Posted by Amir on 4/8/2009, 9:52 am, in reply to "Re: Selective quoting avoids the truth"
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"Unto the male is the equivalent share of two females."
There is also a case where the female gets twice of what the male gets. The issue is specifically dealing with the sons and daughters in case of inheritance. The son is to receive twice as that of the female. The logic behind this is simple. Islam lays down the bread earning responsibilities on the shoulders of man. The wife can work all she wants but she need not participate in the monetary needs of the house. The money earned by her is hers and the husband has no right upon it. Keeping this in mind, sons are given larger shares because they are to take care of their future wives and children. The daughters have no such financial liabilities. They will be taken care by their husbands. If their marriage does not work then their responsibility comes back upon the shoulders of their brothers. Hence to financially secure the male he is given double of what the female is given.
"When it's time to pray and you have just used the toilet or touched a woman, be sure to wash up. If you can't find any water, just rub some dirt on yourself. "
Again please read the actual translation of the verse. It refers to having sex with your spouse. After sex you are to take a bath before you can pray!
The action of rubbing dirt is called tayyamum and is a substitute of the wuzu in case there is no water.
"Lot offers his daughters to a mob of angel rapers."
The actual verse:
And his people came rushing towards him, and they had been long in the habit of practising abominations. He said: "O my people! Here are my daughters: they are purer for you (if ye marry)! Now fear Allah, and cover me not with shame about my guests! Is there not among you a single right-minded man?"
The people being talked about were all homosexuals, which is not allowed in Islam. When the ‘angels’(disguised as men) came to Lut(as) the people over there wanted to practice homosexuality with them. To that Lut(as) responded that if they wanted they can marry his daughters as they were purer for them – that they should practice heterosexuality rather than homosexuality.
Yes it is truly insulting for the females that men should be heterosexuals rather than homosexuals!
"When the doom of Allah comes, pregnant women will suffer miscarriages, nursing mothers with forget their babies."
Translation of related verses:
O mankind! fear your Lord! for the convulsion of the Hour (of Judgment) will be a thing terrible!
The Day ye shall see it, every mother giving suck shall forget her suckling- babe, and every pregnant female shall drop her load (unformed): thou shalt see mankind as in a drunken riot, yet not drunk: but dreadful will be the Wrath of Allah. (22:1-2)
These verses only show how dreadful the Hour of Judgment will be. How is this an insult to the women?
"You don't have to be modest around your wives or your slave girls "that your right hand possess."
Who abstain from sex,
Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess,- for (in their case) they are free from blame, (23:5-6)
So it is okay to have sex with your wives. I do not see that as an insult to women! As far as the captives are concerned…
In the “Jihads” (Islamic wars) that took place, women who fought war were also, at times, taken as prisoners by the Pagan, Jewish and Muslim armies. Due to lack of the prison systems in that era, the captives were to be kept as slaves. The war captives could not be left roaming about freely among the communities otherwise they could even plan assassinations. These women captives used to be distributed as part of the booty among the soldiers, after their return to Islamic territory. The Head of the State would distribute the captives among the soldiers. Both men and women captives were distributed. It was made permissible for the soldier to have sexual relations with their female captives. This relationship was strictly consensual in nature. No one was given permission to rape anyone.
Due to the presence of prison systems today, this concept of keeping slaves does not apply today.
"Believing women must lower their gaze and be modest, cover themselves with veils, and not reveal themselves except to their husbands, relatives, children, and slaves."
Believing men must also lower their gaze and be modest. Secondly “they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty…..”(24:31) This is the concept of Hijab. How is it insulting?
"When Allah or Muhammad decide that a man and a woman should marry, they must marry."
What nonsense! The concerned verse:
“It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger to have any option about their decision: if any one disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he is indeed on a clearly wrong Path.”(33:36)
It is like in a court of law. When the supreme court passes a judgment regarding lets say a dispute case then one cannot appeal to a higher court. Similarly as Prophet Muhammad(saw) was also a judge, Allah(swt) made it clear to the believers that his judgment is final. Where in the world this guy brings in marriage, I have no clue whatsoever!
But it's OK for Muhammad's wives to talk with certain people.
The ‘certain people’ being: “their fathers or their sons, their brothers, or their brother's sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the (slaves) whom their right hands possess. And, (ladies), fear Allah. for Allah is Witness to all things.”
Yes...Really unfair! I think the author of the referred website did not want them to communicate with their father or brothers etc.
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