The book highlights the conceptual difference about
women in Islam and in the west by analyzing that the
evils of Muslim Society stems from the gap between
principle and practice, whereas the evils of western
society are the result of a clash between principles and
realities. Western civilization has formed principles
independent of religious principles.
The status of woman in Islam is the same as that of
man. Injunctions about honor and respect enjoined
for one sex are enjoined equally for the other sex. So
far as rights in this world and rewards in the Hereafter
are concerned, there is no difference between the sexes.
In the organization of daily living, both are equal
participants and partners. Yet Islam sees man as man
and woman as woman and, considering the natural
differences, it advocates the principle of the division of
labor between the two sexes rather than the equality
of labor.