The First Woman / Eve
|
"When
the woman (Eve) saw that the fruit of
the tree was good for food and
pleasing to the eye, and also
desirable for gaining wisdom, she took
some and ate it. She also gave some to
her husband (Adam), who was with her,
and he ate it...Then the man (Adam)
and his wife heard the sound of the
Lord God as he was walking in the
garden in the cool of the day, and
they hid from the Lord God among the
trees of the garden. But the Lord God
called to the man, "Where are
you?" He (Adam) answered, "I
heard you in the garden, and I was
afraid because I was naked; so I
hid." And he (God) said,
"Who told you that you were
naked? Have you eaten from the tree
that I commanded you not to eat
from?" The man said, "The
woman (Eve) you put here with me-she
gave me some fruit from the tree, and
I ate it." Then the Lord God said
to the woman, "What is this you
have done?" The woman said,
"The serpent deceived me, and I
ate." To the woman he (God) said,
"I will greatly increase your
pains in childbearing; with pain you
will give birth to children. Your
desire will be for your husband, and
he will rule over you." To Adam
he (God) said, "Because you
listen to your wife and ate from the
tree about which I commanded you, 'You
must not eat of it,' "Cursed is
the ground because of you; through
painful toil you will eat of it all
the days of your life."
Genesis
3:6-17
|
(God
said):"O Adam! You and your wife
dwell in the Garden, and enjoy (its
good things) as you wish: but do not
approach this tree, or you run into
harm and transgression."
"Then began Satan to whisper
suggestions to them (Adam and Eve),
bringing openly before their minds all
their shame that was hidden from them
(before): he (Satan) said: "Your
Lord only forbade you this tree, lest
you should become angels or such
beings as live for ever."
"And he (Satan) swore to them
both, that he was their sincere
adviser." "So by deceit he
brought about their (Adam and Eve)
fall: when they tasted of the tree,
their shame became manifest to them,
and they began to sew together the
leaves of the Garden over their
bodies. And their Lord called to them:
"Did I not forbid you that tree,
and tell you that Satan was an avowed
enemy to you?" "They said:
"Our Lord! We have wronged our
own souls: if You do not forgive us
and do not bestow upon us Your Mercy,
we shall certainly be lost"
Quran
7:19-23
|
Female Gender vs. Male Gender
"...if a
woman have conceived seed, and born a
man child: then she shall be unclean
seven days...but if she bear a maid
child, then she shall be unclean two
weeks..."
Leviticus
12:2-5
|
"To
Allah belongs the dominion of the
heavens and the earth. He creates what
He wills. He bestows female children
to whomever He wills and bestows male
children to whomever He wills.
Quran
42:49
"He
who is involved in bringing up
daughters, and accords benevolent
treatment towards them, they will be
protection for him against
Hell-Fire."
Prophet
Mohammed
|
The Female Spiritual Essence
"I find
more bitter than death the woman who
is a snare, whose heart is a trap and
whose hands are chains. The man who
pleases God will escape her, but the
sinner she will ensnare."
"Look," says the Teacher,
"this is what I have discovered:
"Adding one thing to another to
discover the scheme of things-while I
was still searching but not finding- I
found one upright man among a
thousand, but not one upright woman
among them all."
Ecclesiastes
7:26-28
|
"And
Allah sets forth, as an example to
those who believe, the wife of
Pharaoh: behold she said: 'O my Lord!
build for me, in nearness to You, a
mansion in the Garden, and save me
from Pharaoh and his doings, and save
me from those that do wrong,"
"And Mary the daughter of Imran,
who guarded her chastity; and We
breathed into (her body) of Our
spirit; and she testified to the truth
of the words of her Lord and of His
Revelations, and was one of the devout
(servants)."
Quran
66:11-2
"Heaven is
at the feet of the mothers."
Prophet
Mohammed
|
Menses
| "When
a woman has her regular flow of blood,
the impurity of her monthly period
will last seven days, and anyone who
touches her will be unclean till
evening. anything she lies on during
her period will be unclean, and
anything she sits on will be unclean.
Whoever touches her bed must wash his
clothes and bathe with water, and he
will be unclean till evening. Whoever
touches anything she sits on must wash
his clothes and bathe with water, and
he will be unclean till evening.
Whether it is the bed or anything she
was sitting on, when anyone touches
it, he will be unclean till
evening."
