alive of female infants:
وَإِذَا الْمَوْؤُودَةُ
سُئِلَتْ {8} بِأَيِّ ذَنبٍ قُتِلَتْ {9}
“And when the female infant buried alive is asked. For
what sin she was killed.” (Surah Takwir 81:8-9)
Ibne Kathir Damishqi Wahabi has written in the interpretation of
the above verse:
Sometimes the people of pre-Islamic age, due to fear of poverty
and livelihood killed their children…’Maudah’ is a female infant who is buried
alive and it was the practice of pre-Islamic Arabs that in comparison to a son,
a daughter was considered unlucky.[1]
