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learned from him, she taught to her friends and to her children. "
In summary, F; t*imah's life can be taken as an example of the
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struggling wife who lived to serve her family without this preventing
her from fulfilling her duty towards her society and actively participating
in public life. She was an ideal wife who stood patiently beside her
husband through the most rough situations, supporting and comforting
him.
At the same time, she was the ideal mother, who spent her life
bringing up her children in a healthy Islamic atmosphere. On the
other hand, she was the devoted daughter who suffered with
her father
and helped him in the most critical situations to spread his mission.
Through the exploration of her life, we can learn the ideal treatment
of the father towards his daughter and how Islam changed the old
concept about the father-daughter relationship.
The remainder of this survey covers a limited selection of some
female characters who played a vital active role in her most social
fields. They showed great courage and strength on behalf of the call
of Islam and the preservation of faith. The range may help show us
the extent to which Islam gives women the right to participate in
society.
Persecution elicited a consistently positive response from
early female converts whereas the biographies and sources all agree
that all oppressed men - except Bil7al bin Raah - sometimes out of
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necessity, hid their conversion to Islam and pretended to be unbelievers
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1. Waddy, op; cit.. P. 50* Bint al-Shatit op. cit-9 P. 160
Ibn Slad, op. cit., Vol. 8, p. * 420
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