The Baha'i Studies Listserv On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Gilberto Simpson <gilberto.simp...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > Of course Rodwell was non-Muslim and has translation hasn't held up > well. Yusuf Ali renders the passage: > > "Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has > given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support > them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly > obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what Allah would have > them guard." > > And I've also seen the explanation that "devoutly obedient" is NOT to > the husband but obedient to God. > > How convenient. Thank God, I know Arabic and I can read the Good Book in its original language. > And again, this is really not radically different. In the Bahai faith > men are treated differently interms of economics (they have to pay > dowry to the wife, they get more money in the default inheritence) and > any soldiers in a Bahai society would have to be male (a kind of > protection). I'm not saying the rules are the same. Islam and the > Bahai faith are obviously different religions. But it is not the case > that one is egalitarian and the other is not. > > I'm glad you are implying that you read egalitarianism in Islam. That's good. But you cannot tell me that the Baha'i Faith is not egalitarian. The whole thrust of the teachings and laws of the Baha'i Faith is to promote and establish gender equality. Something that Islam has not done in its first 1000 years or so. Best regards, Iskandar > > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-537392-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
