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[quote]Wenpam3, there's a problem I see with your opinion. Islam proposes that men and women are equal. Correct? Islam proposes that men and women are different. Correct? Islam assigns different responsibilities to men and women. Correct? Islam assigns the primary (financial) responsibility of bread-winning to men. Correct? Islam assigns the primary (moral) responsibility of the upbringing of children to women. Correct? How can you or I, from the above, deduce that it automatically means that women are less sensible than men, by nature? How can you accept that a lady who has to look after her kids at home, one who - under normal circumstances - gets to spend greater time and effort with her children (sons included), is intellectually less stimulated than men? How can you judge that to ask such a question is to, in fact, question God and the human make-up? While Islam came to Arabia, heralding a new era for women. Of their emancipation, of their freedom, it is ironic that we have come to be accepted as a male chauvinistic creed, through the acts and tilted beliefs of Muslims themselves. Thank you, though, for referring to the hadith quoted at the beginning of the thread. I'm glad there are at least three of us who'll refer to sources while discussing. Let me give you the interpretation I accept of the hadith - which reached me through the pen of Mr. Shehzad Saleem: [size=2][b]The following Hadith is generally presented to support the view that women are less sensible than men: عن أبي سعيد الخدري قال خرج رسول الله في أضحى أو فطر إلى المصلى فمر على النساء فقال …ما رأيت من ناقصات عقل ودين أذهب للب الرجل الحازم من إحداكن قلن وما نقصان ديننا وعقلنا يا رسول الله قال أليس شهادة المرأة مثل نصف شهادة الرجل قلن بلى قال فذلك من نقصان عقلها أليس إذا حاضت لم تصل ولم تصم قلن بلى قال فذلك من نقصان دينها (بخارى رقم: 298) Abu Sa‘id Khudri narrates that the Prophet (sws) while once talking to a group of women on the occasion of Eid ul Fitr or Eid ul Adha said: ‘… and I have seen no one more than you rob even a resolute man of his senses in spite of being Naqisati ‘Aql wa Din’. They said: ‘O Allah’s Messenger, what is this Naqs in religious and worldly affairs?’ He said: ‘Is not the evidence of a woman equal to half of a man’s’. They said: ‘Yes’. He said: ‘This is their Naqs in worldly affairs’. He said: ‘Is it not a fact that when they enter the period of menses they neither pray nor fast’. They said: ‘Yes’. Whereupon he said: ‘This is the Naqs in religious affairs’. (Bukhari, No: 298) This misconception has arisen because of a wrong translation of the Arabic phrase Naqisati ‘Aql wa Din. The word ‘Naqs’ has generally been translated as ‘defective’ keeping in view the Urdu meaning of the word. However, in Arabic, the verb ‘نَقَصَ’ (Naqasa) means ‘to reduce’ and the word ‘عقل’ (‘Aql) here means ‘worldly affairs’ since it is used in conjugation with the word ‘دين’ (religion). Keeping in view, both these aspects, the correct translation of the above phrase, if the context is also taken into consideration, is that women have been given a relief and reduction in their worldly and religious affairs. The relief in worldly responsibilities, as is mentioned in this Hadith, is that women have not been dragged in certain activities and spheres. For example, the Qur’an urges men to testify on legal documents so that women are relieved of appearing in courts and wasting their precious time on affairs which others can handle. Only if men are not available should a society involve women in such affairs. The relief women have been given in religious affairs is that they are not required to pray or fast during their monthly periods as is mentioned in this Hadith. So what must be kept in mind is the fact that the meaning of a word does not always remain the same in two different languages. For example, the word ‘غَلِيْظ’ in Arabic means ‘firm’ while in Urdu it means ‘dirty’. Thus the Qur’an (4:21) has referred to marriage as ‘مِيثَاقاً غَلِيْظَا’ (a firm agreement). Moreover, people who think that women are less sensible than men on the basis of this Hadith do not realize that the Hadith is not merely saying that women are Naqisati ‘Aql, it is also saying they are Naqisati Din. If Naqisati ‘Aql means that there is some defect in their ‘Aql (intellect), then by the same token, Naqisati Din should mean that there is also some shortcoming in the religion they follow! This of course is absurd and as referred to above is the result of keeping the Urdu meaning of the word in consideration.[/b][/size=2] Source: http://www.monthly-renaissance.com/Feb22y5.htm I would appreciate your comments on the above. Does it clarify concepts? Are you willing to change your opinion? Edited by: saadiamalik on Thursday, February 17, 2005 2:02 AM[/quote]
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