Leviticus
15:19-23
|
Ali asked the
Prophet Mohammed if when a man and a
woman make love then their clothes
stick to them from the sweat of their
bodies, or if when a woman has her
period her clothes stick to her body,
are the clothes considered unclean?
The Prophet
replied: "No, the uncleanness is
only in the semen and the blood."
Prophet
Mohammed
|
Sexual Relation During Her Menses
"Do not
approach a woman to have sexual
relations during the uncleanness of
her monthly period."
Leviticus
18:19
|
"They
ask you concerning women's courses
(period). Say: They are a hurt and a
pollution: so keep away (of making
love) from women in their courses, and
do not approach them until they are
clean..."
Quran
2:222
|
A Woman's Right to Education
| "let
your women keep silence in the
churches: for it is not permitted unto
them to speak; but they are commanded
to be under obedience, as also saith
the law, and if they will learn
anything, let them ask their husbands
at home: for it is a shame for woman
to speak in the church."
1Corinthians
14:34-35
|
Seeking
knowledge is obligatory on every
Muslim man and Muslim woman.
Prophet
Mohammed
|
Right to Inheritance
| "Say
to the Israelites, 'If a man dies and
leaves no son, turn his inheritance
over to his daughter...'"
Numbers
27:8
|
"From
what is left by parents and those
nearest related there is a share for
men and a share for women, whether the
property be small or large, -a
determinate share."
Quran
4:7
|
Dressing Modesty / Head Covering
"Now
I want you to realize that the head of
every man is Christ, and the head of
the woman is man, and the head of
Christ is God. Every man who prays or
prophesies with his head covered
dishonors his head. And every woman
who prays or prophesies with her head
uncovered dishonors her head...If a
woman does not cover her head, she
should have her hair cut off; and if
it is a disgrace for a woman to have
her hair cut or shaved off, she should
cover her head"
1
Corrinthians 11:3-6
For a man ought
not to cover his head, since he is the
image and glory of God, but woman is
the glory of man, for man was not made
for woman, but woman from man, neither
was man created for woman, but woman
for man.[1
Corin. 11:7]
"I
also want women to dress modestly, with
decency and propriety, not with braided
hair or gold or pearls or expensive
clothes, but with good deeds,
appropriate for women who profess to
worship God"
1 Timothy
2:9-10
|
"O
Prophet! Tell your wives and
daughters, and the believing women,
that they should cast their outer
garments over their persons (when
abroad): that is most convenient, that
they should be known (as such) and not
molested. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving,
Most Merciful."
Quran
33:59
...they
(believing women) should not display
their beauty and ornaments except what
(must ordinarily) appear thereof; that
they should draw their veils over
their bosoms and not display their
beauty except to their husbands, their
fathers, their husbands' fathers,
their sons, their husbands' sons,
their brothers or their brothers'
sons, or their sisters' sons, or their
women...or small children who have no
sense of the shame of sex..."
Quran
24:31
|
Polygamy
| "After
he left Hebron, David took more
concubines and wives in Jerusalem, and
more sons and daughters were born to
him."
2 Samuel
5:13
"He
(Solomon) had seven hundred wives of
royal birth and three hundred
concubines..."
1 Kings
11:3
"And Lamech
took unto him two wives: the name of
the one was Adah, and the name of the
other Zillah."
Genesis
4:19
"If 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 first-born son be
hers that was hated: then it shall be,
when he maketh..."
Deuteronomy
21:15
"if he take
him another wife; her food, her
raiment, and her duty of marriage,
shall her not diminish."
Exodus
21:10
|
"If you
fear that you shall not be able to
deal justly with the orphans, marry
women of your choice, two, or three,
or four; but if you fear that you
shall not be able to deal justly (with
them), then only one...
to prevent you from doing
injustice."
Quran
4:3
|
Prohibition in Marriage
| "Do
not take your wife's sister as a rival
wife and have sexual relations with
her while your wife is living."
Leviticus
18:18
|
"Prohibited
to you (for marriage) are: -your
mothers, daughters, sisters...and two
sisters (the wife and her sister) in
wedlock at one and the same
time..."
Quran
4:23
|
Divorce
| "...Anyone
who divorces his wife and marries
another woman commits adultery against
her. And if she divorces her husband
and marries another man, she commits
adultery."
