Two Women Witness
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Hi Omari,
Here is an article on the subject.
http//www.free-minds.org/women/2to1.htmPeace!
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Peaceful Muslim
Shukran jiddan ya akhi!!
I never even thought of those other ayaat in reference to women being witnessses!!
What you said makes sense.
I always guard against sterotypes, so I just did not want to conclude that this ayaat is speaking to some type of deficiency of women. After all, it says the other can remind her if the one errs. So if women were naturally or consistently deficient, one could not remind the other.
But, at the same time, women and men are not the same. To counter attack the Islaam detractors on this women issue, I can't pretend that men and women are the same.
Now, some may still take issue and say, why can't two women be witness and no man be present? I also noticed or think I noticed that, the verbs used in that portion of the ayaat do not seem to be feminine verbs. On second look, maybe there is no feminine dual pronoun suffix in arabic. But it does say iHda which is the feminine for waHad? And tudhkkira is the feminine for yudhikkir I believe?
At anyrate, this is to be understood as dealing with financial transactions. And I just noticed, all of this comes after the issue of the one owing the debit being unsound. If the one owing the debt is sound, are the other witnessess still needed? Because the scribes is putting it all in writing. Are the two men witnesses or one male and two females really acting as guardians for the unsound party to the transaction?