hedaya
24-04-01, 05:41 PM
Alsalam Alykom,
i got this in my e-mail, i would like to share it with every body.
May Allah guid us to the right path.
hedaya
>>Assalamu alikum,
>
>Women in the Qur'ân and Women in the Bible
>By Sultana Yusufali (a 17-year-old high school student)
>Published in Toronto Star Young People’s Press
>
>Qur'ân: "And the believers, men and women, are protecting
>friends one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong,
>and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they
>obey Allâh and His messenger. As for these, Allâh will have
>mercy on them. Lo! Allâh is mighty, wise."(9):71
>
>Qur'ân: "And they (women) have rights similar to those of men
>over them in a just manner" (2):228
>
>Qur'ân: "Whoso does an ill deed, he will be repaid the like thereof,
>while whoso does right, whether male or female, and is a believer,
>(all) such will enter the garden, where they will be nourished
>without stint." (40):40.
>
>Bible: "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I
>suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man,
>but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And
>Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the
>transgression." (1 Timothy 2:11-14)
>
>Bible says: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is
>not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be
>under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any
>thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for
>women to speak in the church." (1 Corinthians 14:34)
>
>Bible says: "Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the
>Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as christ also is the
>head of the church, he himself being the savior of the body. But as
>the church is subject to christ, so also the wives ought to be to
>their husbands in everything." (Ephesians 5:22-24)
>
> Qur'ân: "And of His signs is this: he created for you
>spouses from yourselves that you might find tranquillity in them,
>and he ordained between you love and mercy. Lo, herein indeed
>are signs for folk who reflect." (30):21
>
> The Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam said: "The
>best believers are the best in conduct, and the best of you are
>those who are best to their wives." (Tirmidhi) narrated by Abû
>Hurayrah
>
>Bible: "A bad wife brings humiliation, downcast looks, and a
>wounded heart. Slack of hand and weak of knee is the man whose
>wife fails to make him happy. Woman is the origin of sin, and it is
>through her that we all die. Do not leave a leaky cistern to drip or
>allow a bad wife to say what she likes. If she does not accept your
>control, divorce her and send her away" (Ecclesiasticus 25:25).
>
> Qur'ân: "...But consort with them in kindness, for if you hate
> them it may happen that you hate a thing wherein Allâh
>has placed much good." (4):19
>
>Bible: If a father / husband does not endorse his daughter's / wife's
>vows, all pledges made by her become null and void, in other words
>a woman cannot make any contract on her own without the
>permission of a husband or father: "but if her father forbids her
>when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which
>she obligated herself will stand ....Her husband may confirm or
>nullify any vow she makes or any sworn pledge to deny herself"
>(Numbers. 30:2-15)
>
> In Islam a woman's wealth is her own and her husband has no
>rights over it:
>
> Qur'ân: "...and covet not the thing in which Allâh has made
> some of you excel others. Unto men a fortune from that
>which they have earned, and unto women a fortune from that
>which they have earned. (Envy not one another) but ask Allâh of
>his bounty. Verily! Allâh is knower of all things." (4):32.
>
>Bible says: "A virgin who is raped must marry her rapist (if they are
>"found")- (Deut 22:28-29) "if a man happens to meet a virgin who is
>not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
>he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry
>the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as
>he lives" Deuteronomy 22:28-30
>
> Qur'ân: "And those who launch a charge against chaste
>women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their
>allegations) - flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their
>evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors" (24:4)
>
>The Bible blames Eve for the original sin: (genesis 3:12-16) "and
>the man (Adam) said, the woman (Eve) whom thou gavest to be
>with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord god
>said unto the woman, what is this that thou hast done? And the
>woman said, the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat..unto the
>woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
>conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire
>shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
>
> In the Qur'ân, both Adam and Eve share the blame for eating
>from the tree.
>This can be seen in the Qur'ân in such verses al-Baqarah (2):36,
>al-A'raf (7):22-24. They were also both forgiven by God Almighty for
>this sin.
>
> Qur'ân: "O Adam dwell with your wife in the garden and
>enjoy as you wish but approach not this tree or you run into harm
>and transgression.
