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[quote][font=Trebuchet MS][size=2][b]And call in two male witnesses from among your men [over the document of loan]. And if two men cannot be found then one man and two women from among those whom you deem appropriate as witnesses so that if either of them gets confused the other reminds her. (2:282)

And upon those of your women who commit fornication, call in four people from among yourselves to testify over them; if they testify [to their ill-ways], confine them to their homes till death overtakes them or God formulates another way for them. (4:15)

Upon those who accuse honourable women [of fornication] and bring not four witnesses as evidence [for their accusation], inflict eighty stripes, and never accept their testimony in future. They indeed are transgressors. But those who repent and mend their ways, Allah is Most-Forgiving and Ever-Merciful. (24:4-5)
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I would like to use this forum, as a means to study various commonly held(mis)conceptions on Women in Islam. The first in these series is "The Testimony of Women". Please let us have your views on the issue. More specifically, [b]does the Qur'an require the witnessing of one man to stand equal to that of two women?[/b]

Wasalaam.

Saadia[/size=2][/font=Trebuchet MS]

Edited by: saadiamalik on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:09 PM[/quote]

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