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Do Women Get 72 Male Virgins In Islam If They Die In Battle?
From: abc729 | Posted: 12/30/2005 2:51:41 PM | Message Detail
Cuz that'd be kinda wierd.
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From: Super Saber Tiger | Posted: 12/30/2005 2:55:17 PM | Message Detail
1 perfect husband supposedly.

Sorry to all the Arab pimpstresses out there ;(
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From: MetalSonic700 | Posted: 12/30/2005 3:06:39 PM | Message Detail
I don't believe in any of that "virgins in heaven" stuff that insurgents pull.
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From: Tsiamon Coldfire | Posted: 12/30/2005 3:26:07 PM | Message Detail
no, women do not get the same treatment as men. I don't think they get anything other than the honor of being a suicidal.......person.
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From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 12/30/2005 4:02:35 PM | Message Detail
Nope. Men get the special treatment in Islam.

Seeing through the history of Islam, the ideological founder's life through the Sirat (Early biography) and the hadith (Traditions of the prophet) as well as how the shar'iah of Islam (Islamic code of the law) is translated today in countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, it is a very patriarchal religion. Men are supposedly allowed to have a harem of four women tops, while women are not subject to the same rule.

The muslim women better start wish their vision of heaven at least has an abundance of battery operated toys, or their husbands will prolly just neglect them for the 72 houris.
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From: kmick | Posted: 12/30/2005 4:07:30 PM | Message Detail
I hardly think it would be possible to find 72 male virgins for every female that died in a battle.

Do you realize how many Star Trek conventions you would have to scour to achieve this? *Runs*
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From: Super Maximum Zero | Posted: 12/30/2005 4:08:03 PM | Message Detail
1 perfect husband supposedly.

Sorry to all the Arab pimpstresses out there ;("

That's it? I wonder if any women have died against Islam just to spite that.
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From: H3R3TIK | Posted: 12/30/2005 8:14:43 PM | Message Detail
From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 12/30/2005 4:02:35 PM | Message Detail
Men are supposedly allowed to have a harem of four women tops, while women are not subject to the same rule.

The muslim women better start wish their vision of heaven at least has an abundance of battery operated toys, or their husbands will prolly just neglect them for the 72 houris.

I'll probably never get this fact through your head, but no "Islamic" country today practices Islamic law. In fact, most Western countries are more Islamic then said countries.

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SHAKIR: And if you fear that you cannot act equitably towards orphans, then marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four; but if you fear that you will not do justice (between them), then (marry) only one or what your right hands possess; this is more proper, that you may not deviate from the right course.

As you can see, this refers to charitable purposes. In this case, it was widows who needed support. Women didn't have a very high status in pre-Islamic
Arabia. Widows were treated as less than human. They were not allowed to remarry and had next to no rights. Another reason for polygamy was because of numerous attacks on the Muslim popluation by the Qur'aish (which was the major tribe in Mecca). The male to female ratio became seriously unbalanced because of this. If the opposite had happened, we could expect polyandry in place of polygamy.

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SHAKIR: So their Lord accepted their prayer: That I will not waste the work of a worker among you, whether male or female, the one of you being from the other; they, therefore, who fled and were turned out of their homes and persecuted in My way and who fought and were slain, I will most certainly cover their evil deeds, and I will most certainly make them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow; a reward from Allah, and with Allah is yet better reward.

This is only ONE of the verses in the Qur'an that stresses that God makes no distinctions between males and females. They are equal.

Lastly, the houris. If there is a heaven, it would probably be impossible to describe to the human being. Also, we do not know whether the houris are metaphors, for example, for purity. A virgin is thought of as pure and chaste. Besides, if there was such a thing, women would get these too. (But, IMO, since monogamy is promoted in Islam, the virgin thing wouldn't make much sense)

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From: H3R3TIK | Posted: 12/30/2005 8:30:14 PM | Message Detail
You know what? Forget what I said about polyandry being a viable situation. That wouldn't help the population. (I'm tired, okay?)
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From: I have no name | Posted: 12/30/2005 8:36:18 PM | Message Detail
*woman blows herself up*
"YES! Finally I got to heaven!"
*woman looks around and gets shocked look on face*
"Steve Carell! What are you doing here!?"
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 12/30/2005 8:52:27 PM | Message Detail
*tries his hardest not to respond*

*tries so hard*
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From: Ganon447 | Posted: 12/30/2005 8:56:09 PM | Message Detail
No, because they most likely will find themselves in Hell seeing even if they are raped by a man in the eyes of Islam and most Muslim clerics it's the womans fault.

So if she is lucky she might get purgatory but then again all these new stories of women getting raped in Islamic countries and then getting blamed for it is false. ;)
From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 12/30/2005 9:01:34 PM | Message Detail
The 72 virgins themselves come from Al-Tirmidhi. The amount specified and the sex comes from Tirmidhi himself. No one is obliged to accept his opinion on this. You can, if you want, but last time I checked, a woman's reward is unspecified (if it were mentioned, it would also be symbolic), and men and women are equal in the eyes of god.

I've seen this reaffirmed in the verified Seerah and Hadith.

Islam is patriarchal in the sense that it emphasizes men as the head of the household. No way does this imply inequality though, as assigning different roles doesn't necessarily mean "inequality". But that noway does omit from women working in public and so on.
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From: Ganon447 | Posted: 12/30/2005 9:02:43 PM | Message Detail
Maybe when I can get over eating pork, I'll finally convert to Islam like I've been telling myself I am going to do for the past seven years.
From: X5Dragon | Posted: 12/30/2005 9:39:33 PM | Message Detail
From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 12/31/2005 3:02:35 AM | Message Detail
Nope. Men get the special treatment in Islam.


Right, so I guess contributing the most to women rights doesn't count...

You know, marrige rights, inheritence rights, ban killing females for honor, the right of divorce, must give a women a marrige present, praising several times the mother "heaven lies underneath your mother's feet", a Sura named after females, excusing them from praying while in PMS(sp?), the right to pray inside the Masjid, women being mentioned along men when it comes to reward and punishment, sins and good deeds in the Quran, a female slave carrying a child must be freed when she gives birth etc...