> Then satan whispered to them in order to reveal to them
>their shame that was hidden from them and he said: 'your Lord
>only forbade you this tree lest you become angels or such beings
>as live forever.' And he swore to them both that he was their
>sincere adviser. So by deceit he brought them to their fall: when
>they tasted the tree their shame became manifest to
>them and they began to sew together the leaves of the garden over
>their bodies. And their Lord called unto them: 'did I not forbid you
>that tree and tell you that satan was your avowed enemy?' They
>said: 'our Lord we have wronged our own souls and if You forgive
>us not and bestow not upon us Your mercy, we shall certainly be
>lost' " (7:19-23).
>
>The Bible says that giving birth to a female child makes a woman
>more "unclean" than if she had a male child. Leviticus 12:2-5
>"Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, if a woman have
>conceived seed, and born a male child: then she shall be unclean
>seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity
>shall she be unclean. And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin
>shall be circumcised. And she shall then continue in the blood of
>her purifying thirty three days; she shall touch no hallowed thing,
>nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be
>fulfilled. But if she bear a female child, then she shall be
>unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in
>the blood of her purifying sixty six days."
>
>Ecclesiastics 7:26-28 "and I find more bitter than death the woman
>who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains.
>The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will
>ensnare....While I was still searching but not finding, I found one
>upright man among a thousand but not one upright woman among
>them all."
>
> Qur'ân: "And their Lord has heard them (and he says): Verily! I
> suffer not the work of any worker, male or female, to be lost.
>You proceed one from another." (3):195.
>
> Qur'ân: "And whoso does good works, whether of male or
>female, and he (or she) is a believer, such will enter paradise and
>they will not be wronged the dint in a date stone." The Noble
>Qur'ân, an-Nisâ (4):124.
>
> Qur'ân: "Whosoever does right, whether male or female, and
>is a believer, him verily we shall quicken with good life, and We
>shall pay them a recompense in proportion to the best of what
>they used to do." (16):97.
>
> "A man asked the prophet Muhammad sallallaahu 'alayhi wa
>sallam: 'whom should I honor most?' The prophet replied: 'Your
>mother'. 'And who comes next?' Asked the man. The prophet
>replied: 'Your mother'. 'And who comes next?' Asked the man. The
>prophet replied: 'Your mother'. 'And who comes next?' Asked the
>man. The prophet replied: 'Your father' " (Bukhari and Muslim).
>
>Bible says that a woman must cover her head as a sign of man's
>authority over her:
>
>"And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head
>uncovered dishonours her head - it is just as though her head were
>shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her
>hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut
>off or shaved off, she should cover her head. A man ought not to
>cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the
>woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but
>woman from man; neither was man created for woman,
>but woman for man. For this reason, and because of the angels,
>the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head" (1
>Corinthians 11:3-10).
>
>Bible: 1 corinthians 11:5-10: "But every woman that prayeth or
>prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head."
>
>Bible: 1 corinthians 11:13: "Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a
>woman pray unto god (with her head) uncovered?"
>
> The Qur'ân teaches that a woman must be covered out of
>modesty and to protect her from harassment:
>
> Qur'ân: "Say to the believing men that they should lower their
>gaze and guard their modesty......And say to the believing
>women that they should lower their gaze and guard their
>modesty; that they should not display their beauty and
>ornaments except what ordinarily appear thereof; that
>they should draw their veils over their bosoms...." (24:30,31).
>
> Qur'ân "O prophet, tell your wives and daughters and the
>believing women that they should cast their outer garments over
>their bodies (when abroad) so that they should be known and
>not molested" (33:59).
>
>According to the Bible (Numbers 27:1-11), widows and sisters don't
>inherit at all. Daughters can inherit only if their deceased father had
>no sons.
>
> Qur'ân: "Unto the men (of a family) belongs a share of that
>which parents and near kindred leave, and unto the women a
>share of that which parents and near kindred leave, whether it be
>little or much, a legal share." (4):77.
>
>Bible: Leviticus 15:19-30 "And if a woman have an issue (her
>period/menses), [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be
>put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean
>until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation
>shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be
>unclean. And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes,
>and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even. And
>whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his
>clothes, and bathe [himself] in water,
>and be unclean until the even. And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on any
>thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean
>until the even.....(It goes on and on)."
i got this in my e-mail, i would like to share it with every body.
