there are some people who make a claim that islam doesn't recognize the station of women
that islam actually takes from the status of women and doesn't grant them the type of status that
they truly deserve we believe that islam grants them the status that they deserve and doesn't take
them above where they deserve like it grants men the status that they deserve and doesn't take them
above where they should be and we know this from many different angles we know that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam encouraged the status of the woman by saying to the individual who asked
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam who is the most deserving individual to have good companion
companionship of minor prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam the prophet said your mother your mother
your mother then he said your father so he encouraged the status of women in that case
and he actually made her elevated above the man because there's many sacrifices that the mother
has to make in order for the child to be born in order for the child to be raised in order for the
child to be nourished and so forth similarly in other cases the prophet saws may say things
which may be to the advantage of a man because that circumstance dictates that
this is the natural balance that islam comes to organize and recognize as well but some people
some people who i would say are a bit cynical perhaps and sometimes maybe not cynical as
well maybe they have good intentions but they they don't have perhaps the knowledge and understanding
to be able to understand otherwise they may take some statements of the prophets of sallam out of
context and say that this particular statement is an evidence that islam doesn't recognize the
status of women i'll give you one example the prophet saws he said that i have not seen anyone
who is more defective in intellect and religion more capable of outsmarting a man who himself is
very intelligent than one of you now pause here and stop firstly when it comes to the defect in
religion the prophet saw said let me describe this and he said that refers to a woman not having the
obligation to pray and not having the obligation to fast when she happens to be within her height
this is a defect meaning this is a this is almost a concession so we have to translate the word
defect over here as a concession the arabs have a tendency of doing that sometimes they use similar
words for a meaning which is close to it okay especially if they're trying to say two things
at the same time for example i'll tell you in the quran those people who ended up living in the
city of madinah and also inside of iman do people live inside of iman no but allah was trying to say
those people who live in madina and those people who the iman lives in their heart but he said
it the other way around so the arabs have many linguistic instruments without understanding that
you may misunderstand a statement of the prophet sallam so similarly here the prophet sallam is
not saying there's a defect in the religion he's saying that the person has a concession
which otherwise men don't have now let me ask you does any woman want to get rid of this concession
well obviously less burden than most women will say actually you know what i'm going through
difficulty already it's okay i don't want to do this that's the first part the second part is what
about the intellect what about the intellect is a woman truly defective in the intellect well in
this hadith the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is speaking of two different types of intellects
he's speaking of akan and he's speaking of loop so he's saying that a woman despite her defect in
akan in a form of intellect and i'll explain what it is she ends up outsmarting a man
so he's actually establishing for her intelligence in a very very rhetorically powerful way that
despite some weakness within a form of intellect she's able to out smart a man now the question
here is that in the modern context how do we understand that and based on modern findings
how do we understand that well based on modern findings we find that neurological findings that
is that a man has certain types of intelligences or a certain type of intelligence in which he is
superior to women but likewise a woman has a certain type of intelligence in which she
is actually superior to man so when it comes to emotion and emotional intelligence a woman
is stronger than a man and this is something that is established within research there's a lot of
research behind this if you need to search it up just look it up on google you'll find
it emotional intelligence and the superiority of women within that now i want to flip the table and
the discussion and turn the tables on the people that use this hadith to try to claim that islam
doesn't recognize the status of the of a woman and say this hadith is actually a miracle from among
the miracles of the prophet sallallahu alaihi how so how did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
know without the type of neurological research that we have today that a woman is actually more
emotionally intelligent and superior than man fourteen hundred years ago that is of course
through the allah had given to the prophet sallam and the prophet saw sallam he proved to us within
this hadith yet again that the statements that come out of the mouth of the prophet
are but truth maybe some people may not be able to understand that truth but that means there's a
defect within the understanding of the person and not within the statement of the prophet salallahu
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