Yup, you know Islamic history...</sarcasm>

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From: X5Dragon | Posted: 12/30/2005 9:42:00 PM | Message Detail
From: Super Maximum Zero | Posted: 12/31/2005 3:08:03 AM | Message Detail
That's it? I wonder if any women have died against Islam just to spite that.

You forgot the honey & milk flowing rivers, the gold and silver cups, the beatiful dressess, the stud *cough me plz ME!*, them being ultimate figures of beauty, the musk, the fruit, the paradise..

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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 12/30/2005 9:47:58 PM | Message Detail
Remember, he knows pre-Islamic Persia best. But he made the comment "Throughout Islamic history"...

Now, I've seen people make these comments about Islamic history alot. I mean, a lot of people love to use the Turks and the Mughals as "example Muslims", but if one actually takes time to study the inner workings of these empires, one cannot immediately pass a judgement on what Islam consists of using its history.

I learn a lot of Islamic history through the works of people who have Ph.D's in such subjects.
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From: demetz4386 | Posted: 12/30/2005 10:35:57 PM | Message Detail
abc729

I remember you, you're the one who showed up on PoP asking ridiculous questions and giving absurd answers under different usernames, but were to stupid to change you sigs and quotes to keep it from being obvious. Did you think by coming here instead that your dung-flinging wouldn't turn back and hit you in the face once again?
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 12/30/2005 10:43:43 PM | Message Detail
Dung smells.
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From: Ganon447 | Posted: 12/30/2005 11:04:25 PM | Message Detail
I always loved the Muslim culture since I was young. From seven on all my close inner circle of friends were Muslim and pretty much seven on I pretty much believed the Jews were evil people and it pretty much gave me an racist ideology at the time. because of what was said.

But I always have shown an interest an the Islamic Culture and always wanted to join. I think 911 set me back a little because I am a Right Winger and in a way I love my country and culture. Over the past couple of years though I realized, Christianity isn’t as powerful in the West or pretty much as strong as is Islam is today in the world.

Islam in my eyes brings the world, order. Islam is basically and hopefully the wave of the future that gives the west back it’s order. Putting women back into their place, brining somewhat peaceful and meaning back into peoples lives. Here in the West, people go to work come home and really have no future but disagree with each other and bring down our civilization more by petty arguing.

In the West children have no real discipline, parents have no control, so many restrictions how is a person to live?

As much as I disagree or dislike the terrorist Islamic Threat to the West in a way, I do hope that the message is spread and we are put into another Dark Age because honestly, that is what we need. We need to slow down our advancement before we kill each other off and reexamine our lives and try to catch up.



From: demetz4386 | Posted: 12/30/2005 11:59:42 PM | Message Detail
O_O
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From: scannerfish | Posted: 12/31/2005 12:54:40 AM | Message Detail
Dude deism pride.
From: scannerfish | Posted: 12/31/2005 1:17:16 AM | Message Detail
I am laughing my *** of at ganon seriously though .
From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 12/31/2005 6:14:27 AM | Message Detail
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Right, so I guess contributing the most to women rights doesn't count...

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Now, I don't follow you. Islam contributed the most to women's rights? Is that what you actually are claiming right now? It can't be anything else. Islam may have banned the barbaric practice of burying unwanted girls alive, yet it offered nothing to their conquered subjects. Persia? Persia was several light years ahead of the Islamic "civilization" when it came to human rights, and even so their predecessors were much superior.

Compare the Qur'an with the Achaemenian Charter of Cyrus The Great and see for yourself. What woman in the Islamic civilization enjoyed more rights than the common Achaemenian, Arsacid or Sassanian female? Even during the much patriarchal Sassanid dynasty, Ęrân was twice ruled by queens, having several female officers in the army. Many royal scribes and advisors were female.

Islam contributed as much to female rights as a peeled chestnut, soaked in horse urine contributes to a respected chef's kitchen. In this case Persia.

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Remember, he knows pre-Islamic Persia best. But he made the comment "Throughout Islamic history"...

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Yes, I said "throughout islamic history", and many, including me, thinks that the Abbasid caliphate marks the golden age of the Bilad-al Islam. History is the best method to showcase the flaws of previously common laws. The rest, post-Abbasid is degenerate once the Turks of Transoxiana and Caucasus reaffirmed their position within the core domains of the caliphate. That is common knowledge. After the Abbasid caliphate, the islamic state is put into a resilient decline.

When I said "throughout Islamic history" it could only mean that I had to compare with the peaking times of the islamic state, else the statement would hold no water.

Note that ths will be my last reply to the topic for today. I have a party to arrange, and at best I'll answer eventual replies tomorrow.
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From: theyllblong2MEalways | Posted: 12/31/2005 6:39:47 AM | Message Detail
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From: X5Dragon | Posted: 12/31/2005 7:11:21 AM | Message Detail
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From: NindramonOmega | Posted: 12/31/2005 7:17:14 AM | Message Detail
Did you guys know that the first frickin scholar in Islam after Muhammad was a woman.

As for rewards, Allah only gave a few examples of Paradise. Meaning there is much more than describes.

Besides, women get thousands of angel servant boys at their command >_>
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From: theyllblong2MEalways | Posted: 12/31/2005 7:17:54 AM | Message Detail
Fanboy eh?

Na, although I do respect him...
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From: X5Dragon | Posted: 12/31/2005 7:45:54 AM | Message Detail
I will edit my post to remove that unnecassary offense theyllblong2MEalways.


Now, I don't follow you. Islam contributed the most to women's rights? Is that what you actually are claiming right now? It can't be anything else. Islam may have banned the barbaric practice of burying unwanted girls alive, yet it offered nothing to their conquered subjects.

Yes. And I'm not claiming it now, I'v always believed so. I do not know much about persia's status on women before Islam, so I wont make the comparsion in this topic that I don't know enough about, and I'm not going to claim knowledge in a field I know nothing about, unlike somone we all know here. However, my post's main point was not about who contributed most to women rights, it was about replying to your accusation that Islam didn't give women any special treatment.

