قبل از اسلام مشرکین عرب کا خاندانی نظام

Family System of Pre- Islamic Polytheist Arabs

الملخص

Before Islam, the family was based on mistreatment and oppression. All affairs were controlled only by men or in other words, the males, and women and girls were oppressed and humiliated. Women had no status of any kind other than as sex objects. The number of women a man could marry was not fixed. When a man died, his son “inherited” all his wives except his own mother. A savage custom of the Arabs was to bury their female infants alive. Even if an Arab did not wish to bury his daughter alive, he still had to uphold this “honorable” tradition, being unable to resist social pressures. Men were the only ones who could inherit; women and children had no share. They viewed women, whether they were mothers, daughters or sisters, as a source of  Shame because they could be taken as prisoners, thus bringing shame upon the family. Hence a man would bury his infant daughter alive. The family in the broader sense, i.e., the tribe, was based on supporting one another in all things, even in wrongdoing.