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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

testimony is favored. A woman is even regarded as innocent
on the basis of her own testimony. Relevant verses of the Qur'an
read as follows:

Those who make an accusation against

their wives and have no witnesses except
themselves, such people should testify four

times by God that they are telling the

truth and a fifth time that God's curse
will be upon them if they are lying. And

the punishment is removed from her if she

testifies four times by God that he is lying.
(Qur'an, 24:6-8)

The fact that woman is held superior to man in terms of witness
testimony is a very significant one that is not well-known. It describes
the essence of the Qur'an and its perspective toward women. The

mistaken ideas of the fanatics and the opponents of Islam are very
different, however. Let us look at the true meanings of the verses
that fanatics who regard women as worth half a man use as evidence
when it comes to women's witness testimony and inheritance rights:

John William Godward's oil
painting "Endymion," 1893

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