Islam contributed as much to female rights as a peeled chestnut, soaked in horse urine contributes to a respected chef's kitchen. In this case Persia.

Now I don't get you, you take a few misconceptions on the prophets life and you call us apoligsts, call him the devil, the charlatan and the murderer, yet, when I show you he endorsed human rights and waged a successful war against immorality and demonizing or what I prefer to call, baggaging women, you downplay it to the point "yeah, but" or "he may have". Which makes me wonder again what kind of scale are you using when balancing arguments..

And by looking at the your last sentnece, I'm clearly questioning your judgment. If you call baning the slaying if childern & females in order to avoid poverty or "shame" chestnut soaked in urine, if you call their right for marrige, divorce, inheritence, their rights on their usbands to spend and feed them and provide them and the childern on their daily needs and respecting their own wealth, evalating a mothers status to the point of saying heaven lies beneath her feet, puting her respect over the father three times, all this and more horse urine, then its one of the two things, your either sexist, or blind to the extent you can no longer see good in other cultures or religons except the one you endorse, and in this case, a major civil rights reforms for women.

I like Cyrus and I personally think he is one of the greatest men in history and I am starting to look at him more as a rolemodel, yet the way you are using him to make every other culture sound inferior is sad.


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From: theyllblong2MEalways | Posted: 12/31/2005 7:50:44 AM | Message Detail
Oh, to be honest, I didn't even see it and it doesn't bother me.
Different opinions my friend, it's all in good fun.
You both make some good points, and you both know lots about the subject.
So Kudos to both of yall.
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From: MaJiN SaMWiSE | Posted: 12/31/2005 10:17:04 AM | Message Detail
Kid Einstien you will come to know the truth. So mock our prophet away. It may seem that you have knowledge by inserting a bunch of historical phrases but you really dont know anything about Islam. Your pathetic persian nationalism has always blinded you from the truth. Yes women get virgins too, Hourieen from my understanding is the opposite of your sex. Like I said in the other topic, Your wife/husband will be the most beatiful TO YOU in paradise. More beatiful then the hourieen (virgins). Kid Einstein just slanders without knowledge.
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From: scannerfish | Posted: 12/31/2005 10:18:25 AM | Message Detail
I don't think he cares cause he considers religion fullish , which is kinda of the boat I'm in , except more like I'm in the water between the religion boat and non-religion boat.
From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 12/31/2005 10:22:34 AM | Message Detail
Kid Einstien you will come to know the truth. So mock our prophet away. It may seem that you have knowledge by inserting a bunch of historical phrases but you really dont know anything about Islam. Your pathetic persian nationalism has always blinded you from the truth. Yes women get virgins too, Hourieen from my understanding is the opposite of your sex. Like I said in the other topic, Your wife/husband will be the most beatiful TO YOU in paradise. More beatiful then the hourieen (virgins). Kid Einstein just slanders without knowledge.

Shh.... don't inflame him. He gets stuff like this all the time.
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From: spartan1311 | Posted: 12/31/2005 10:54:09 AM | Message Detail
From: X5Dragon | Posted: 12/30/2005 9:39:33 PM | Message Detail

Right, so I guess contributing the most to women rights doesn't count...

lmao.


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From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 1/1/2006 3:15:09 PM | Message Detail
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I like Cyrus and I personally think he is one of the greatest men in history and I am starting to look at him more as a rolemodel, yet the way you are using him to make every other culture sound inferior is sad.

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Do you know what I find incredibly sad? When people find the need to construct pesky strawmen to present an argument that otherwise wouldn't hold any water. See the bolded segment? Good doggy. Until the next time you decide to spoonfeed words into another individual's mouths... Don't do it.

It seems that everyone else, except for the apologists of Islam have grasped my open acknowledge of the inherent flaws of all three great Iranic dyasties. Of course, you might as well as play dumb all day while tapping your ears with your palms and make infantile noises, you'd prolly continue to accuse me for thinking that I'm using Cyrus to downplay everyone else. Think again. I'm using Cyrus for one single purpose and that is to downplay Islam's "sinless" prophet, Mohammed Ibn Abd'allah.

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Yes. And I'm not claiming it now, I'v always believed so. I do not know much about persia's status on women before Islam, so I wont make the comparsion in this topic that I don't know enough about, and I'm not going to claim knowledge in a field I know nothing about, unlike somone we all know here. However, my post's main point was not about who contributed most to women rights, it was about replying to your accusation that Islam didn't give women any special treatment.

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I won't comment your petty insult, it would be below my stature.

As for your reply in general, you did reply in this manner:

Right, so I guess contributing the most to women rights doesn't count..

The only Arab tribe who engaged in the barbaric practice of burying their daughters alive were the Quraish. The Ansari came to be from various other Arab tribes, amongst them the Ghassanids the Northern Abyssinian Arab tribes, and eventually even the Lakhmid Arab tribes in the Khvârvarân province of Ęrân, after the battle of Anbar (Or the battle of the Eyes as it also is called) and siege of Al-Hirah, where many Lakhmids were forced to serve against their masters. The Lakhmid did not engage in these barbaric practices of alive burial of unwanted girls. They were much thanks to the grain surpluses of Mesopotamia wealthy under Persian vassalage. They followed central laws. Even Lakhmid females attained very influential positions. The Islamic code of law offered this Arab tribe nothing new.
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From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 1/1/2006 3:15:23 PM | Message Detail
Islam being a patriarchal religion is nothing new. Is there even a thing as a female imam? The witness of a woman is worth the half of a man's witness, according to Mohammed, because of the females inferior intellect:

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"Muhammad said: ‘I have seen that you, in spite of being deficient in mind and religion, rob even a wise man of his senses.’ They said: ‘Allah’s messenger, where lies our deficiency of reason and faith?’ He said: ‘Is not the evidence (testimony) of a woman equal to half the evidence of a man?’ They said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘This is because of the deficiency of your minds (mental status). Is it not a fact that when you enter the period of menses, you neither observe prayer nor observe fast?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ Then he said: ‘This is the deficiency in your faith."
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It is also common knowledge that a female inherits half of a male's portion. This is stated in Surah 4: 176

I can bring up so many other things, but this will suffice for now. If there ever was a doubt that islam is a patriarchal religion, then hopefully, the fact that Mohammed openly stated that the female intellect is inferior, carries an inferior value as a witness, as well as the Qur'an clearly states that the inheritance for woman is worth the half of a male's portion, should clear all these doubts.

