Fariq Naik – Is it not Disgraceful to Consider the Women as half a Witness

24 September 2023

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The speaker discusses the issue of two women being equal to one man, which they believe is a common misconception. They also mention the use of witnesses in various political and cultural situations, but emphasize that the aim is not to imply anything.

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The 15th most common question that is there in the minds of the non

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Muslims is that why are two women witnesses equal to one man

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witness, indicating that Islam degrades the woman, Allah subhanaw

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taala talks about witnesses in no less than five different places

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without mentioning the gender except for one place and sort of

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Bukhara chapter number two was to add to or you believe when you

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deal in any financial transactions involving future obligations, put

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it down in writing, and take two men witnesses, but if you cannot

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find two men, then take one man and two women and Allah subhanaw

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taala further continues and says that if one of them us the second

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will remind her so this was is only talking about financial

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transactions and nothing else.

"I really think this is one of the greatest causes one could support"

Mufti Ismail Menk