May Allah guid us to the right path.
hedaya
>>Assalamu alikum,
>
>Women in the Qur'ân and Women in the Bible
>By Sultana Yusufali (a 17-year-old high school student)
>Published in Toronto Star Young People’s Press
>
>Qur'ân: "And the believers, men and women, are protecting
>friends one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong,
>and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they
>obey Allâh and His messenger. As for these, Allâh will have
>mercy on them. Lo! Allâh is mighty, wise."(9):71
>
>Qur'ân: "And they (women) have rights similar to those of men
>over them in a just manner" (2):228
>
>Qur'ân: "Whoso does an ill deed, he will be repaid the like thereof,
>while whoso does right, whether male or female, and is a believer,
>(all) such will enter the garden, where they will be nourished
>without stint." (40):40.
>
>Bible: "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I
>suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man,
>but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And
>Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the
>transgression." (1 Timothy 2:11-14)
>
>Bible says: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is
>not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be
>under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any
>thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for
>women to speak in the church." (1 Corinthians 14:34)
>
>Bible says: "Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the
>Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as christ also is the
>head of the church, he himself being the savior of the body. But as
>the church is subject to christ, so also the wives ought to be to
>their husbands in everything." (Ephesians 5:22-24)
>
> Qur'ân: "And of His signs is this: he created for you
>spouses from yourselves that you might find tranquillity in them,
>and he ordained between you love and mercy. Lo, herein indeed
>are signs for folk who reflect." (30):21
>
> The Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam said: "The
>best believers are the best in conduct, and the best of you are
>those who are best to their wives." (Tirmidhi) narrated by Abû
>Hurayrah
>
>Bible: "A bad wife brings humiliation, downcast looks, and a
>wounded heart. Slack of hand and weak of knee is the man whose
>wife fails to make him happy. Woman is the origin of sin, and it is
>through her that we all die. Do not leave a leaky cistern to drip or
>allow a bad wife to say what she likes. If she does not accept your
>control, divorce her and send her away" (Ecclesiasticus 25:25).
>
> Qur'ân: "...But consort with them in kindness, for if you hate
> them it may happen that you hate a thing wherein Allâh
>has placed much good." (4):19
>
>Bible: If a father / husband does not endorse his daughter's / wife's
>vows, all pledges made by her become null and void, in other words
>a woman cannot make any contract on her own without the
>permission of a husband or father: "but if her father forbids her
>when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which
>she obligated herself will stand ....Her husband may confirm or
>nullify any vow she makes or any sworn pledge to deny herself"
>(Numbers. 30:2-15)
>
> In Islam a woman's wealth is her own and her husband has no
>rights over it:
>
> Qur'ân: "...and covet not the thing in which Allâh has made
> some of you excel others. Unto men a fortune from that
>which they have earned, and unto women a fortune from that
>which they have earned. (Envy not one another) but ask Allâh of
>his bounty. Verily! Allâh is knower of all things." (4):32.
>
>Bible says: "A virgin who is raped must marry her rapist (if they are
>"found")- (Deut 22:28-29) "if a man happens to meet a virgin who is
>not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
>he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry
>the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as
>he lives" Deuteronomy 22:28-30
>
> Qur'ân: "And those who launch a charge against chaste
>women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their
>allegations) - flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their
>evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors" (24:4)
>
>The Bible blames Eve for the original sin: (genesis 3:12-16) "and
>the man (Adam) said, the woman (Eve) whom thou gavest to be
>with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord god
>said unto the woman, what is this that thou hast done? And the
>woman said, the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat..unto the
>woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
>conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire
>shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
>
> In the Qur'ân, both Adam and Eve share the blame for eating
>from the tree.
>This can be seen in the Qur'ân in such verses al-Baqarah (2):36,
>al-A'raf (7):22-24. They were also both forgiven by God Almighty for
>this sin.
>
> Qur'ân: "O Adam dwell with your wife in the garden and
>enjoy as you wish but approach not this tree or you run into harm
>and transgression.