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your either sexist, or blind to the extent you can no longer see good in other cultures or religons except the one you endorse, and in this case, a major civil rights reforms for women.

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I see that you are quite keen on shoving words into other peoples' mouths. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Of course, you'd pretend that you've never visited the history forums where I've openly praised the Roman architecture, superior to anything else in the world at the time, as well as their military apparatus, derived from the finest of hellenic traditions, resulting in the legion cohorts, as it was the finest regimentalized infantry at the time. Of course, you can by all means continue to spoonfeed those yummy words into my mouth, if you enjoy being percieved as a buffoon.

Let me fix another thing for you:

your either sexist, or blind to the extent you can no longer see good in other cultures or religons except the one you endorse, and in this case, a major civil rights reforms for Quraishi women.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 3:39:17 PM | Message Detail
"Muhammad said: ‘I have seen that you, in spite of being deficient in mind and religion, rob even a wise man of his senses.’ They said: ‘Allah’s messenger, where lies our deficiency of reason and faith?’ He said: ‘Is not the evidence (testimony) of a woman equal to half the evidence of a man?’ They said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘This is because of the deficiency of your minds (mental status). Is it not a fact that when you enter the period of menses, you neither observe prayer nor observe fast?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ Then he said: ‘This is the deficiency in your faith."

I'm going to assume this is Sahih, so I won't go through the normal questioning process.

But I have one question. Who were the addressees of this hadith? Which women were he addressing, and why did he said this? A narration is often triggered by certain circumstances. Who said this was applicable to ALL women? The prophet (pbuh) was making a point in this hadith. And unless you can provide the answer to these questions, I'll have to provide it.

Let's see if you know what you're talking about, and let's put your methodology of ilm-ul-hadith to the test.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 3:40:39 PM | Message Detail
I'll address the half-testimony thing, because it is often misread. I'll bring this up later on. But I just want you to answer these questions.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 3:49:22 PM | Message Detail
And I have just learned, due to a proper reading of the hadith, that you did something VERY intellectually dishonest.

You didn't post the whole narration. You cut off the first few phrases, and that provides the context of why he said what he said.

You missed this:
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The Messenger of Allah once said to a group of women: O Women, give charity. I see the majority of those in hellfire to be women. They said: why is it so, O Messenger of Allah? He said: You rebuke a lot and you are disobedient towards your husbands. I have not seen any one who has more influence on an intelligent and sensible man, than you, although you are deficient in intellect and religion. A cautious, sensible man can easily be led astray by you. The women asked: O Allah's Messenger, what is deficient in our intellect and religion? He said: Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man? They replied in the affirmative. He said: This is the deficiency in your intelligence'... 'Isn't it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menstruation? The women replied in the affirmative. He said: This is the deficiency in your religion.''

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Now before you pull the stuff about "Majority of women in hellfire" against me. I'd like to say something. To say that the majority of women are in hellfire says nothing about Muslim women today.

From a proper reading of the hadith, it seems that Muhammad (pbuh) is addressing women who didn't give charity, and was endorsing them to do so. The reason he said what he said was that he was addressing those women specifically. It's impossible to try and "overextend" this hadith to all of mankind, this reading is very dishonest.

The hadith is a means of endorsement of women to do good deeds. Since women do not have to pray/fast in menses, they should engage in other good deeds to do so to balance out these so-called "weaknesses".
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From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 1/1/2006 3:51:38 PM | Message Detail
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Kid Einstien you will come to know the truth. So mock our prophet away. It may seem that you have knowledge by inserting a bunch of historical phrases but you really dont know anything about Islam. Your pathetic persian nationalism has always blinded you from the truth. Yes women get virgins too, Hourieen from my understanding is the opposite of your sex. Like I said in the other topic, Your wife/husband will be the most beatiful TO YOU in paradise. More beatiful then the hourieen (virgins). Kid Einstein just slanders without knowledge.

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1) It is ridiculous to threaten people over the Internet, young man. I will come to know the truth? The truth by whom? David Koresh? Shoko Asahara? Mazdak? Mohammed ibn Abd'allah? Or the decrees of thousands of other charlatans who have pestered other peoples since time immemorial? Ah yes, I shall suffer the truth from the thousands of charlatans who have predicted the afterlife while bonking their groupies and whatnot. I'm so sorry if I offended your petty god. I'm so sorry if I'm supposed to fear him/she/it/Body Harvest/my goldfish Billy/whatever...

2) Blinded me from the truth? What truth? The truth as in 2+2=4, or as in the "truth" when Mohammed split the moon in half? It obviously helps by being specific, instead of asserting alot of ambigiuous claims.

3) Oh sure, I can take your word for it, except for the fact that the entire idea of the Islamic heaven sounds like a bad porno with Ron Jeremy. My "pathetic" "Persian" nationalism is nowhere near to jingoism, yet no one has so far commented on how ridiculous Mohammed's image of "heaven" is like. It is no wonder why he claimed that when he "saw" hell, he saw that most who entered the abyss were females. Good golly, the lesser the wives to pester the men while they have their orgies with the 1,2,3,4,5,6 *holds up fingers while counting*... Aw, to hell with it I lost the count.

What astounds me more is that you, unlike some more liberalized muslims, actually believe that the houris are virgins, and not grapes, to the contrary of the apparently popular liberalized opinion (Which by the way is "aneb" in Arabic).
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 3:58:52 PM | Message Detail
as well as the Qur'an clearly states that the inheritance for woman is worth the half of a male's portion

I guess this is somewhat patriarchal, but most scholars interpret this ruling as a form of assigning of different (but rather vaguely defined) roles rather than inequality.

This is quite a lengthy subject and can extend into lengthy talk and exegesis of other Qur'anic verses, so I'll leave this for later.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:09:00 PM | Message Detail
It is no wonder why he claimed that when he "saw" hell, he saw that most who entered the abyss were females. Good golly, the lesser the wives to pester the men while they have their orgies with the 1,2,3,4,5,6 *holds up fingers while counting*... Aw, to hell with it I lost the count.

