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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

having a different anatomy that makes a person more intelligent,
but their fear of God, love of God, depth of faith and conscience.

God always inspires the truth in the conscience of every human
being, man or woman. Therefore, what makes people intelligent and
devout is not whether they are men or women, but whether they
abide by what is revealed to their consciences and, as revealed in this
verse, "You who believe! If you fear God, He will give you discrim-
ination [between right and wrong]..." (Qur'an, 8:29) their fear of

God: That is the sole measure of intelligence in the Qur'an. There-
fore, in the same way that a man is not superior solely for being a
man, a woman is not deficient in intelligence and faith simply
because she is a woman. However, as we have said many times, the

religion of the fanatics is totally different to the Qur'an and is full of
slanders.
The way that they slander God Himself with the fabricated

hadiths in question shows the extremes to which the fanatics will go.
Nothing along the lines of "... I make her stupid, and must make her
suffer pregnancy and birth with difficulty" appears in the Qur'an, so
what is the status of these words alleged to be the words of God?

Where is this revelation, alleged to have come from God, if it does
not appear in the Qur'an? The greatest danger of the religion of the
fanatics is that they speak lies in the name of God and are therefore
capable of such slander.

Pregnancy is regarded as a sacred state in the Qur'an, for which
reason mothers are also regarded as sacred in it. Our Lord's verses
on the subject read:

We have instructed man concerning his parents. Bearing him
caused his mother great debility and the period of his weaning
was two years: "Give thanks to Me and to your parents. I am your
final destination." (Qur'an, 31:14)

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