Re: Islam: regard men and women as equal?
What is wrong in my opinion that the ‘word of God’ must not depend on the mercy of interpreters and contexts? Religion is not mathematics, biology or science that you always need schooling.
** I have no objection ** to the work of interpreters, but explanations and translations are one thing, whereas the interpreters and so-called renowned scholars put up their own words into the Allah’ words…..And I think in the case of Allah’ word, it is not respectful.
For example….Quran says….’beat your woman’, and the interpreters have put up the word ‘mildly’ in brackets. What is this misguiding?
In one interpretation I had seen words ‘Jews and Christians’ were so frequently used in brackets with Kafirs and Paganas, that at first I was under impression that the Allah had directly threatened the Jews and Christians, but later a simple Muslim friend cleared the doubts.
(off the topic) There is a verse in Quran that says…’Only Allah knows what is there in a womb’. Have not interpreters changed the interpretation of this verse? I am sure this is not a unique example.
Usually Muslims say that Quran is eternal and relevant for all centuries and here an interpreter says (as per the Schine post) that the quote ‘what your right hand possesses’ was totally religious at that hour and has no use today.
- Sometime back I had asked in another thread if such an act to sleep with ‘what your right hand possesses’ was morally correct…….the debaters ran away.
- What equality means….if Quran is silent if the owner needs to take permission from the ‘slave-lady’…….Or if the slave-lady is just a property not being a Muslim? (The way the scholar (as per the Schine post) has justified it, I can only feel pity for the slave-lady.)
*////* The above verse has always attracted me. In our usual arguments we often say….’if you are an idiot, you will not understand me’. Or ‘if you are an intelligent person, you will definitely understand me’. Nice quote!
SuperMe Off course there are some topics in Hindu Puranas confirming that a wife must die at the pyre of her dead husband, or Hindu wives must fast for their husbands…………Not only this, there are a lot of discriminatory texts against women……..
I am a born Hindu and totally disregard these discriminatory texts. I damn care if it is written in some religious books…….I still remain a Hindu, no threat, no violence I have to face for disregarding the illogical verses of our religious books.
My religion has not created a fear conscious in my mind.
But I cannot say the same for all Hindus, though all Hindus today oppose the Sati laws (a very few exceptions, incidents, off course, still take place).