My dearest sisters, we have gathered today at this unprecedented, momentous conference, from different corners of the world, speaking in different languages but united with ONE voice and united with ONE message... that as Muslim women we do not see the Shariah as the cause of our subjugation but the path to our salvation from oppression, and the means to gain the Pleasure of our Rabb (swt), Al-Alim, Al-Azim, the…

Dearest sisters, the complicated and miserable problems experienced by women today under the democratic-capitalist system and all other man-made systems will end by the implementation of laws based on the Shariah of Islam. The poverty, violence, exploitation, and lack of proper educational, legal and political rights suffered by tens of millions of women in Indonesia and hundreds of millions of women across the Muslim world can only be stopped by…

  (1) INTRODUCTION: Dear sisters and distinguished guests, in the 1870's, French administrators trying to strengthen France's colonial rule over parts of the Muslim world recommended that French men marry Arab women. A supporter of this policy stated, "It is through women that we can get hold of the soul of a people".   The colonialists realised that within Muslim societies, women are the centre of the family, the backbone…

Muslim women were granted their full rights without having to resist and fight, and without carrying out marches and strikes for them. Islam and its rulings are equitable to women as human beings first and foremost. She was able to contribute positively and effectively in all aspects of life: political, economic and social, as well as in education and employment. This was at a time when women in the West…