Understanding the Role of Religion in Helping Muslim Women in Managing Family Crisis During the COVID-19 pandemic
Keywords:
COVID-19, Muslim Women, Mother, Psychological, Mental, SocialAbstract
The COVID-19 has had a huge effect on the psychological, social and the mental health of the Muslim women. Their responsibility has tripled from working, to adopting the role of the teacher and care giving and domestic chores. The family is in Islam is the basic institution of the society where the woman is at the center stage. The Muslim woman has a prominent status that is in line with her physical, psychological and mental creation of Allah, these traits gives her the capacity to take on the formation and the management of the family affairs. Women as wives and mothers have faced with challenging responsibilities and need the social and spiritual nourishment to sustain their mental health and to give support, care and guidance to their loved ones. This social and spiritual support is provided by the religion of Islam, which teaches the total submission to the will of Allah, who is the creator, controller and the sustainer of the whole universe. The purpose of this article is to understand how the religion of Islam helped the Muslim women in managing the family crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. What support and contribution has religion provided to the Muslim women to achieve their objectives and to carry out their role as leaders? It is hoped that this study will make Muslim women to learn their religion well and to nurture their children with the abilities and give them an intellectual awareness to tackle the challenges and the obstacles that surround them. The mother has the duty to inculcate good values and principles in their children in order to lead a safe future life.
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