Women in Nature

hen the field of study is limited to nature and the researcher merely tries to clarify woman’s status there, the first step is to refer to the most important natural laws, values, and principles. In this way, we will be able to discover and compare woman’s place at different levels of natural values with the laws of nature and nature itself, and, in this way, learn about the extent of woman’s value and her known and unknown roles in nature.

If we follow this approach and study all natural laws and principles, we can conclude that the most important natural law is nothing but the ‘survival of species’. This is a point that is easily understood by everyone.

The circle of life in animate beings is based on the ‘survival of generations’, and this law is practically the most important and basic of all natural laws. In fact, it is the law underlying God’s creation of the world. Otherwise, the circle of being, whether in humans or in other living things, would come to a bitter end and the human species and other animate beings would be annihilated one after the other. A study of the life of living existents, from insects to more complete ones, reveals how, on the basis of their instincts (which are considered animate beings’ hardware) and unconsciously, they try almost all their lives to survive, reproduce, and create a new generation to continue living in this world after them. They truly insist on and are serious about protecting their own species in the world.

Although observing the law of preserving the generation and reproduction is apparently necessary for both the male and female of each species, when it comes to human beings, the greatest responsibility is on woman’s shoulders. She is the center of reproducing, feeding, and protecting the generation. She plays the major role in the formation of the zygote and bearing the difficulties of pregnancy. Here, she is like farm land that is harvested by the man. Clearly, the land plays a greater role in this partnership.

A short scrutiny of the above conclusion will lead us to two natural principles: 1) woman has a central role in the field of nature and shoulders the crucial and basic responsibility for preserving humanity; 2) woman’s most important duty is to become a mother, give birth to children, bring them up, and protect their health. Other duties are outside the domain of her natural ones.

God has set the principles of nature in a way that each existent must perform a natural and universal duty. To aid the existent in this task, He has provided it with all the necessary tools, facilities, and emotions. For example, if we pay attention to woman’s physical and emotional structures, we see that all of her inward and outward features have been created in a way to aid her in performing this mission and duty in the best possible way and with the highest degree of motivation and enthusiasm.

A woman’s physical structure, including her reproduction system, which goes from her brain down to her knees and includes different organs, nerves, and a part of her cerebrum, her height, width of shoulders, flexibility of muscles, and pelvis, has been designed so that she can comfortably perform duties such as nursing children and live her normal life. Exactly for the same reasons, she should not become involved in difficult tasks such as fighting and doing jobs requiring a powerful body and muscles. Of course, it is possible for women to do such chores and harsh jobs, but they are difficult for them and not at all in harmony with their spirits.

A woman’s psychological structure is also delicate and sensitive like her body. On the one hand, she loves to have children[1] and can attract men towards herself by using her charms. Moreover, by arousing the instinct that God has placed in men for this very purpose, she can make him help in reproduction and satisfy her natural needs. On the other hand, in spite of all the difficulties of pregnancy and childbirth, she welcomes them wholeheartedly and takes delight in feeding babies and nursing and taking care of them.

These features show a woman’s role in the field of nature and reveal how God has placed all the necessary tools and prerequisites for the survival of humanity in women by the hand of nature. Here, men are one of the required tools for the correct implementation of this task. Therefore, unlike what is commonly believed, the heroes of the field of nature are women rather than men. This is because they hold the main key of nature, i.e. the survival and preservation of generations, and men play only a secondary role, i.e. helping women in providing the prerequisites, forming the zygote, and protecting the family.

It is due to this very role that we learn about women’s value in nature and the world. The reason is that the real value of everything depends on the importance of its role, the natural need for it, and the dangers resulting from its absence.

However, why should such a great value remain hidden in the course of history even to women themselves? Why has no other religion, school, or ideology apart from Islam shown its importance and introduced it? An attempt to weaken women might be one of the reasons. The other is their great number and 50 percent presence in all societies. In the economic sense of the word, the wide offer of something or its abundance lowers its value for superficial people. Great presence of things and people decreases their value and turns them into normal and even cheap things and individuals.

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