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2. Man's Preference to Woman in Inheritance



The Islamic Sharia has decided that man should enjoy the double of woman's share of heritage. Some simple-minded people misthink that such a law is considered as mortification and wronging for woman. In fact, Islam has never degraded or wronged woman. Because of man's big responsibilities, Islam has decided for him double share of heritage so that fairness and equity can be achieved.


Unlike woman, man is responsible for securing his family members' food, clothing, house, education, and medical treatment. He is, unlike woman too, responsible for protecting Islam by all possible means. Finally, man is responsible for many social obligations that require spending. In the light of this comparison, it is fair to decide for man a double share of heritage. Woman, however, is luckier than man is, since she is not responsible for many family and social obligations. Hence, Islam has decided:


"Let the male inherit twice as much as the female. (4:11)"


Finally, woman's possessive and vested rights are completely saved for her alone, and man has no right to do anything to such properties before her satisfaction and permission are obtained. Woman, in this field, is equal to man.

3. Testimony



The Islamic Sharia has considered two women's testimony as one man's so as to protect woman's testimony from falsity and to guard the litigants' rights from wronging and waste.


As she is prevailed by agitated emotions, sensitivity, and passivity towards a definite party, woman deviates from justice and neglects the right and the obligation of providing exact testimony. Evading so, Islam has decided the joining of two women in testimony so that one may remind the other and prevent her from false testifying:


"Let two men or one man and two women whom you choose, bear witness so that if one of them makes a


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