ISLAM AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION

The paper is aimed at discussing the issue of gender discrimination and the position of Islam on it whether it is allowedf or any type of gender in the society to be treated unfairly and injustice manner based on his/her gender, when one studies Qur ’an and the Hadith of prophet (SAW) carefully he/she cannot link Islam with any attitude of discrimination, biased, maltreatment and injustice to fellow human beings including animals, insects and other creatures. But many people are discriminated in different part of the world at a contemporary time either because of their race, religion etc. It is vety essential to understand that Islam always demand justice to be done in treatment, interaction as well as passing judgments between people even if it is against one’ self parent, children or relath’es. The method used in conducting this research is the use of related literature in the library and interview, this paper is important as is would enlightened the public on the provision of Islam on doing justice to all without considering the religion such a person belong to, in this paper finding shows that people who discriminate others based on their gender did it as a result of selfishness and seeing selves as more superior and important than others. The paper concludes with some suggestions such as action should be taken against person or group of persons found discriminating against fellow human being and justice should prevail in all human interaction.