Kekekekekeke... I already addressed this. He said that because women weren't giving charity, and they were addressed that in order to strengthen their faith and wokr harder in terms of obtaining good deeds.

And as for heaven being a good "porno"... wow... you really have a bastardized, oversimplified version of Islamic heaven. First of all, the houri'een are sexless and symbolic, which was emphasized on a previous discussion. This cna be proven through study of the Arabic etymology, as well as understanding the tafsir and so on.


Good golly, the lesser the wives to pester the men while they have their orgies with the 1,2,3,4,5,6 *holds up fingers while counting*... Aw, to hell with it I lost the count.

Wow... what a stretch of truth. I have read nowhere that there were orgies. I do know that polygamy exists in Islam, and is considered the exception to the rule, but I have read nowhere of these orgies.

See, what's really funny is most of your objections (with your abuse of quotes) try to say that these things sound absurd. But you're coming from an agnostic point of view, so everything about religion sounds absurd. Whether Muhammad saw hell or not cannot be verified, so to not believe it (or to believe it, whicih requires a belief in hell) is as baseless of a stance.

What's really funny is the switching of your stances?
You act if the hadith are nothing but lies (OH NOES, HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY SEE HELL, TO SAY HE DID WAS ABSURD), but then, continue to use them as truth. Your stance is very inconsistent.
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From: Indignant | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:11:01 PM | Message Detail

Seeing through the history of Islam, the ideological founder's life through the Sirat (Early biography) and the hadith (Traditions of the prophet) as well as how the shar'iah of Islam (Islamic code of the law) is translated today in countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, it is a very patriarchal religion. Men are supposedly allowed to have a harem of four women tops, while women are not subject to the same rule.

All three of the monotheistic religions are patriarchal. Don't single Islam out.
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From: Indignant | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:15:01 PM | Message Detail
"Muhammad said: ‘I have seen that you, in spite of being deficient in mind and religion, rob even a wise man of his senses.’ They said: ‘Allah’s messenger, where lies our deficiency of reason and faith?’ He said: ‘Is not the evidence (testimony) of a woman equal to half the evidence of a man?’ They said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘This is because of the deficiency of your minds (mental status). Is it not a fact that when you enter the period of menses, you neither observe prayer nor observe fast?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ Then he said: ‘This is the deficiency in your faith."
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It is also common knowledge that a female inherits half of a male's portion. This is stated in Surah 4: 176

A female inherits half a male's portion because traditionally men were the one's running the household. If a woman inherited all of it AND married, then what would be left for her brother? Think before you type.

And second, it's almost a cultural universal that most societies see women in menses as unclean or impure. I was an anthro major, I read ethnographies of tribes from Africa to Central Asia to North America, there are always some restrictions placed on women in their menses.
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From: jechtman | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:17:57 PM | Message Detail
I can see KE trying as usual to depict islam as TEH EVIL.
Ignore him.
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From: Indignant | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:19:11 PM | Message Detail
I find it ironic that Einstein as a child was actually not very bright...and here comes a poster named Kid Einstein trying to tell us the 'truth' about Islam. XD
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:19:26 PM | Message Detail
Actually, KE, regarding that hadith, it has come to my knowledge that the one on USC.edu MSA's website may have contained the poorly translated version. I've talked to numerous people on this one, and to my knowledge, that hadith is very known for being badly translated.

So if it was an unintentional error on your part, I will assume it as an honest error, not something intellectually dishonest.
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From: Indignant | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:20:58 PM | Message Detail
Or he selectively chose that translation like many Western scholars do to try and defame Islam.

I'm an alumni of USC and a member of the MSU, I'll try and have them fix that quote with a more proper translation pronto.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:23:10 PM | Message Detail
A reason for the mistranslation is that the stresses were not accurately translated. It's best to not rely on internet collections, a lot of unwanted stuff slips through.

There are a lot of books at Islamic Universities that have AMAZING collections of this stuff. I want to travel around the world sometime and study at one of these universities.

I do keep good relations with knowledgable people though.
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From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:23:24 PM | Message Detail
:::QUOTE:::

I'm going to assume this is Sahih, so I won't go through the normal questioning process.

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It is from the Sahih al-Bukhari (Vol. l, p. 83). Or from the:

Volume 1, Book 6, Number 301:

Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:

Once Allah's Apostle went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) o 'Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, "O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women)." They asked, "Why is it so, O Allah's Apostle ?" He replied, "You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you." The women asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?" He said, "Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?" They replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn't it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?" The women replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her religion."

From: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/006.sbt.html#001.006.301

He was obviously generalizing, because we see a lingual transition, where he begins to say "some of you", meaning that he was speaking in a more general perspective, prior to this transition. Unless he actually knew those women personally or engaged in some hearsay, there was no way in hell he could specifically point out these women as ingrates or profane. From here, we can conclude that he was speaking in general matters, where women in general are ungrateful to their husbands and were notorious for excessive cursing.

Then he refers to the value of testimoney amongst females, of course, commonly half the worth of a male testimony and how it relates to the female deficience in the intellect. It is all about the semantics. You say it is an endorsement to inspire females to good deeds. I say it is an insult towards women as well as it serves like fuel for women to fear hell. How can you not see this?

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All three of the monotheistic religions are patriarchal. Don't single Islam out.

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I'm not. I think religion is superfluous. Do you know how many religions there are out there actually being patriarchal? It's almost scary. If you expect me to address all of them, you are mistaken.
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From: jechtman | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:31:02 PM | Message Detail
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From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:33:05 PM | Message Detail
:::QUOTE:::

A female inherits half a male's portion because traditionally men were the one's running the household. If a woman inherited all of it AND married, then what would be left for her brother? Think before you type.

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Traditionally men were running their households... That much I'll give you. Does this mean that all men were running their households? And for that part, is society that patriarchal everywhere in the world as to actually deny females (Oh yes, men run their households, but what about the women? Are their "services" less worth than the man because she isn't earning any dirham on preparing the food, nurturing the children or keeping the house clean?) half the inheritance value of a male?

