The Role of Work Outside the Home of Muslimah in Modern Society

Abstract

This research is quantitative research aims to 1) study the understanding of the roles of Muslimah working outside the home according to Islamic law. 2) study the role of work outside the home of Muslimah in modern society: case study Tanyongmas Subdistrict, Rangae District, Narathiwat Province. By studying and researching information from the Qur'an, Hadith, books, textbooks, academic documents and related research and data were collected from a sample of 30 people selected by simple random sampling, and its number were compared based on Krejcie and Morgan table. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.76 and 0.80, and the IOC index was greater than 0.5. The data were analyzed by mean and standard deviation. The results were found that 1) Muslimah have knowledge and understanding about working outside the home according to Islamic law is good level accounted for 70 percent and 2) There are opinions about the role of Muslimah working outside the home under modern society in Tanyongmat Subdistrict, Rangae District, Narathiwat Province was found that most of them had a low level the mean (x̄) = 1.97 and the standard deviation (S.D.) = 1.2. The results of the analysis show that Islam does not prohibit Muslimah from working outside the home. There are various reasons that Muslimah have to work one of which is to help the husband support the family economy. The work of a Muslimah in society is not blocked. Muslimah can work like Muslim but within the limits and boundaries permitted by Islam. Working in Muslim society is not narrow but with more conciseness. This is to be good for Muslimah themselves. Muslimah have to learn more to prepare himself for this noble work. It requires mutual assistance and support from Muslims for the best results in their work.