Urgent Need for Ijtihad in our times

Urgent Need for Ijtihad in our times

By Dr Asghar Ali Engineer

The Quran also declared gender equality when it says, “And women have rights similar to those against them in a just manner.” (2:228). These are revolutionary declarations. The world realised equal dignity of human beings, gender equality and freedom of conscience only in the 20th century whereas Islam had declared this more than 1,400 years ago.

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