CHAPTER II.
STATE OF WOMEN IN THE MOHAMMADAN WORLD.
Our knowledge of the position of women among the Mohammedans is derived from the Koran, Moslem tradition, and Moslem practice.
I.In the first place, the Koran does not teach that women have no souls.

Not only was Mohammed too deeply indebted to his rich wife Khadijah, to venture such an assertion, but he actually teaches in the Koran the immortality and moral responsibility of women.

One of his wives having complained to him that God often praised the men, but not the women who had fled the country for the faith, he immediately produced the following revelation: "I will not suffer the work of him among you who worketh to be lost, whether he be male or female." (Sura iii.) In Sura iv.

it is said: "Whoso doeth good works, and is a true believer, whether male or female, shall be admitted into Paradise." In Sura xxxiii: "Truly, the Muslemen and the Muslimate, (fem.) The believing men and the believing women, The devout men and the devout women, The men of truth and the women of truth, The patient men and the patient women, The humble men and the humble women, The charitable men and the charitable women, The fasting men and the fasting women, The chaste men and the chaste women, And the men and women who oft remember God; For them hath God prepared Forgiveness and a rich recompense." II.

Thus Mohammedans cannot and do not deny that women have souls, but their brutal treatment of women has naturally led to this view.