Page 255 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

We need to ask here, what it is about men in
these fanatical societies governed by superstitions
that cause men to view themselves as wholly superior
and adopt the perspective that women are little more
than chattel? In the view of the Qur'an, superiority lies
solely in piety, and the reward for that is to be hoped

from God. How can a man have such dominion
over a woman that she can never repay him even if
she licks the pus off of his body? Who created those rights
that can never be repaid, and why? What can bestow any

rights on him apart from this superiority of piety? God certain-
ly bestows no such privilege on him, and thus that privilege
appears nowhere in the Qur'an: So where did this claimed
superiority come from? How did "every husband" without
exception come to enjoy this lofty posi-
tion, irrespective of whether he is

devout or irreligious, a believer or
a polytheist, a sinner or a tyrant?

It is the false hadiths in question
that have bestowed this false eleva-
tion onto men and that have been

John William Godward's
oil painting "A Tryst,"
1912

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