Men Are the Protectors and Maintainers of Women 

Status of women in Islam | women rights 

Allah said,

الرِّجَالُ قَوَّامُونَ عَلَى النِّسَاء 

Men are the protectors and maintainers of women,

 

meaning, the man is responsible for the woman, and he is her maintainer, caretaker and leader who disciplines her if she deviates.

  

بِمَا فَضَّلَ اللّهُ بَعْضَهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ 

because Allah has made one of them to excel the other,

 

meaning, because men excel over women and are better than them for certain tasks. This is why Prophethood was exclusive of men, as well as other important positions of leadership.

 

The Prophet said,

لَنْ يُفْلِحَ قَوْمٌ وَلَّوْا أَمْرَهُمُ امْرَأَة 

People who appoint a woman to be their leader, will never achieve success.

 

Al-Bukhari recorded this Hadith.

 

Such is the case with appointing women as judges or on other positions of leadership.

  

وَبِمَا أَنفَقُواْ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ 

and because they spend from their means.

 

meaning the dowry, expenditures and various expenses that Allah ordained in His Book and the Sunnah of His Messenger for men to spend on women. For these reasons it is suitable that he is appointed her maintainer, just as Allah said,  

وَلِلرِّجَالِ عَلَيْهِنَّ دَرَجَةٌ 

 (But men have a degree (of responsibility) over them). (2:228)

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