The right of ordinary women to be treated as crows  

Ghazali

The Prophet said : The example of a religious woman among general is that of a crow with white belly among the crows.…(volume 2, p.34)  

The right of a Muslimah to be stupid and to become servants  

Sahih Bukhari

Majority of women are in hell because they are deficient in intelligence...1.6.301  

Ghazali

They (women, servants) are evil and posses little intelligence…(volume 2, p.34)  

Muslim women forfeit their right to travel alone  

Sahih Bukhari

A woman should not travel alone for more than three days except without her Mahram...2.20.192, 193

A woman cannot travel without her husband or Dhi-Mahram, no man can visit her....3.29.85

A man is not permitted to be alone with a woman; a woman cannot travel alone…4.52.250  

Abdur Rahman I Doi, the recognized authority on Sharia, in his book ‘Women in Society’, writes:  

A husband has the legal right to restrict his wife's freedom of movement. He may prevent her from leaving her home without his permission unless there is a necessity or legitimate reason for her to do otherwise. However, it is his religious obligation to be compassionate and not to unreasonably restrict her freedom of movement. If there arises a conflict between this right of the husband and the rights of the wife's parents to visit her and be visited by her, the husband's right prevails in the wider interest of the family. Yet the Shari'ah recommends that he be considerate enough to waive his rights to avoid shame within the family. (Prof. Abdur Rahman I. Doi Professor and Director, Center for Islamic Legal Studies, Ahmadu Bello University,  Zaira, Nigeria.   *  

Women must keep their sexual organs ready at all times for the husband to enjoy them unhindered at any time—night or day  

Sahih Bukhari

The angels curse a woman for refusing to have sex with her husband…4.54.460

Marriage gives a man the right to enjoy a woman's private parts...7.62.81  

Sahih Muslim

Allah gets displeased with the woman who does not immediately respond when her husband demands sex from her…8.3367, 3368           

Ghazali

A wife should not refuse her husband if he wants to enjoy her body. If the wife of a man dies while he is pleased with her she will enter paradise. If a man wants sex his wife must comply with him even she is on the back of a camel. A woman cannot keep optional fast without her husband’s permission. If she does God will not accept her fast…(volume 2, p.43)  

Women have the right to breast-feed an unrelated bearded man to make him haram

Sahih Muslim

A woman can suckle a grown up bearded man so that she becomes haram for him (i.e. she cannot get married to him)…8.3424, 3425, 3426, 3427, 3428

Women are slaves (prisoners) and men are their masters (owners)  

Ghazali

Women are prisoners in a man’s hand. Men have taken them as trusts from God and God has made their sexual parts lawful for men…(volume 2, p.33)  

Hedaya

A woman is a servant and the husband is the person served---(p.47)  

“Case of marriage on a condition of service from the husband.—IF ……………it is not lawful that a woman should be in a situation to exact the service of her husband who is a freeman, as this would amount to a reversal of their appointed stations, for one of the requisites of marriage is, that the woman be as a servant, and the man as the person served; but if the service of the husband to the wife were to constitute her dower, it would follow that the husband is the servant and the wife as the served: and this being a violation of the requisites of marriage, is therefore illegal; but it is otherwise with the service stipulated to be performed by another free person, with that person’s consent, as this offers no violence to the requisites of the contract; and so also in the case of service of a slave, because the service performed by a slave to his wife is, in fact, performed to his master, by whose consent it is that he undertakes it; and the same with the case of tending flocks, because this is a service of a permanent nature, and admitted to be performed for wives, and therefore, does not violate the requisites of marriage; for the service of the husband to his wife, as a dower, is prohibited only as it may be degrading to the former; but the tending of flocks is not a degrading office.”

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