Ma`rifat

Abstract One of the highly controversial issues today is concerned with the rights and duties of men and women. Some believe that femininity and masculinity are mentally-posited roles given to people by society. Using library and descriptive-analytical methods and based on Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi's theological and ijtihad approach to the issue of the gender and family, this paper seeks to prove the truth of the male and female gender based on the spiritual and physical differences and address the effects of these differences resulting in different rights and duties for each of the two sexes. The findings of the research indicate that these differences never mean women’s oppression or men’s superiority. Male and female sexes are the same in human truth and spirit, and their only difference is in the physical and mental aspects. God has determined mutual rights and duties for their evolution according to these differences and provided the path of perfection and happiness for all human beings.