Who said anything about the sister taking all of the inheritance. Split up the inheritance in half, evenly. Two, big, nice chunks. In Ęrân females were entitled to have their own businesses. It is that attitude that has lead to gender equality of today, not the backwards ideal of living in a patriarchal society of the Quraishi model.

No, you think before you type.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:33:44 PM | Message Detail
All three of the monotheistic religions are patriarchal. Don't single Islam out.

Or he selectively chose that translation like many Western scholars do to try and defame Islam.

I'm an alumni of USC and a member of the MSU, I'll try and have them fix that quote with a more proper translation pronto.

Peace be upon you, Indignant. I would rather you not speculate on his intentions because it gives him fodder to work with (ad hominem, tu quoque, etc.). He gets really mad with the "baseless" accusations (see, I can use quotes too).

Also, he has made it clear repeatedly that he doesn't single Islam out, he hates all the Abrahamic faiths. He has a personal bone to pick with Islam though, because it "destroyed" the true Iran, and 1979 revolution made him mad... etc. etc.

He will group you with "apologists" if you make these claims. I have a bone to pick with his use of the word apologist. He made me look like a fool when I said apologism is a negative term, and although the dictionary definition does not indicate so, it currently has a negative connotation, which is true among atheists and agnostics alot.

I talk to a few atheists, and there is a distinction between "apologism" and "reasonable debate".

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From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:38:19 PM | Message Detail
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Actually, KE, regarding that hadith, it has come to my knowledge that the one on USC.edu MSA's website may have contained the poorly translated version. I've talked to numerous people on this one, and to my knowledge, that hadith is very known for being badly translated.

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That is not my problem. The only other biography I have in my library is the Ibn Hisham recension of Hunayn Ibn Ishaq's Sirat, while the only the hadith collections I know of are at the MSA website. I know of no other website with online ahadith. If there will be new retranslated version of that hadith, I'll take another review of it.
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From: Indignant | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:38:24 PM | Message Detail
No one was speaking of the contribution make to a family household, however it is understood in the hadith that while women are not obligated to be able to provide for the family (although they certainly are welcome to), it was mandatory for a man to provide for his family.
Hence the reason, in general, more of the inheritance would be given to a man. Once again think before you type son.

Oh and I could care less if that little kid called me a terrorist, as Jecht said, "Dogs bark and the caravan moves."
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From: jechtman | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:41:02 PM | Message Detail
For god's sake stop it.
Neither he will be convinced and neither we will change.
Stop it, don't feed him.
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From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:44:50 PM | Message Detail
:::QUOTE:::

No one was speaking of the contribution make to a family household, however it is understood in the hadith that while women are not obligated to be able to provide for the family (although they certainly are welcome to), it was mandatory for a man to provide for his family.
Hence the reason, in general, more of the inheritance would be given to a man. Once again think before you type son.

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What you have failed to understand is that this rule is static. It does not care about women being succesful in business, because their inheritance value is fixed from day one at their birth. What you also have failed to understand is that from the provided hadith, is that there is a relation between the woman's intellect and the inheritance value arbitrarily decided by gender.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 5:18:47 PM | Message Detail
He was obviously generalizing, because we see a lingual transition, where he begins to say "some of you", meaning that he was speaking in a more general perspective, prior to this transition. Unless he actually knew those women personally or engaged in some hearsay, there was no way in hell he could specifically point out these women as ingrates or profane. From here, we can conclude that he was speaking in general matters, where women in general are ungrateful to their husbands and were notorious for excessive cursing.

Then he refers to the value of testimoney amongst females, of course, commonly half the worth of a male testimony and how it relates to the female deficience in the intellect. It is all about the semantics. You say it is an endorsement to inspire females to good deeds. I say it is an insult towards women as well as it serves like fuel for women to fear hell. How can you not see this?

This is not how I, or many other people, understand it.

Since your whole post works on the bolded premise, I'll analyze it.


I am going to break this hadith down, phrase by phrase.

Once Allah's Apostle went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) o 'Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, "O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women)."

Okay, point 1. He is telling certain women to give alms (the Zakat), and uses his vision as a justification. The word "as" indicates this transition. Sounds like an endorsement of good deeds to me. I don't think it was intended as an insult, but a means of getting women to pay charity.

Now, it has been established, that the reason that Muhammad (pbuh) said these things is because some women were not giving alms and doing other not-so-nice things.

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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 5:19:13 PM | Message Detail
They asked, "Why is it so, O Allah's Apostle ?" He replied, "You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you."

Muhammad (pbuh) is telling these women that some among them curse and are ungrateful to their husbands, and it is because these qualities that there are the majoirty of women in hell currently. The reason this does not really give a general feel is that because not all women curse frequently and are ungrateful. Seems like he's telling them to abstain from cursing and being unthankful.

Also, scholars refer to the unthankfulness as referring to

"It actually refers to the grievances that a wife may have from her husband, on account, generally, of the non-provision of worldly comforts. These grievances, as is generally the case, when they become vocal, are a major cause of domestic disturbances. In fact, it is the diplomatic and effective expression of these grievances which can influence and entice the man into doing wrong." - Brother Amjad, who studied in Pakistan

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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 5:20:03 PM | Message Detail
The women asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?" He said, "Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?" They replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn't it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?" The women replied in the affirmative. He said, "This is the deficiency in her religion."

Now these women ask, what could be wrong with us? And then goes on with further religious justification for what they are lacking, as Allah had made exceptions for them (the idea of not praying for menses). Hence, they have to compensate with good deeds.

Now, we tread on into another subject... what was "intelligence" defined in this manner? It obviously does not mean the same thing as what we think of "intelligence" today, as what would intelligence have to do with a women's TESTIMONY? The intelligence here is not the same intelligence we are talking about, we are getting into the reasoning of the women's testimony ruling.

