>>20149
1)Men have more obligations than women in Islam. He has to support his , his parents, provide a dowry for marriage, etc. The women has zero obligations. Even if she was filthy rich, she is not expected to provide for anyone else than herself. Frankly, I pity the guy more.
2) http://www.answering-christianity.com/karim/why_two_women_witnesses.htm
3) this ayat is about wudhu. We are to purify ourselves completely before prayer. The same is expected on the women if they have contact with men because touching a non-muhrim breaks it.
4) Then why mention it. Islam promotes modesty. Also, the surah you're quoting form also mentions on how a single woman's testimony requires 4 other testimony when it comes to accusations of her chastity. Guess Islam is oppressing men as well /s.
5) the reason tilth is used here is because it is used for growing crops. A farmer approaches a tilth with the intention of producing crops. A husband should approach his wife in a similar manner, with the intention of producing offsprings.
6)Read the next line: "But if you fear that you will not be just, then [marry only] one or those your right hand possesses".
the are also multiple reasons for the allowance for polygamy. The big one at the time was then husbands died in war. Allowing the men to take up an extra wife (remember, the men are expected to provide for all their wives and children) allowed for widows to receive proper monetary and societal aid.
And still, the men is expected to be able to equally treat his wives, if he cannot, then he is not permitted to marrying more than once.
7) You misinterpreted this verse. You have to read from verse 19, but it deals with the pagan goddesses of the Arab world at the time.
Disbelievers stated them as daughters of god and as angels. In Islam, angels are not divinity, nor can they intercede for you. Even in the time of Adam, the angels bowed to man, not the other way around. You are mixing western perspective in your interpretation
and by your logic, a servant of humanity must only be male then.
8) Not sure what your point is here. Yes, slavery laws exist in Islam. Anyway there's a lot of sticklers for this topic, it's not a free slave harem as it appears to be. The guideline for the relations with a slave girl is as follows:
- girls captured as prisoners of war. they go to the islamic govt who then decides to either free them, ransom, exchange prisoners or lastly, distribute them to the soldiers.
-soldiers are allowed to have sex with the slave given to them BUT can only do so after ensuring that they are not pregnant (through waiting for the menstrual cycle to occur)
- however, if a child is born from the relation, then the child is consider a full legitimate child, and the mother can no longer be sold to anyone and is fully freed upon the masters death.
-also, the master cannot have sexual relations with a slave if she is married to someone else but he may still have her work for him in other ways.
the slave girls are generally procured during times of war. This method was used to ensure that the women (whose husbands may have died) are provided for and helps them integrate into society. Their children getting full inheritance rights is acts
as a deterrence against wanton sex while also giving the slave a better future.
>>20179
the reason we believe that you simply copy pasted tidbits you took from various anti-Islam sites is because you did not actually read through these verses. The verse about wudhu for example is obviously talking about spiritual cleanliness, yet you took it as a passage stating women are unclean.
The verse on the angles is also one which isn't very complicated to understand and it's meaning would have been obvious in context with the rest of the passage.
An surah an-nisa (which is literally "The Women"), the one you repeatedly quote, would also list things like how women are not to be treated as part of the estate, or how a dowry is mandatory and is forbidden for a man to take it back, and even the establishment of justice for women.
I don't know if you will actually read any of this, but please form a fair opinion of us and not just from the anti-muslim propaganda.