Chapter Nine: Woman's Mission
The human being is a free creature, who can decide overtly, and choose something from among others. However, man or woman is entangled in nature's compulsory rules, limited by natural traditions, and cannot go beyond them.
For instance, the human being becomes hungry; his/her hunger is satisfied with some food. S/he needs the air and to breathe. S/he gets sick and needs drugs. Finally, after a period of growth, s/he gradually looses power and passes away. There are no options and solutions in such issues, but obedience and surrender.
The result of this compulsion principle in science is that the natural rules of any creature are not changeable. Any attempt for changing these compulsory conditions may violate that creature's quality of existence. Even if he/she/it is able to continue life after being altered, he/she/it may not remain as efficient as before.
The nature's unchangeable rules have also defined certain duties and missions for man and woman. They should find their mission inside the natural framework and follow it. It is therefore not logical that woman accomplishes the male's duties and vice versa; it is no progress or evolution, as some people might think!
“Physiologic rules are as rigid as the rules of stars and not changeable because of human desires ...” 13 6 As a result, anyone should attempt, think, and act inside his/her framework of existence to go beyond the material life to human perfection. Man and woman's special missions are discussed with regard to this inflexible criterion.
Though man and woman are from the same essence of creation, according to the natural laws each one hasa especial mission. His mission is to be a good man and her mission is to be a good woman; that is what the nature has specified for them.
'Women should try to develop their natural characteristics, in line with their own nature and without blind imitation. Their mission in promoting the human race is much greater than men's is. Women should not consider their mission as unimportant. The importance of the two genders is not their being equal ...”13 7
The equality of rights and missions in the two genders blends two different sets of duties while both remain undone. This inefficient performance of duties brings about basic disorders in the society. If the proponents of woman's rights announce this sameness of duties, they prevent both genders from completing their fundamental roles.
In fact, the blind blending of man and woman's missions is the result of the male prejudice, which considers the male gender more valuable. It tries to provoke women to think, work, and have emotions and roles like men. This is really an insult to women, because maleness is considered a value.
Woman's prejudice should thus not liken women to men and ignore their original character, in order to value them! Being a woman is perfection and value in itself, just as being a man is valuable. Man and woman each have divine missions by doing that by which they can get prosperity and perfection in this world and the Hereafter. Anyone who seeks to be like the opposite sex might suffer from inferiority complex and even cannot play his/her own role, because of being alien to his/her real character.
In this compulsory life, the physiologic and psychophysiologic rules have introduced certain ways for each of the two genders, congruous with their physical and psychological characteristics, to grow and reach their own goals. Therefore, the criteria for education, rule-making, and other social areas should be in accord with each gender.
“Experts of education should consider man and woman's differences and their natural roles. This is a very important factor for creating our future civilization.” 13 8
We can mention many instances of men's feminine roles and women's masculine jobs in some countries and evaluate their resulting problems for the human soeiety, as mentioned even by proponents of feminism. Only one example is talked about here: One of the effects of this blending of roles is the destruction of families, which is totally incurable. Some imaginary fortune-tellings that talk about employed mothers and ordered children are really nasty and they cannot fill the empty place of the family, the relationships among its members and many other emotional ties. How can the employed mothers and the ordered children of medical institutes bring about that calmness created by a family of father, mother, and children? How can a human society be established by such stepfathers and stepchildren? Can we expect the humane love and kindness in such artificial relationships? The proponents of the artificial life consider humans as objects and the role of human families as multifunctional machines! Of course, these instances are very few and created from fatal materialist and capitalist views. Thoughts and views against the Divine rules and traditions would not last long and would be vanished by human pure temperament and the Divine religions. Even now, the modernism that thought of core families is being defied and replaced by postmodernism and its trend of extended families and their values.
The future tellers, too, talk about the human tendency to traditional families in future civilizations:
“... I think none of them (multinational firms, information mangers, computer rooms, industrial research labs, etc.) is the future society's main axis. In fact, homes are the axes of future civilization. To me, home is very important in the third wave. The introduction of production for consumption, the development of electronic village, organizational constructions in economy, automatic industries, and non-mass production all imply the regained importance of the family as the basic unit of future society; a unit whose economic, medical, educational, and social duties shall increase in the future, rather than decrease ...” 13 9