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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 5:20:27 PM | Message Detail
It can be generalized that in order to endorse the giving of charity, he showed admonition to these women by using religious justification. This can be hinted at the ""O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women)." As I previously stated, the word "as" indicates that he is justifying the giving of alms through is vision. He emphasizes bad deeds like "ungratefulness" and "cursing" to show that they should abstain from these things. Women don't have to do certain things, like "praying in menses", hence they hsould avoid doing bad deeds and commit to doing good deeds, like giving alms.

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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 5:21:19 PM | Message Detail
And it does have specific addresses. It's not universal. It was one of the Prophet's (pbuh) khutbas on the Jumuah prayer.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 5:36:42 PM | Message Detail
Now, let's get into the translation of stresses, because this hadith pertains to WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS/JUDICIAL RESPONSIBILITY, not WOMEN'S INTELLIGENCE IN GENERAL.

This is taken from the original arabic and an arabic translator and scholar:

"The words "Naqisa'tul-`aql wal-deen" translated as: "deficient in intellect and religion" have the noun "umu'r" suppressed. The complete phrase is: "Naqisa'tu umu'ril-`aql wal-di'n" or "Naqisa't fi' umu'ril-`aql wal-di'n" i.e. "deficient in responsibility in matters pertaining to intellect and religion. "

He's not calling women dumb, he's saying that their responsibilities in Islam are less, therefore women should give more Charity.

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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 5:46:00 PM | Message Detail
What you have failed to understand is that this rule is static. It does not care about women being succesful in business, because their inheritance value is fixed from day one at their birth.

And Indignant knows it is static. He was giving a reasoning behind that. And the reasoning is that men are the established providers, therefore they shall recieve more wealth. Islam is patriarchal in this sense.

And I've already commented to you about using a certain seerah. My methodology differs from yours in this sense. You tend to take all that is said word for word. I go by what is known in the esnes that there are many false accounts in the seerahs, as the early compilers accepted things uncritically through oral tradition. Hence, the process of reading seerah's and hadith's up AGAINST each other was developed, adn so was the process of isnad.

But I would recommend that you do not reply to the last paragraph, because I am VERY unwilling to even discuss the so-called (by you) "illogical" process of isnad and verification of unsubstantiated narratives. This topic will get so lengthy.... it just has no place here.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 5:47:57 PM | Message Detail
esnes

What the hell, I must've not known what I was typing. I meant to say, I go by what is known by the different madhabs and schools of thought.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 5:53:45 PM | Message Detail
If there are any grammatical errors and so on, I apologize. That is probably the longest post I've ever written, I normally don't write so much.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 6:06:40 PM | Message Detail
Sorry, I was re-scrutinizing your objection. Let me summarize my objection to your objection:

1. This was a prophet's khutbah addressed to a specific group of women.

2. The switch from you to some of you doesn't necessarily indicate all of the women of Arabia are deficient in intelligence (well, after the proper translation, all the responsibilities pertaining to those aspects). "You" probably meant (since this was a khutbah, and khutbah's are addressed to a specific community) the women at the sermon, and at Jumu'ah prayer, charity is given. "Some of you" probably indicated the few that were unthankful and ungrateful.

As for evidence that this was a khutbah, you could tell by the structure that this was at a friday prayer, as well as that this took place at a musallah and the giving of alms.

A lot of people here go to a musallah for the friday prayer. A sermon, or a khutbah, is often given prior to the prayer.

Also, this may be ad veracundiam, but I've consulted scholarly opinion on this hadith, and this is what they say.
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From: NindramonOmega | Posted: 1/1/2006 6:31:35 PM | Message Detail
Hey guess what? There are more females than males in the world!

All other arguments = pwnt
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 6:49:01 PM | Message Detail
One must keep in mind that I am ultimately answering this objection:

" then hopefully, the fact that Mohammed openly stated that the female intellect is inferior"

Through proper translation, it has hopefully been proven that he did not say that the female intellect was inferior. He said that their responsibility in matters pertaining to intellect (such as finanicial, which are inherently judicial in the sense that it has to abide by the law, transactions) and religion is not as great, therefore they should give much charity.

One may ask, what is referenced by "responsibilites pertaining to intellect"? The following phrase about the testimony (which only applies to financial transactions, but this is not mentioned in the hadith, and I will elaborate on this aspect later) references this. Obviously, responsibilties pertaining to intellect doesn't lend itself to a word for word interpretation, and since we are dealing with hadith, the meaning has to be deduced in context.

Proper exegesis of verse 2:282 reads as follows (I have omitted the irrelevant parts)

O Beleivers, when you contract a debt for a fixed term,
you should put it in writing....

.....And let two men from among you bear witness to all
such documents. But if two men are not available,
there should be one man and two women to bear
witness so that if one of the women forgets (anything),
the other may remind her ......

So, it can be clearly seen that this is in regard witnesses of financial contracts. Hmm... it seems that Islam is only patriarchal with regards to the allocation of money.

So women are not deficient in intellect, they are excluded from "responsibilities pertaining to intellect" (which is vaguely unclear.. but with the following reference as "Is not a woman's testimony worth half of the man's?", it emphasizes that this is the verse it is talking about). With reference to the first, many scholars agree that this only applies with witness to contracts regarding financial debts and so on.

One also may wonder "Why did Muhammad (pbuh) not specify 'financial contracts' and just 'testimony' in elaboration of 'responsibilities pertaining to intellect'?" My personal explanation is that this is a khutbah of admonition to women in order to get them to do good works, and I'm sure everyone inherently knew at the time that it was with regards to financial contracts, but the emphasis is that they have less burdens with respect to religious obligations (such as observation of financial contracts and praying during menses"), they should give more in charity as a result.

KE, this is my barebones summarization of my other posts.
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From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 1/1/2006 7:02:23 PM | Message Detail
I'll address your arguments tomorrow, TSF. So far you've been a most resilient adversary. Now is kind of late (It's 3:48 AM over here) and though I kind of suffer from insomnia at a regular basis, some vodka cocktails have been consumed so any greater amount of text would just appear like a big slurry of bending black threads if I concentrate too much.

No, I'm not drunk but the abscence of any other light source except for a 19 inch TFT glowing like this huge lightbulb is quite a turn off for computer related activities.

I'm still on the position to take on this one...

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Hey guess what? There are more females than males in the world!

