See the following verse that makes the issue of obedience...

See the following verse that makes the issue of obedience clear for both men as well as women: “And it behoves not a believing man and a believing woman that they should have any choice in their matter when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter; and whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he [or she] surely strays off a manifest straying.” (33:36) And so the Qur’an is for all: man and woman, young and old, white and black, Arab and non-Arab, easterner and westerner; but it has to be studied on its own terms without imposing the personal likes or dislikes upon it and without strait-jacketing it into this or that ‘ism’.

[^1]: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Life and Thought (Albany: SUNY, 1981) p. 26. Previous…