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Ethical Considerations of Employment… A. Valenzuela and M. Limba (125
cloth making, or in home market or their farms. The
industries or other trades. prophet did not stop a woman
Some women were nurses in her iddat (Waiting period
caring for those who were ill for a woman) from going out
or tending men injured in of her house in case of
battle. (Khayat, 2003) necessity.
It is right that earning a Jabir ibn Abdullah says
family's living is an obligatory husband of my aunt divorced
deed of the man, and that her and when she was
women are not Islamically (as spending her iddat in the
per Islamic laws) responsible house she wanted to go
for this act. Women, however, outside of the house to get
should also have a job. In some of her date palms
Islam, idleness is discredited harvested and sold. Someone
and reproached. (Amini, 2002) halted her, saying that you
Regarding idleness, Imam are not allowed to go out of
Sadiq is reported to have stated: the house during iddat. She
“The Almighty Allah went to the Prophet to
hates too much sleep whether she could go outside
and too much rest.” of the house or not and the
(Kulaini, 1987, Vol 5: 84) Prophet said :
“You go out and get
Muslim woman is not the date trees harvested
forbidden to go out of her (and sold) so that you
home for necessity and she is may be able to do
even allowed to be employed. some other good work.”
In the time of the Prophet, (Patoari, 2019)
women went out to the
