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0:00[Music]
0:17hi everyone welcome back to unveiling
0:19Islam I'm David wood here with brother
0:21Rasheed and brother Rasheed you have of
0:25course left Islam but there's one thing
0:28you cannot deny
0:31that is Islam's amazing impact on women
0:36the Quran gives women um unprecedented
0:40rights and I've heard I've heard that
0:43Muhammad was practically the greatest
0:46feminist who ever lived yeah and so
0:49obviously if we look at the Quran we're
0:52going to find out that uh the status of
0:56women was massively elevated thanks to
0:58this book that right it's not right not
1:02oh my goodness but I hear it all the
1:04time yes and they say also like it has a
1:07chapter about women it's got a chapter
1:09about women it has um Mary there it's
1:12got an entire chapter it actually names
1:15one woman in the entire kran and that's
1:17a problem actually why only one woman
1:20that is yeah that is true because when
1:22it talks about there's no woman
1:24mentioned except Mary Mary was already
1:28famous in the whole world back then
1:30name any woman he named many men he
1:33named Abu laab he named Zade he named
1:35lman he named karun he named uh all
1:39these guys but not a single
1:42woman and he talks about the wife of
1:45pharaoh the wife of aliz the wife of lot
1:48the wife of Noah the wife of you know
1:52until today in the Arab
1:55world we don't talk about our wives
1:58names
2:00we just we just say my
2:04home my and they say about woman
2:08Ahmed muhamad must the mother of always
2:13we Define her by a
2:16male that's because of this
2:19culture and and when you think about it
2:22why because it's not holy to the level
2:26that we will put a name of a woman in
2:28the Quran
2:30but at the very least the Quran is going
2:32to be filled with amazing teachings that
2:34elevate the status of of women right no
2:38actually the the the chapter we
2:40mentioned the n m
2:43wom it's the most chapter that is
2:46against women in the Quran so the one
2:48about women is the worst one for women
2:50yes that's yes and when Muslims tell me
2:52this they say actually the the Quran
2:54honored women because it consecrated a
2:57whole chapter for women I say that's not
3:00the reason actually just whatever
3:03chapter discusses a topic they name it
3:05after that topic for example the cow so
3:08are we going to tell Hindus that the
3:11Hindus we honor the cow for you I I I
3:15bet I bet there are Muslims in India who
3:17use that probably use that and we have
3:19actually a chapter about the
3:20elephant and a chapter about
3:24ants so it's honoring chapter about
3:27spider is it honoring Spider-Man so all
3:30these all these things are just because
3:34the topic there is about that subject
3:37that's the only reason so what do we
3:39find out about women in the chapter
3:41about women uh we have many verses which
3:44one you want to start
3:46with men are in charge of women 434 and
3:51be I have to to make a warning here what
3:55I read in Arabic is not what I read in
3:58English there is always they're trying
4:01to modify the translation
4:03mhm men are in charge of women by right
4:08of what Allah has given one over the
4:11other and what they spend for
4:13maintenance from their wealth so
4:16righteous women are devoutly
4:19obedient guarding in the husband's
4:21absence what Allah would have them guard
4:24but those wives from whom you fear
4:27arrogance first advise them then if they
4:30persist forsake them in bed then finally
4:34strike them and they put lightly in the
4:37Arabic version there is no lightly there
4:39is no gently there is nothing just
4:41strike them so they're they're they're
4:43adding words they're adding lightly yes
4:47for to fool you guys for people who are
4:49reading the translations yes it's like
4:52because it's so embarrassing so
4:55embarrassing in front of English
4:57speakers that they had to add something
5:00to make it acceptable somehow but anyway
5:05nobody will accept you beat a woman
5:08lightly or not you will go to jail for
5:11that so that that means the Quran is
5:14just encouraging men to be women and
5:18that's not accepted and so it gives
5:20these if you if you have a wife who's uh
5:23you know
5:25you're it's interesting because some of
5:27them will say you fear Rebellion like
5:29you simply fear that she might I mean I
5:31am the judge here it's like male have to
5:34make the Judgment I can I can wake up in
5:36a bad mood in the morning I'll be like
5:39come here I'm fearing arrogance from you
5:42here you go boom and Muhammad said in
5:44the Hadith a man will not be asked why
5:46he beat his wife and be why because it's
5:48entirely up to you whether you feel like
5:50your your wife is uh going to Rebel or
5:52be arrogant or something like this but
5:54it gives these possible solutions you
5:57can warn them you can banish them to a
5:59SE bed so you separate from them in in
6:01bed so you stay over there don't talk to
6:02me um and then if you want you can beat
6:06them into submission and you we even see
6:09in in the Hadith there there's a there's
6:11a Hadith in sah bukari about a man who
6:13beat his wife until her skin turned
6:15green yes and then Muhammad condemns the
6:17woman for being a bad wife making her
6:20husband do that to her yep so beting
6:23woman in the Islamic world now it's
6:26because the Quran allows men to to do
6:30that we have many cases statistics are
6:33are really mindblowing when you see how
6:35many male um beat their wives and every
6:39study I've seen from various
6:41organizations that study um abuse of
6:44women around the world or they study the
6:46gender gap in other words uh um uh
6:49differences in rights and Privileges and
6:51opportunities between men and women and
6:54it'll always be like 11 out of 12 or 17
6:58out of 18 of worst countries in the
7:00world are always are always Muslim
7:01countries because of things like this I
7:04mean compare this with Jesus he had
7:06disciples who are women he had um
7:10actually he he he uh honored women
7:15sometimes more than a religious people
7:18especially the lady that came and
7:20started washing his his feet and pouring
7:24um uh yeah tears and and and washing his
7:28feet many women Magdalene mared the
