The basic point is used in these arguements is that the necessary result of men and women's sharing in human dignity and honor is that their rights should be the same or identical. Now, the thing on which, philosophically speaking, we should put our finger on is to determine exactly what is the necessary results of man and woman's sharing in human dignity. Is the necessary conclusion that each of them should have rights equivalent to the other, so that there should be no privilege or preference in favour of either of them, or is it necessary that the rights of man and woman, besides having equivalence and parity, should also be exactly the same, and that there should be no division whatsoever of work and duty. No doubt the sharing of man and woman in human dignity and their equality as human beings demand their having equal human rights, but how can there be identicalness of rights?
If we can begin to put aside the imitation and blind following of western philosophy, and allow ourselves to think and ponder over the philosophical ideas and opinions which have come to us from them, we must see, firstly, whether identicalness of rights is or is not necessary for equality of rights. Equality is different from identicalness. Equality means parity and equitableness, and identicalness means that they are exactly the same. It is possible that a father distributes his wealth equally and equitably among his sons but he may not distribute it identically.
For example, it is possible that a father has different kinds of wealth: he may own a commercial firm, some agricultural land and also some real estate; but, due to his having examined his sons and found different talents among them, for example, he may have found that one of them has a gift for commercial affairs, and that the second has ability in agriculture, and the third has the capablity to manage real estate. When he comes to distribute his wealth amongst his sons in his life-time, bearing in mind that he must give equally to his sons in terms of the value of the property and that there should be no preference nor discrimination, he bequeaths his wealth according to the talents which he has found in them.
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