Mark
10:11-12
|
"O
Prophet! When you do divorce women,
divorce them at their prescribed
periods, and count (accurately) their
prescribed periods: and fear Allah
your Lord..."
Quran
65:1
|
The Divorcee & Widow
| "...who
marries the divorced woman commits
adultery."
Matthew
5:32
"'The woman
he (the priest) marries must be a
virgin. He must not marry a widow, a
divorced woman, or a woman defiled by
prostitution, but only a virgin from
his own people.'"
Leviticus
21:13-4
|
"If
any of you die and leave widows
behind, they shall wait concerning
themselves four months and ten days:
when they have fulfilled their term,
there is no blame on you (marrying
widows) if they dispose of themselves
in a just and reasonable
manner..."
Quran
2:234
|
The Respect of Parents
| "Then
he (Jesus) went down to Nazareth with
them(his parents) and was obedient to
them..."
Luke
2:51
"For Moses
said, 'Honor your father and your
mother,' and, 'Anyone who curses his
father or mother must be put to
death."
Mark
7:10
"Each of
you must respect his mother and
father..."
Leviticus
19:3
|
"He
(God) has made me (Jesus) kind to my
mother, and not overbearing or
miserable."
Quran
19:32
"And We
have enjoined on man (to be good) to
his parents: in travail (pains of
childbirth) upon travail his other
bore him, and in two years was his
weaning: (hear the command),
"Show gratitude to Me and to your
parents: to Me is (your final)
Goal."
Quran
31:14
|
ARE WOMEN OPPRESSED IN ISLAM ?
Islam:
Women must cover their heads as a sign of
"modesty." It also serves as
protection for the female.
Christianity:
1 CORINTHIANS 11:3-10 in the Christian bible
orders women to cover their heads in
prayers. These verses further state that the
male doesn't have to cover his head because
"female was made from male, and the male
not from the female." It further states
that a woman covering her head is a sign of
male "authority."
Conclusion:
Islam and Christianity both tell women to
cover their heads. The main difference,
however, is that women in Islam cover their
heads for purposes of "modesty."
Christian women cover their heads as a sign of
"male authority." It is clear
that the bible gives women an inferior status,
whereas Islam doesn't.
Islam: Adam
and Eve (peace be upon them) were EQUALLY
responsible for eating from the
"forbidden tree." They both
repented and were forgiven by the
Most-Forgiving and Most-Merciful Allahu
ta'ala.
Christianity:
Eve ate from the "forbidden tree"
BEFORE Adam did. Adam ate from the tree AFTER
Eve did. The woman was deceived FIRST. Because
of EVE causing Adam to sin by eating from the
forbidden tree, the ground is
"cursed." God doesn't forgive them,
but damns them and humanity -- thanks to Eve
(the woman)! ALL females go through
"pains of childbearing" as a
punishment from God -- because of EVE'S sin.
All males have to go through pains of eating
from the ground, thanks to EVE. ALL babies are
born in SIN, thanks to EVE. All of this can be
found in GENESIS 2:4-3:24.
"Adam
was not deceived but the woman was" (1
TIMOTHY 2:11-14)
"Woman
will be ruled over by the male" (GENESIS
3:16)
In
other words, thanks to a FEMALE, we are
damned! It is clear that in Christianity, the
very first woman
is blamed for
wrongdoing, but not the very first male.
Islam:
Quran orders us that we should not "bury
daughters alive."
Christianity:
-"The birth of a daughter is a loss"
(ECCLESIASTICUS 22:3, Catholic Bible)
- Ritual impurity of a mother is TWICE as long
if a female is born and not a male. (LEVITICUS
12:2-5)
Is
it not clear that Islam again gives a higher
status to females? What Islam came to radicate
-- the bad treatment of females -- still
continues in today's Protestant and Catholic
scriptures.
ISLAM:
Women can talk in the mosque. (place of
worship)
CHRISTIANITY:
"It is a shame for women to talk in the
church." (1 CORINTHIANS 14:34)
If
females cannot talk, then how are they
supposed to learn? Again, it is obvious that
Islam gives the female a higher status than
the bible does.
Muslim
women are objects of derision and mockery
especially in the Western world. Women in
Islam are portrayed to be
"oppressed" and "inferior"
by many Westerners. However, most of the
Westerners I've heard this from are usually
Christian. It is amazing how many verses the
Christian bible has which supports Islamic
treatment of women, among other issues. Here
is a small list I would like to share with all
of you. You will also know that the christian
bible degrades the female sex!
