I am the BENT RIB and I'm fully aware of it...

Been reading a few books on the expectations of a Muslim wife...

I came across a saying made by our Prophet (s.a.w) where he describe women as a bent rib...

"Treat women well and with kindness, for woman was created from the rib, and the most crooked part of a rib is its upper part. And if you were to go and straighten it, you would break it; and if you were to leave it, it would remain crooked. So treat women well and with kindness"

I did some research just as I suspected there has been uproars on this phrase that he has made saying its oppression and insult to women...

Its strange how educated people can be but when it comes to judging the religion they have completely lost their senses and the ability to view something from another view..

Just as there have been uproars and anger there have been others who have provided sound reasoning to the phrase which I personally agree with...

Our prophet (s.a.w) said that women are like the bent rib because of how our personality are like... We are the sensitive, emotional, sometime the more irrational gender... yes I might be generalizing here but when it comes to feelings and emotions we are all guilty of being easily acting upon them. I rather see this phrase as advice for the men... as a form of making them understand that we are indeed complicated forms and are easily ruled by emotions and by forcefully making us change or making us do things that we don't want to do, we will break just like the bent rib! Treat us nicely and pamper us...take good care as well treat us with kindness... the bent rib will not hurt you right? Rather then trying to "straighten" us up, it will lead to unpleasantness... it's easier to accept us the way we are and if we are flawed... all we need is your patience... treat us well with kindness and especially LOVE... we are the more brittle creatures when it comes to emotions. Hence we are the bent rib, the one that was taken from you to be created for you....