{"id":588,"date":"2015-02-26T15:45:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azmi.co\/cust\/ngba-wp\/?page_id=588"},"modified":"2018-10-01T02:08:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T02:08:24","slug":"womans-inheritance-half-of-mans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=588","title":{"rendered":"WOMAN-INHERITANCE half of man&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In the name of All\u0101h,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">the Beneficent, the Merciful.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">DEDICATED TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Lord of the worlds<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">AND TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">Mohammad\u2013who brought the world<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">to our feet and eternity to our arms.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">WOMAN\u2019S INHERITANCE HALF OF WHAT A MAN RECEIVES<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">That a woman\u2019s inheritance is half that of a man\u2019s\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:11, 177).<br \/>\n<\/span>Arguably, a man\u2019s wealth is his to dispose of however he pleases; <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(and so it is in non-Muslim societies)<\/span>. A friend or relative may also make suggestions to the man as to the manner in which to divide his wealth.<br \/>\nTo crab at and condemn Allah for instructing Muslim how to distribute his wealth is crass arrogance and audacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the Islamic apportioning of wealth between son and daughter <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013giving the son twice as much as the daughter\u2013<\/span> is not without merit.<br \/>\nThis is so because man has the burden of being the maintainer of the family\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:34) even though his wife may have earnings and may have wealth and even greater wealth than he has.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In cases where both husband and wife work. W<span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">hereas a wife can at any stage, and for any reason, quit her job and decides to stay home and be maintained by her husband, a husband cannot quit his job and intend for his wife to maintain him.\u00a0The burden of support lies on the husband.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">(Even in secular society wives, generally, seem to enjoy this benefit of voluntary employment). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Since every ship requires a captain, husbands, by virtue of them being the maintainers of their wives, are given a degree of superiority (in home affairs) over the wives\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:228). <span style=\"color: purple;\">(Though he has this degree of superiority, the wise husband would follow his wife\u2019s judgment if it is superior to his).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whereas daughters of Islam has right to inheritance whether her father has sons or not. Christian women have NO right to inheritance if a man has son(s):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter\u201d\u2013(Numbers 27:8. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Note, the wife\/widow inherits nothing.\u00a0 And the daughter only inherits when no son exists).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his\u201d \u2013(Deuteronomy 2115-17. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Note, there is no mention of daughter(s) and, unlike Islam, one son receives a \u201cdouble portion\u201d of what the other receives).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of All\u0101h, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad. DEDICATED TO All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High, Lord of the worlds AND TO Mohammad\u2013who brought the world to our feet and eternity to our arms. * WOMAN\u2019S INHERITANCE HALF OF WHAT A MAN RECEIVES That a woman\u2019s inheritance is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-588","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3814,"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588\/revisions\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}