International Women’s Day: March 8th Commemorates Women’s Rights and Peace:

International Women’s Day is an event that is celebrated on 8th March all over the world. Women’s Day date (8 March) is also honored in Pakistan and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. Women from all continents are habitually separated by linguistic, cultural, ethnic, financial, and political peculiarity. Women have been involved in a struggle for approximately ten decades for social equality, social justice, peace, and development. 

International Women's Day Purpose:

The purpose of celebrating this day is to highlight the issues of women globally and to protect their rights. Although earlier there were different days for International Women's Day, now March 8 is regularly celebrated. There are now claimants to women's rights around the world, including in Europe, but historically, references to International Women's Day date back to the early twentieth century. 

History of International Women’s Day:

Nearly a hundred years ago, women who worked ten hours in a row in a textile factory in New York called for a reduction in their working hours and an increase in wages. As a result, the police not only brutally tortured them but also tied the women to horses and dragged them into the streets. However, even after this violence, the women continued to protest against forced labor.

Consequently of the constant struggle and eternal sacrifices of women, the First International Conference of Women was held in Copenhagen in 1910, which was attended by about 100 women from more than 17 countries. Women have been employed in very terrible conditions and also earned half of the men's wages. They died too early from poor health. They did not have the right to vote in an election.

International Women's Day Colors:

International Women’s Day colors in 2010 are white, green, and purple.

Women’s Day Modern Society:

International Women’s Day is an official holiday in the world; it is observed by men giving flowers and small gifts to women. In a few nations. International Women’s Day is also celebrated as a counterpart of Mother's Day, and children can also present small gifts to their mothers and grandmothers.

March 8 in the world, including Pakistan, is celebrated regularly as International Women's Day. On this occasion, a worldwide seminar on women's rights rallies and events is held. In the world, including Pakistan, violence against women has increased manifold. In India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, more than one million women each year are involved in buying and selling. These women are using them for work and for sexual purposes. For the prevention of every kind of injustice against women, we and everyone will have to take serious steps.

Importance of International Women’s Day:

While International Day is celebrated all over the world to highlight the importance of women in society, women have also proved that no society can move forward without their participation.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is a group of delegates from each Member State to celebrate International Women’s Day. UNGA found IWD to establish social development and peace. International Women’s Day required the active participation and equality of women. Women acknowledged the contribution of women to international peace and security.

International Women's Day and the place of women in Islam:

International Women's Day was first observed in 1914, but the study of Islamic history to protect women's rights took place about fourteen hundred and fifty years ago. Islam has given women status in the form in which she is. If she is a mother, then heaven will be under her feet. If a woman is in the form of a daughter, she has her place, and if she is a wife, she has a separate place. In those days, women were considered a symbol of hatred, and regret was expressed over the birth of a daughter. Rather, the daughters were buried alive. In such an age, the universal teachings of Islam seem to promote women's dignity and, at the same time, protect women's rights.

Islam is the only religion that has taken a woman out of humiliation and given her the honor of humanity, whereas in other religions before Islam, women were considered a symbol of humiliation, disgrace, and contempt.

They are a dress for you (man), and you are clothing (vestment) for them, (Qur’an, 2:187).

Narrated Abdullah bin Umar:

Allah's Messenger (PBUH) said, Surely! Everybody of you is a guardian and is responsible for his charges: The Imam (ruler) of the people is a guardian and is responsible for his subjects; a man is the guardian of his family (household) and is responsible for his subjects; a woman is the guardian of her husband's home and his children and is responsible for them, and the slave of a man is a guardian of his master's property and is responsible for it. Certainly, everybody of you is a guardian and responsible for their charges.

The point is that there are a large number of such injunctions in the Qur'an and Hadith. This determines the status, importance, and rights of women in Islam.