At
a time when the rest of the world, from Greece
and Rome to India and China, considered women
as no better than children or even slaves,
with no rights whatsoever, Islam acknowledged
women's equality with men in a great many
respects. The Quran states:
"And
among His signs is this: that He created mates
for you form yourselves that you may find
rest, peace of mind in them, and He ordained
between you love and mercy. Lo, herein indeed
are signs for people who reflect."
[30:21]
Prophet
Muhammad said:
"The
most perfect in faith amongst believers is he
who is best in manners and kindest to his
wife." [Abu Dawud]
Muslims
believe that Adam and Eve were created from
the same soul. Both were equally guilty of
their sin and fall from grace, and both were
forgiven by Allah. Many women in Islam have
had high status; consider the fact that the
first person to convert to Islam was Khadijah,
the wife of Muhammad, whom he both loved and
respected. His favorite wife after Khadijah's
death, Aeisha, became renowned as a scholar
and one of the greatest sources of Hadith
literature. Many of the female Companions
accomplished great deeds and achieved fame,
and throughout Islamic history there have been
famous and influential scholars, jurists and
mystics.
With
regard to education, both women and men have
the same rights and obligations. This is clear
in Prophet Muhammad's saying:
"Seeking
knowledge is mandatory for every
believer." [Ibn Majah]
This
implies men and women.
A woman is to be treated
as God has endowed her, with rights, such as
to be treated as an individual, with the right
to own and dispose of her own property and
earnings, enter into contracts, even after
marriage. She has the right to be educated and
to work outside the home if she so chooses.
She has the right to inherit from her father,
mother, and husband. A very interesting point
to note is that in Islam, unlike any other
religion, a woman can be an imam, a leader of
communal prayer, for a group of women.
A
Muslim woman also has obligations. All the
laws and regulations pertaining to prayer,
fasting, charity, pilgrimage, doing good
deeds, etc., apply to women, albeit with minor
differences having mainly to do with female
physiology.
Before
marriage, a woman has the right to choose her
husband. Islamic law is very strict regarding
the necessity of having the woman's consent
for marriage. A marriage dowry (money)
is given by the groom to the bride for her own
personal use. She keeps her own family name,
rather than taking her husband's. As a wife, a
woman has the right to be supported by her
husband even if she is already rich. She also
has the right to seek divorce and custody of
young children. She does not return the dowry,
except in a few unusual situations.
Despite
the fact that in many places and times Muslim
communities have not always adhered to all or
even many of the foregoing in practice, the
ideal has been there for 1400 years, while
virtually all other major civilizations did
not begin to address these issues or change
their negative attitudes until the 19th and
20th centuries, and there are still many
contemporary civilizations which have yet to
do so.
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HOLY WARS
& EDICTS OF WARFARE IN BIBLE
When
you approach a city to fight against it, you
shall offer it terms of
peace. And it shall come about, if it agrees to make peace
with you and opens to you, then it shall be that
all the
people who are found in it shall become your
forced labour and
shall serve you. However, if it does not make
peace with you, but
makes war against you, then you shall besiege
it. When the
Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall
strike all
the men in it with the edge of the sword. Only
the women and the
children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its
spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use
the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your
God has given
you. ...Deut. 20:10-14
When
you go out to battle against your enemies, and
the Lord your God delivers them into your hands, and you take them
away captive, and see among the captives a
beautiful woman, and have a
desire for her and would take her as a wife for
yourself, then you shall bring her home to your house, and she
shall shave
her head and trim her nails. ...Deut. 21:10-12
Now therefore
kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has
known man intimately, but all the girls who have not known
man intimately, spare for yourselves.
...Numbers 31:17-18
And when the
Lord your God shall deliver them before you, and you shall
defeat them, then you shall
utterly destroy them. You shall make no
covenant with them and show no favour to them. ...Deut. 7:2
And all the
spoil of these cities and the cattle, the sons
of Israel took
as their plunder; but they struck every man with
the edge of
the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left no one
who breathed. Joshua 11:14
If your
brother, your mother's son, or your son or
daughter, or the wife
you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice
you secretly, saying, `Let us go and serve other gods' ...you
shall not yield to him or listen to him; and
your eye
shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or
conceal him.