7:31Magdalene and that's why Christianity is
7:35different than Islam Muhammad wasn't
7:37like that and many women are mentioned
7:39in the gospel not in like the Quran
7:42none uh let's move to another one in the
7:45same Surah would you read
7:4843 uh Surah 4:3 yes um easy just four
7:52and three yeah I that's uh that's the uh
7:56uh you can marry multiple wives right
7:57yes yeah so s four 4 verse three and I'm
8:02sure we're going to want to go to make
8:03sure we get to
8:05424 but Surah
8:074 if if it's not ready I can't read it
8:10I've got it I've got it uh sah 4
8:15verse3 if you fear that you shall be
8:18able to deal justly with the orphans
8:21marry women of your choice to or three
8:24or four mhm but if you uh if you fear
8:27that you shall not be able to deal
8:28justly with them then only one or a
8:31captive that your right hands possess
8:33that will be more suitable to prevent
8:35you from doing Injustice I have a
8:37problem a big problem with this I mean a
8:40man like me should not have left Islam
8:43because it gives us more privilege than
8:45you crazy I
8:47know but I mean it's a problem because
8:51when you think of your mom when you
8:53think of your daughter when you think of
8:56your sister it will be a problem a big
8:58problem you can marry two three or four
9:03it depends on what you want it's not if
9:07if it's fair to others it's just if you
9:10want that as a
9:12male and Muhammad didn't even respect
9:15that this rule he made is from he he
9:18says from God he had more some sources
9:21say 13 11 9 and you can put it up to 50
9:25some sources 50 some let's say he just
9:28had 11
9:30mhm this is talking about four you had
9:32seven more yeah well he's the prophet so
9:34he gets special moral Privileges and
9:37that interesting in the Bible like
9:38people are held to a higher standard
9:39like the apostles and so on say they're
9:41they they're held to a higher standard
9:42yeah and Islam is just you get you get
9:44whatever yeah whatever Muhammad wants he
9:45gets we had a joke as Muslims I heard it
9:49as a Muslim they say you know what's the
9:51punishment of a Muslim when he marries
9:53four
9:54wives you don't know no four
9:57mother-in-laws oh yeah but that's not
10:00against mother-in-laws I'm just saying
10:01what we used to say in the Islamic word
10:04um marrying four wives creates a lot of
10:09problems in the Muslim World until
10:11today until today my dad didn't marry
10:15two or three or four he had one wife and
10:19many but many my uncles and my uh people
10:22I know they had more than one wife and I
10:24have seen so many problems because of
10:27that there's no fairness
10:30there is nothing about fairness among
10:33them um one more quick one before uh we
10:37have to close out uh Sora 424 also
10:41prohibited are women already married
10:44except those whom your right hands
10:47possess what's this about s
10:51424 her right hand possessed as slave
10:53girls you can have slave girls as many
10:56as you want even a thousand even 2,000
10:59even 3,000 all the cifs uh through
11:02history they had hundreds of slave
11:06guards and that's allowed by the Quran
11:08and if it was not up to the Western
11:10countries we could have been until today
11:13in Muslim countries we have slave girls
11:15actually is the West who forced Muslim
11:17countries to stop that yeah um and just
11:23uh as we're closing out here uh the the
11:25historical background of this B verse is
11:28especially horrifying this uh also
11:31prohibited are women already married so
11:33you're you're you're it goes on to say
11:35you can have your your your slave girls
11:37but it says prohibited are women already
11:40married except those whom your right
11:42hands possess this is talking about
11:44women you've captured in battle who are
11:46still married and the historical
11:48background was that uh in this battle
11:52they conquered and they captured the men
11:54and the women and Muhammad's followers
11:56were worried hey are we allowed to have
11:58sex with our C we know according to the
11:59Quran we're allowed to have sex with our
12:00captives but these women are married we
12:02caught their husbands too what are we
12:04supposed to do and that's when Allah
12:06reveals yes married women are prohibited
12:08except those your right hands possess I
12:10I'll I'll I'll feel bad if we end
12:12without mentioning two things about
12:14women in the Quran would we allow some
12:17just a little bit extra time sure the
12:19the one uh about the share of
12:24inheritance Allah commands you regarding
12:26your children the share of the male will
12:28be twice that of the female so if a
12:31Muslim dies his kids the male gets twice
12:35as the female M and that was a habit in
12:38the Arabic Peninsula before Muhammad so
12:41he just integrated it into the Quran
12:44another one is
12:46Witnesses um Surah
12:492282 call upon two of your men to
12:52witness if two men cannot be found then
12:55one man and two women of your choice
12:57will witness so the the the uh a a a
13:00female is half of a male when it comes
13:04to witness you need two men or a male
13:08with two
13:10females and that tells me how Islam
13:12looks at women and when I ask clerics
13:16why is that they say because their brain
13:19is half or less than a male that's
13:23that's basically Muhammad's uh response
13:25when it was brought up to him uh that
13:28the testimony of woman is half as
13:30valuable as a man's he said it's because
13:31of the deficiency of a woman's mind
13:34where in
13:35Christianity Mary was the first witness
13:38about the resurrection MH the biggest
13:41event in Christianity and that tells you
13:44a lot about the two religions and so uh
13:46we put putting all this together and uh
13:49there's there's much more in the Quran
13:52and uh significantly more in the Hadith
13:55as well um in the Hadith I mentioned
13:58about a woman being beaten till her skin
14:00turns green Aisha who's called the
14:02mother of the faithful in Islam Aisha
14:05said she has not seen any woman being
14:09treated worse than Muslim women so this
14:13was Aisha the mother of the faithful
14:15saying Muslim women were treated worse
14:18than Pagan women and she saw it from
14:21Muhammad herself

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