> Then satan whispered to them in order to reveal to them
>their shame that was hidden from them and he said: 'your Lord
>only forbade you this tree lest you become angels or such beings
>as live forever.' And he swore to them both that he was their
>sincere adviser. So by deceit he brought them to their fall: when
>they tasted the tree their shame became manifest to
>them and they began to sew together the leaves of the garden over
>their bodies. And their Lord called unto them: 'did I not forbid you
>that tree and tell you that satan was your avowed enemy?' They
>said: 'our Lord we have wronged our own souls and if You forgive
>us not and bestow not upon us Your mercy, we shall certainly be
>lost' " (7:19-23).
>
>The Bible says that giving birth to a female child makes a woman
>more "unclean" than if she had a male child. Leviticus 12:2-5
>"Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, if a woman have
>conceived seed, and born a male child: then she shall be unclean
>seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity
>shall she be unclean. And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin
>shall be circumcised. And she shall then continue in the blood of
>her purifying thirty three days; she shall touch no hallowed thing,
>nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be
>fulfilled. But if she bear a female child, then she shall be
>unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in
>the blood of her purifying sixty six days."
>
>Ecclesiastics 7:26-28 "and I find more bitter than death the woman
>who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains.
>The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will
>ensnare....While I was still searching but not finding, I found one
>upright man among a thousand but not one upright woman among
>them all."
>
> Qur'ân: "And their Lord has heard them (and he says): Verily! I
> suffer not the work of any worker, male or female, to be lost.
>You proceed one from another." (3):195.
>
> Qur'ân: "And whoso does good works, whether of male or
>female, and he (or she) is a believer, such will enter paradise and
>they will not be wronged the dint in a date stone." The Noble
>Qur'ân, an-Nisâ (4):124.
>
> Qur'ân: "Whosoever does right, whether male or female, and
>is a believer, him verily we shall quicken with good life, and We
>shall pay them a recompense in proportion to the best of what
>they used to do." (16):97.
>
> "A man asked the prophet Muhammad sallallaahu 'alayhi wa
>sallam: 'whom should I honor most?' The prophet replied: 'Your
>mother'. 'And who comes next?' Asked the man. The prophet
>replied: 'Your mother'. 'And who comes next?' Asked the man. The
>prophet replied: 'Your mother'. 'And who comes next?' Asked the
>man. The prophet replied: 'Your father' " (Bukhari and Muslim).
>
>Bible says that a woman must cover her head as a sign of man's
>authority over her:
>
>"And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head
>uncovered dishonours her head - it is just as though her head were
>shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her
>hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut
>off or shaved off, she should cover her head. A man ought not to
>cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the
>woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but
>woman from man; neither was man created for woman,
>but woman for man. For this reason, and because of the angels,
>the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head" (1
>Corinthians 11:3-10).
>
>Bible: 1 corinthians 11:5-10: "But every woman that prayeth or
>prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head."
>
>Bible: 1 corinthians 11:13: "Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a
>woman pray unto god (with her head) uncovered?"
>
> The Qur'ân teaches that a woman must be covered out of
>modesty and to protect her from harassment:
>
> Qur'ân: "Say to the believing men that they should lower their
>gaze and guard their modesty......And say to the believing
>women that they should lower their gaze and guard their
>modesty; that they should not display their beauty and
>ornaments except what ordinarily appear thereof; that
>they should draw their veils over their bosoms...." (24:30,31).
>
> Qur'ân "O prophet, tell your wives and daughters and the
>believing women that they should cast their outer garments over
>their bodies (when abroad) so that they should be known and
>not molested" (33:59).
>
>According to the Bible (Numbers 27:1-11), widows and sisters don't
>inherit at all. Daughters can inherit only if their deceased father had
>no sons.
>
> Qur'ân: "Unto the men (of a family) belongs a share of that
>which parents and near kindred leave, and unto the women a
>share of that which parents and near kindred leave, whether it be
>little or much, a legal share." (4):77.
>
>Bible: Leviticus 15:19-30 "And if a woman have an issue (her
>period/menses), [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be
>put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean
>until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation
>shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be
>unclean. And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes,
>and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even. And
>whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his
>clothes, and bathe [himself] in water,
>and be unclean until the even. And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on any
>thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean
>until the even.....(It goes on and on)."