But you shall
surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him
to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the
people.
Deut. 13:6-9
If you hear in
one of your cities which the Lord your God is
giving you to
live in anyone saying that... 'Let us go and serve other
gods' then you shall investigate...and if it is true...you
shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city
with the edge
of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and
its cattle with the edge of the sword.
Deut. 13:12-15
Now go and
strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that he
has, and do not
spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and
infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. 1
Sam. 5:3
(KJV) Ps 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall
take them away as with a whirlwind, both
living, and in {his} wrath.
(KJV) Ps 58:10 The
righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the
vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood
of the wicked.
(KJV) Ps 68:23 That thy
foot may be dipped in the blood of
{thine} enemies, {and} the tongue of thy dogs
in the same.
OBSCENE,
LASCIVIOUS & REPUGNANT TEXTS
...In
your midst (the rulers of Israel) have committed
acts of lewdness. `In
you they have uncovered their father's nakedness(*);
in you they have humbled her who was unclean
in her menstrual impurity. And one has committed
abomination with his neighbour's wife(**), and
another in you humbled his
sister(***), his father's daughter'. Ezekiel
22:9/11
Note: For detailed narrations
of the above recorded acts see
(*) Gen. 9:22; (**) 2 Sam. 11:2/5ff and
12:10/12;
(***) 2 Sam. 13:10/17.
And
Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your
father's concubines,
whom he has left to keep the house; then all Israel will
hear that you have made yourself odious to your father (King
David)." So they pitched a tent for Absalom
on the roof, and
Absalom went in to his father's concubines in
the sight of
all Israel. .... 2 Sam. 16:21/22
But the
men would not listen to him, so the man seized
his concubine and
brought her out to them. And they raped her
and abused her all night until morning, then let
her go at the approach of
dawn. .... Judges 19:25
Note:
In the morning, the concubine was found dead by
her master at the doorway of his
house. ...He (the master) took a
knife and laid hold of his concubine and cut her in twelve pieces,
limb by limb, and sent her
throughout the territory of
Israel. .... Judges 19:29
And it came about while
Israel was dwelling in that land, that Ruben went and lay with Bilhah
his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. .... Gen.
35:22
And when Shechem the son of
Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw
her (Jacob's daughter), he took her and lay with
her by force. ... Gen. 34:2
Then Judah said to Onan,
"Go in to your brother's wife, and perform your duty as a
brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your
brother." And Onan knew that the offspring
would not be his; so it came about that when he
went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his
seed on the ground, in order not to give
offspring to his brother. .... Gen. 38:8/9
When Judah saw her (Tamar),
he thought she was a harlot, for she had covered
her face. So he turned aside to her by the road, and said, "Here
now,
let me come in to you"; for he did
not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And
she (who knew her father-in-law) said,
"What will you give me, that you may come
in to me?" He said, therefore, "I will
send you a kid from the
flock." ....So he gave to her, and went in
to her, and she conceived by him."
Note:
Out of this relationship were born twins, Perez
and Zerah. From
Perez a direct genealogical line continued to David,
Solomon and finally to Joseph - the husband of
Mary, the
mother of Jesus Christ. (See Matthew
Ch.1).
"Come, let us make our
father (Lot) drink wine, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve
our family through our father." So they made their father drink
wine that night, and the first-born went in and lay with
her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when
she arose. And it came about on the morrow, that
the first-born said to the younger,
"Behold, I lay last night with my father;
let us make him drink wine tonight also; then
you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve
our family through our father." So they
made their father drink wine that night also,
and the younger arose and lay with him; and he
did not know when she lay down or when she
arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot were with
child by their father. Gen. 19:32/36
Please read Ezekiel chapter
23 and discover the obscene and indecent language in which
God(!) compares the idolatries of Jerusalem and Samaria with the
unabashed and shameless acts of harlotries. In this chapter, the
language spoken used by God(!), the quoted passages, are so
graphic that they are unfit for reading by the youngsters. Here is an
example; "And she lusted after their
paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of
donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of
horses." ...Ez. 23:20.
CHECK
OUT THE LINK TO SEE HOW ISLAM TREATS WOMEN.
AND THAN COMPARE FOR YOURSELF WHICH BOOK, THE
BIBLE OR THE QURAN, WHICH ONE TREATS WOMEN
WITH RESPECT AND IMPORTANCE!
