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Al Ghazzali is revered in history as "The Man Who Saved Islam". For many Islamic scholars, his authority in religious matters is only second to Muhammad.
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He wrote the following rules about women:
* She should stay at home and get on with her spinning
* She can go out only in emergencies.
* She must not be well-informed nor must she be communicative with her neighbors and only visit them when absolutely necessary.
* She should take care of her husband and respect him in his presence and his absence and seek to satisfy him in everything.
* She must not leave her house without his permission and if given his permission she must leave secretly.
* She should put on old clothes and take deserted streets and alleys, avoid markets, and make sure that a stranger does not hear her voice, her footsteps, smell her or recognize her.
* She must not speak to a friend of her husband even in need.
* Her sole worry should be her “al bud” (reproductive organs) her home as well as her prayers and her fast.
* If a friend of her husband calls when her husband is absent she must not open the door nor reply to him in order to safeguard her “al bud”.
* She should accept what her husband gives her as sufficient sexual needs at any moment.
* She should be clean and ready to satisfy her husband’s sexual needs at any moment.<ref>''The Revival of the Religious Sciences'' Al Ghazzali</ref>
 
He also wrote, “It is a fact that all the trials, misfortunes and woes which befall men come from women."
 
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