Common Folk Using Common Sense

Qur’an 4:11 - “(The males share is that of two females). Man is more perfect than the woman in creation, and intelligence, and in the religious sphere, such as the suitability to be a judge, and a leader in worship. Also, the testimony of the man is twice that of the woman. So that whoever is given great responsibilities must be given correspondingly great privileges. As the woman is deficient in intelligence and of great lust, if she is given much money, much corruption will be the result. ”

1 Hadith No. 301 - “Allah’s Apostle once said to a group of women : ‘I have not seen any one 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 of your 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 your religion.’”

Al-Islam wa-l-Mar’ah al-Mu’aserah - “The woman’s share of intellect does not reach man’s level.”

1 Hadith No. 28 - “Women are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favours 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.”

“The Age, Life behind a veil of Islam” - ‘Woman was made to bear and feed children. Therefore she is very emotional. And she is forgetful, because if she did not forget how it is to give birth she would not have another child. That is why she will not be as reliable a witness as a man.”

Al-Musanaf by Abu Bakr Ahmad Ibn ‘Abd Allah Ibn Mousa Al-Kanadi - “‘Omar [one of the Khalifs] was once talking when his wife interjected, so he said to her: ‘You are a toy, if you are needed we will call you.’”

Ihy’a ‘Uloum ed-Din by Ghazali - “The woman is ‘awrah. When she goes outside (the house), the devil welcomes her.” [editor's note: The Encyclopedia of Islam defines 'awrah as pudendum, that is "the external genitals", Latin pudendum (literally) 'a thing to be ashamed of']].

Hadith No. 61 - “The prophet of Allah said: When a man calls his wife to satisfy his desire, let her come to him though she is occupied at the oven.”

Qur’an, 26:166 - “The woman was created so that man can rest in her … for by her he gets rid of his sexual storm. The female sexual organ was created for men. For when Allah the most high said ‘(You) leave what your Lord has created for you of your wives?’”

Tuffaha, Ahmad Zaky, Al-Mar’ah wal- Islam, Dar al-Kitab al-Lubnani - “If a woman offered one of her breasts to be cooked and the other to be roasted, she still will fall short of fulfilling her obligations to her husband. And besides that if she disobeys her husband even for a twinkling of an eye, she would be thrown in the lowest part of Hell, except she repents and turns back.”

Suyuti, commenting on Qur’an 4:34 - “If blood, suppuration, and pus, were to pour from the husband’s nose and the wife licked it with her tongue, she would still never be able to fulfil his rights over her.”

Qur’an, 4:34 - “Righteous women are therefore obedient, … And those you fear may be rebellious (nushuz) admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.”

Ihy’a ‘Uloum ed-Din by Ghazali, Dar al-Kotob al-’Elmeyah - “Some men have such a compelling sexual desire that one woman is not sufficient to protect them [from adultery]. Such men therefore preferably marry more than one woman and may have up to four wives.”

‘Abd ar-Rahman al-Gaziri, al-Fiqh ‘ala al-Mazahib al-Arba’a, Dar al-Kutub al- ‘Elmeyah - “The marriage contract is designed by the legislator so that the husband may benefit from the sexual organ of the woman and the rest of her body for the purpose of pleasure. As such the husband owns by the marriage contract, this exclusive benefit.”

‘Abd ar-Rahman al-Gaziri, al-Fiqh ‘ala al-Mazahib al-Arba’a, Dar al-Kutub al- ‘Elmeyah - “The husband has the right to prevent his wife from looking after and breast feeding her baby, from her previous husband, (if she was living in the husband’s house), because that will make her too busy to attend to the husband, and it will affect her beauty and cleanliness, all these are the rights of the husband alone.”