Friendship between man and woman
Dalip singh Wasan, Advocate.

We may be having so may friends but we shall not be desiring that these friends should live with us in the same house for all the times to come, but when two people, a man and woman join together as husband and wife, they want that they should live together in the same house for the remaining part of their life. It means that God Himself created these two sexes so that they may not be alone in this world and they may be having a companion and that companion should become one with the other.
There had been times when this marriage system had not been established in this world. Those were very bad days for the man and also for the woman. The woman had to give birth to children and even she herself was not having full knowledge about the man who had been the father of the child and she had got no right to approach the man and hand over the child to him telling him that this child is his son or daughter and he is responsible to bring him or her up. The man was not in a position to see who is the woman which had been created for him alone and who shall be bearing children for him and shall be establishing a house which shall turn a home for him and for his family. This home system had been brought into being only because of presence of these two sexes and the children were lucky when they found exactly who are their mother and father.
Woman is the best creation of God and those are the happiest moments in the life of these two people when they join in marriage bonds. From that date a new life takes its birth and these two people start living in a house which is converted into a home.If this woman is so important for the man and when it is the special creation of God for man, the man must take care of her and must give due place in his heart, in his house, in the family and in the society around him. She must be given due respect and due honour and the man must be thankful to God that He had blessed him with a wife.
We have noted that in all the societies, man had been ruling and in all the societies this man had been trying to convert this woman as a slave in his house. He had been the earning member and she had been dependant upon him and that is the reason she lost all her position. Now in most of the societies, women have started having proper education, proper training and proper adjustment at work and she has started earning and such women are trying to re-establish themselves in the house of their in laws and in the house of their husbands. Others who have been left behind must come forward and must ensure that they are getting equal status with the man because love, regard, faithfulness and sincerity shall take their birth only when woman gets the equality with the man. Dependency on man would never allow her equality with the man and therefore, from today she must start for attaining equality with the man who is her husband. Since woman is the best creation of God she must prove herself the best and for that attainment in life, she must put in hard labour and must get her position as a matter of her own right and not as a matter of charity from the side of this man.
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