Is Modern Feminism Dangers? How Islamic See about Feminism in Islam

Devin Halim Wijaya8 December 2025

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In the modern world, womens empowerment and pursuit of freedom, equality and recognition is embodied by modern feminism. Although this may seem like a universally positive statement, Islam has a different perspective on these kinds of movements: “not all movements that promise liberation actually achieve it”. The crucial question is whether modern feminism gradually distances women from their nature, families and faith or elevates them within their divine purpose. As stated by Allah ﷻ:

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ
“O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Verily, the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you.”
(Surah Al-Hujurat: 13)

This verse serves as a reminder that piety and righteousness rather than gender determine ones worth and dignity. Islam recognizes the inherent differences in roles and responsibilities between men and women while also honoring them as equals. The issue with many modern feminist narratives is that they redefine equality as sameness rather than fairness and ignore this divine balance.

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What is Wrong with Modern Feminism?

According to a number of current analyses, modern feminism frequently seeks to equalize men and women in terms of identity, role and social expectations in addition to opportunities. And the extreme of modern feminisn can result in Toxic Feminism which is the outcome of a way of thinking that denies any kind of interdependence and holds that a woman needs no man. Independence may seem empowering but it can actually cause gender animosity and isolation rather than harmony.

Another extreme branch of feminism is feminazism which fosters animosity toward men rather than reform. Islam does not support such hostility and teach that instead of competing for supremacy, men and women were meant to complement one another. Modern feminism veers from empowerment into rebellion against fitrah, the innate disposition that Allah ﷻ instilled in every human being when it advocates for the eradication of family structure, rejection of motherhood or denial of gender boundaries.

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Islam Position for Womens Empowerement

Islam encourages women to develop, learn and contribute to society. Muslim women have historically been academics, entrepreneurs and civic leaders. However, their advancement should never came at the price of their spirituality, modesty or family. The issue occurs when freedom takes precedence over responsibility and morality in mind of muslimah.

Islam acknowledges gender equality in value but not in responsibilities. Islam never tells women to go to war and never tell man to be stay home dad and take over household matters. Each has distinct strengths intended to make them both vital and needed for the balance of the society. Feminism runs the risk of causing misunderstanding, animosity and social disintegration when it makes women reject their inherent roles in child nurturing and household leadership.

Women lose their sense of self, families deteriorate and marriages fail when modern or extreme feminism become their main value. Allah ﷻ established justice and balance as the cornerstones of human interaction especially intergender interaction.

This equilibrium is frequently upset by modern feminism which idealizes complete independence while downplaying the associated responsibilities. However, the Islamic framework teaches that true freedom means voluntarily submitting to Allah ﷻ’s wisdom rather than doing as one pleases.’

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Restoration for Goal of Womens Empowerment

So how should Muslimah deal with this reality today? The answer is to redefine empowerment rather than completely reject it. In Islam, empowerment entails not imitating men or giving up ones femininity but rather having a strong faith, contributing intelligently and modestly and acting with dignity.

Muslimah can and ought to pursue education and careers while adhering to the principles of modesty, family and communal harmony. An educated women is crucial for kids education and active and productive women that contributes to the society can be something of an example for their kids.

The Quran encourages doing the roles that fit each other rather than competition: men and women are partners for different jobs, allies in virtue and deeds as well as defenders of one anothers dignity. Being an woman in Islam is not a sign of weakness. Instead it is a sign of comfort for hardworking men, a foundation for next generation, and a jewel in humanitys crown.

When freedom loses focus, it becomes chaos. When empowerment loses morality, it becomes exploitation. Islam offers a path for women to flourish spiritually, intellectually and socially in the middle of these two extremes.

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Conclusion

Although modern feminism started out as a movement for justice, many of its current manifestations run the risk of betraying the very principles it aimed to defend. Society suffers when equality transforms into animosity and independence into alienation.

That disaster of society will begin with the family which is the smallest unit of society. Islams viewpoint is timeless: even though men and women have equal value, they are different from one another and serve complementary purposes in society. This is stated in Qur’an:

هُنَّ لِبَاسٌ لَّكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ لِبَاسٌ لَّهُنَّ

They are Libas i.e., body-cover, or screen for you and you are Libas for them. (Surah Al-Baqarah: 187)

A woman is truly empowered when she understands her value by understanding her Creator purpose rather than through ever changing and extreme human thoughts. May muslimah continue to rise with wisdom, self-assurance and grace and be led by the wisdom of revelation rather than the clamor of ideology.

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