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THE RELIGION OF THE IGNORANT

riage. Therefore, when a girl grows up accustomed to seeing herself in
that light from her earliest youth, she will want all these attributes to be
recompensed in material form. Therefore, money is always of prime
importance to such women. They never want to marry anyone who
can't reward them for the attributes they possess in material ways.
They imagine that they'll be "wasted," as they put it, in unions of such
types. Therefore, if the husband of an Ignorantist woman doesn't earn
enough money, this inevitably becomes the subject of conflict. She
complains that she is undervalued, by his failing to look after her prop-
erly. Why did she marry him when she could have had someone else?
Why did she ruin her life by marrying him? That is why, in the Religion
of the Ignorant, the subject of money is always a problem in marriages.
The character of women in the society of the ignorant is described
as intrigue-loving and cunning in many verses of the Qur'an. One
verse concerns the actions of the woman who had the Prophet Joseph
(as) thrown into prison because of her intrigues:
He saw the shirt torn at the back and said, "The source of this
is women's deviousness. Without a doubt your guile is very
great." (Surah Yusuf, 28)
"Feminine wiles," as they are commonly referred to, are based on
hypocrisy and deceiving others. Ignorantism, however, has estab-
lished a model that legitimizes the way that a woman gives the impres-
sion that she is naïve and innocent to soften a man's heart, or fills her
eyes with tears and starts weeping when she wants him to do some-
thing. She spreads gossip about a woman she is jealous of, seeming to
praise her while actually running her down. She adopts a cold, unin-
terested air so the others should take an interest in her and to show
how valuable she is, and gives the impression that, despite her own
wishes, she is sought after and a subject of interest. Never calling her
boyfriend on the phone or asking after his well-being, and not being

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