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13.|Women and Work|

"Work" from Old English weorc, worc "something done, discreet act performed by someone, action (whether voluntary or required), proceeding, business; that which is made or manufactured, products of labor," also "physical labor, toil; skilled trade, craft, or occupation; opportunity of expending labor in some useful or remunerative way;" also "military fortification," it could also be from  Proto-Germanic werka- "work" (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch werk, Old Norse verk, Middle Dutch warc, Old High German werah, German Werk, Gothic gawaurki), from PIE (Proto IndoEuropean) werg- "to do." "Lavoro" in Italian from Latin labor, labor(is)
"fatigue, effort, pain, fatigue, breathlessness", is a vast subject that covers a wide range of topics of study such as sociology, politics, economics and law (beacuse its rules are managed amd carried by a contractual process held in order by the State Law).

The worker is a subordinate who renders services based on his methodical and manual skills to the employer to produce and dispense goods or services taking a monetary compensation or not in return for his employer.

The work, therefore, is a fatigue to which Islām does not subject the woman, as she is not only the personification of honor and respect, but also having a physique not adapt to fatigue and therefore a metaphor of delicacy, love, compassion and respect.

Allāh the Most Merciful has balanced the two sexes giving the man a robust physique but little mental capacity of tolerance and patience; on the contrary, the woman has been given a lean and delicate body, but with a high mental capacity of tolerance and patience.
Islām is a simple and natural religion that sanctions the laws taking into consideration the nature of those who will have to follow them; The One who sanctions them is the Creator Himself, and therefore the Sharī'ah could never fail to sanction Laws that do not fit with the human nature.

Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel, a nineteenth-century German philosopher who, with his vast and articulated triadic dialectics and the dialectic of the Master-Servant in particular in "The Phenomenology of the Spirit", defines work as a means of man's emancipation. The Master-Servant dialectics is a myth created by the philosopher in a purely allegorical way to demonstrate, after the objectification of one of the two consciences that has become Self-Consciousness, the relationship of mutual dependence and independence in ipse tempore between the master and the servant*: the dominant conscience (the Master, fearless towards death); the servile conscience (the Slave, submissive to the first, as overwhelmed by the fear of death and annihilation).

Hence, according to the Hegelian myth, the man, even before being emancipated, is a slave who works not for his own livelihood, but only for the interests of the Master; according to these preamble, the working man is a maltreated and abused slave.

Only after he has worked so well that it will be the existence of the Master to depend on the work of the Servant, the worker will emancipate, because, as mentioned, it is now the life of the first to have to depend on the work of the second which is now on the road to liberation from his slavery and from his fears and to become independent.

* N.B .: I apologize for the use of philosophical terms particularly technical for a large audience, but talking about Hegel it could not be done otherwise.
On the other hand, those who have had the opportunity to study and learn the German philosopher will be able to understand the intrinsic meaning of what was said. After the asterisk, however, that phraseological period was expanded for explanatory purposes, of course.

Note: Even though Hegel was not Russian, it is really interesting to notice how in Russian "work" is translated as "работа" (translit. Rabota) derived from "раб" (translit. Rab, pronounced as "rap") which means "slave".

Does this mean thar the woman does not emancipate herself?

The simplest and most obvious and prompt answer for those who know Islām is only one: since work is a fatigue and being enslaved to somebody's will, women are not slaves to anyone except the Almighty Allāh the Compassionate in the first place, so they do not need to emancipate themselves because they have been already emancipated from the Creator Himself as they must not bring home any money according to the Divine Law.

She can, however, do non-heavy works, which does not affect the body such as teaching, being a doctor, etc. with the only condition that she must provide her services to women only respecting the value of hijāb, discussed before and where there is no fear of mixture with the other gender.

Allāh the Almighty obliged man to seek his own sustenance and that of his family, not the woman: neither for herself, nor for others. She is independent of all the burdensome obligations. And that is why work, according to Sharī'ah, is obligatory for man only and not for woman; in the case of the latter it becomes a pure personal choice. A choice that is preferable to be implemented in extreme circumstances such as the death of the husband and after a failed attempt to marry for the second time and in absence of anybody could take care of her.

Husband-wife relationship: what is it based on?

The marital relationship is based on mutual respect and love. Neither man should make the woman wrong, nor the latter should do the former likewise. The wife will express this respect by means of her obedience and safeguarding her private parts from other men; on the other hand, her husband must to the same by means of love and fidelity, that is, safeguarding his private parts from other women and not making her or forcing her to work such as doing jobs etc., enhancing like this the role his wife assumes in his life and the honor given her by Allāh the Merciful.