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Men and Women’s Equality: By Sister-Alicia Kottoor Dela Riva

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GOD IS WITH US!+++
Men have a degree of advantage over women:

The Quran says, in the last part of Al-Baqara (The Cow) 2:228 that women will have rights similar to the rights against them, but men have a degree (of advantage) over women.

Today, studies have shown that women are equally intelligent as men. Of course, there are biological differences, but there is no evidence that men have any
superiority over women. The Bible says that there is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom 3:22-23).

So, according to the Bible, men and women have no difference in sinning or in nature. And, there is no difference in getting salvation of God, whether a woman
or man. But Hadith says, “Most of the women will be in hell because they disobey their husband.” I will discuss this in detail later.

Husband can beat his wife:

And, we read in An-Nisa (Women) 4:34, “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath men the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend
of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye
fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High
Exalted, Great.”

The Quran talks about a woman so low that her husband can admonish her, banish her to beds apart, and scourge her. Where is the love of God? Can God give this type of commandment? I think not.
Women are crooked:
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 113:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “The woman is like a rib; if you try to straighten her, she will break. So if you want to get benefit from her, do so while she still has some
crookedness.”
Volume 7, Book 62, Number 114:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should not hurt (trouble) his neighbor. And I advise you to take care of the women, for they are
created from a rib and the most crooked portion of the rib is its upper part; if you try to straighten it, it will break, and if you leave it, it will remain crooked, so I
urge you to take care of the women.”
In other words, women are so crooked that you cannot correct them, and if you try to straighten them, it won’t work, and if you leave them that way, they will
remain crooked. This statement of Allah brings so many questions in our minds, like if Allah created women, then why would he create women so crooked that
no one can make her straight? And the result of her crookedness is that she has to bear the eternal punishment. Why should women go to hell for Allah’s
mistake?

Contrary to the Quran, the Bible says, in 1 Peter 3:7, “Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker
vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.”
Husbands were instructed to not only honor their wives, but also to love them, as we read in Colossians 3:19, “Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.” And in Ephesians 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.” And in Ephesians 5:28-29, “So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.”
God wants a husband to be like Christ who gave His life for His bride — the Church.
Wife’s rights can be given to other women:
An-Nisa (Women) 4:3, “And if ye fear that ye will not deal fairly by the orphans, marry of the women, who seem good to you, two or three or four; and if ye
fear that ye cannot do justice (to so many) then one (only) or (the captives) that your right hands possess. Thus, it is more likely that ye will not do injustice.”
A man can marry more than one wife and keep many as concubines. A wife does not have any voice in Islam. Allah has commanded to give the wife’s rights to
other women while the Bible considers it as sin.
Women are going to hell:
Mohammed said women are going to hell because they are ungrateful to their husband, as we read in:

Volume 1, Book 2, Number 28:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
The Prophet said: “I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women who were ungrateful.” It was asked, “Do they disbelieve in Allah?” (or are they ungrateful to Allah?) He replied, “They are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favors and the good (charitable deeds) done to them. If you have always been good (benevolent) to one of them and then she sees something in you (not of her liking), she will say, ‘I have never received any good from you.”
A man can marry as many women as he wants, but Allah expects a woman to be faithful to her unfaithful and betraying husband, otherwise hell is waiting for
her. But contrary to the Quran, the Bible says that men and women have equal access to heaven. The only condition to go to heaven is to accept Jesus as their
Lord and Savior and to be washed by the blood of Jesus.
Women are deficient:
Not only Hadith, but the Quran also talks ill about women’s intelligence. We read in Hadith 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.”
The above Hadith says that, “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.” Then women asked to Mohammed, “What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?” He said, “Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?” And because a woman cannot pray or fast during her menses, she is considered deficient in her religion.
The Quran also says the same thing in Al-Baqara (The Cow) 2:282, “But if the debtor is of poor understanding, or weak, or is unable himself to dictate, then let his guardian dictate in justice. And get two witnesses out of your own men. And if there are not two men (available), then a man and two women, such as you agree for witnesses, so that if one of them (two women) errs, the other can remind her.”

Can the God who created women speak like this? Of course not! And today science has proved that women are not deficient in intelligence or in any other
fields. Women have the same mental power that men possess. The Quran and Hadith were written by the people who really hated women. But contrary to it we will never find these types of statements in the Bible.
Women ruler cannot succeed:
Mohammed who was called the prophet of Allah is saying, “Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler,” as we read in
Volume 9, Book 88, Number 21
Narrated Abu Bakra:
During the battle of Al-Jamal, Allah benefited me with a Word (I heard from the Prophet). When the Prophet heard the news that the people of the Persia had
made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen (ruler), he said, “Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler.”
But is this a true statement? India and many countries had women rulers in their land, and in the leadership of women the country flourished. Even the Bible tells
us about women rulers and prophetess of God, even in Old Testament. We read in Judges 4:4, “Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.” Further, we read that Deborah went with the army and they got great victory.
If Mohammed was the true prophet and Allah is one true God, then why they hated women whole-heartedly?
The Bible gives equal status to women:

When God created Eve, He did not have in His mind to give Adam a servant. He gave Eve as Adam’s companion. And we read that God blessed both equally
in Genesis 1:27-28, “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Notice that God gave a WIFE to Adam NOT WIVES. Yes, God has made one man for one woman or one woman for one man, but the Quran says a man can marry more than one wife. If you read the Quran, you can see that most of the time, Allah gave instruction by calling “wives” about one man. The God of the Bible never gave a commandment of marrying more than one wife. Abraham took Hagar as his wife, but God did not like it, as we read in Genesis 16:17, “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.”
The Bible also says, in Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Moses’ sister Miriam was called a prophetess in Exodus 15:20, “Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.” And Micah gave her the rank of a leader as Moses and Aaron in Micah 6:4, “For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I redeemed you from the house of bondage; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.”
The God of the Bible did not show any partiality toward women as Allah and Mohammed showed in the Quran and Hadith.

 


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