All other arguments = pwnt

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Well, then I guess I'll have to take your word for it, whether or not you have the proof. I mean who gives a damn about Google or any other search engine that features this link:

http://www.nlk.cz/czech/casopis/spoluprace/zpravywho/editace/Hidden%20Penalties%20of%20Gender%20Inequality.pdf

I mean, the whole chapter two of that PDF must be a lie. The research of Kynch, done in 1985 must be a big lie.

Seriously though. The Kynch research which apparently still holds enough water to be used in an essay issued in 2003, implies that the stereotype about there being more women than men in a global aspect is derived from statistics from Europe and Northern America where there is a ratio of 1.05 to the advantage of females, while globally, based on Kynch's research, there is about 98 women per 100 men.

I think I'll take this scholastic document over your superficial statement without any academical support. That is until you actually have proof based on some solid research.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 7:23:42 PM | Message Detail
Adversary? What the hell? I just saw some blatant omissions in your explanation, and I brought them to light. I hardly call this a debate.

My main problem with your argument is that you ignored that the premise of the khutbah, the paying of Zakat and committment to good deeds.

I really don't understand how one can interpret "Insults to women". Sure, it is admonition, and women do have a bit less responsibility in terms of faith in general (such as the fact that they don't have to go to jum'ah prayer, I do). They get tons of other exemptions too. They can wear gold or silk, I can't.

A lot of your argument revolves around the so-called insult that women are deficient in intelligence.

That's not what he said:

He said they were deficient in responsibilities. Why would he mention such a thing? So he could endorse them to give them more charity. And the main point I brought up was that this was a khutbah, so it is automatically addressed to the group of women in the crowd. The reason one brings up certain issues at a khutbah is because some things need to be mentioned, such as the paying of zakat and so on.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 9:02:37 PM | Message Detail
I made a logical error in my post: This hadith was a khutbah for an eid prayer, not for a Friday prayer.

A khutbah is a khutbah though. The giving of alms is part of the eid-al-fitr.
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/1/2006 10:38:36 PM | Message Detail
It has also come to my attention that in order to fully understand the hadith, you're going to need a whole other set of textbooks, because there are reports that some of these statements are not meant to condemn, but are just a reaction of surprise from a certain person's reactions.

Also, there are some slight differences in the reporting of this narrative, and these differences can change the meaning altogether:

Here's the documentation, as presented by another scholar:

Nevertheless, I would like to add here that all the above explanation is given with the presumption that the words of the referred narrative have been correctly ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh). It is, however, possible that there may have been a mistake in the ascription of these words to the Prophet (pbuh). If we look closely at the different versions of the referred narrative, we see that the chance of a mistake by one or more of the narratives cannot be ruled out. For instance, in the narrative reported in Bukhari (Kitaab al-Haydh), the Prophet (pbuh) delivered the complete sermon in a gathering of women[1]. In Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, however, the narrative has been reported in a slightly different manner[2]. According Musnad's reporting, the clarification of the statement ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh) regarding women being deficient in responsibilities relating to religion and intellect was not sought by the women in the gathering . On the contrary, it was only the wife of Abd Allah ibn Masood (ra), who sought this clarification, sometime after the gathering had dispersed. In yet another reporting, as it appears in Daarmiy[3], the words relating to the deficiency in the two responsibilities were not even spoken by the Prophet (pbuh). They were spoken later, by Abd Allah ibn Masood (ra), without ascribing these words to the Prophet (pbuh). Thus, it seems quite possible, keeping the narrative of Daarmiy in perspective, that some of the later narrators may have ascribed the words actually spoken by Abdullah ibn Masood (ra) to the Prophet (pbuh) by mistake. If this be the case, then the Prophet (pbuh) did not even mention any reduction in the responsibilities of women.

I suggest that one should not pass judgements on the hadith so quickly, because there is a verification process that is involved, and if there is something controversial about it, such as differences in narration, one should not ascribe to such an opinion quickly.

The problem with a surface reading of hadith without the proper scholarship is that it omits two major things:

1. The context (such as, whether Muhammad (pbuh) said it out of surprise, because one could take something seriously that he said when he simply said it in immediate response to something else). Many sahih hadiths do not report context, and that's why there are tons of textbooks with regards to ilm-ul-hadith for scholars to study from.

2. The variations of readings and narrations, as presented above.

It is the stance of many, many scholars that negative contradictions are to be given merit with regards to a hadith. In light of this, it is really, really hard to form a uniform opinion on this one account, because there are different reliable narrations saying different things. Either way, the negative part in the hadith isn't really negative at all toward's women; it's just emphasizing that women have less responsibilities whne it comes to Islamic-related obligations, and this is isn't even what the hadith is about. It's about a khutbah on charity given on eid.
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From: NindramonOmega | Posted: 1/2/2006 6:59:16 AM | Message Detail
http://www.hindu.com/2004/02/19/stories/2004021902120500.htm


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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/2/2006 10:33:41 AM | Message Detail
^^ Isn't that India only though?
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From: The Stealth Fox | Posted: 1/2/2006 10:38:45 AM | Message Detail
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2005 est.)

http://www.indexmundi.com/world/sex_ratio.html

Very close though.
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From: H3R3TIK | Posted: 1/2/2006 1:53:40 PM | Message Detail
From: Kid Einstein | Posted: 1/1/2006 4:44:50 PM | Message Detail

What you have failed to understand is that this rule is static. It does not care about women being succesful in business, because their inheritance value is fixed from day one at their birth. What you also have failed to understand is that from the provided hadith, is that there is a relation between the woman's intellect and the inheritance value arbitrarily decided by gender.


Did you know that in Islam, that the money that female members earn, if they so choose, can be kept for themselves? While for male members it is obligatory to provide for their family? This is for a reason. This is so the finances of a family are not abused by only one person. Besides, if there are no male members to take the inheritance, IIRC, females get more.
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I havent read all above but check this thread http://forums.understanding-islam.org/community/showthread.php?p=50769#post50769

Imran
2nd February 2006, 21:53
I think women should. Why not?

What if a guy who has not much chance of going to heaven volunteer to be one of those males?

He has to be virgin right?