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Women's Rights

• 2:228 "(Women) have rights similar to those (of men) over them in kindness, and men are a degree above them."

• 2:282 "And call two witness from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not at hand, then a man and two women."

• 4:3 "Marry of the women, who seem good to you, two or three or four."

• 4:11 "To the male the equivalent of the portion of two females, and if there be women more than two, then theirs is two-thirds of the inheritance, and if there be one (only) then the half."

• 4:15 "As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify (to the truth of the allegation) then confine them to the houses until death take them."

• 40:20 "And if ye wish to exchange one wife for another...."

• 4:34 "Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them."

• 4:176 "Unto the male is the equivalent of the share of two females."

• 24:31 "And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands. ... And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment."

• 33:30 "O ye wives of the Prophet! Whosoever of you committeth manifest lewdness, the punishment for her will be doubled, and that is easy for Allah."

• 33:32-33 "O ye wives of the Prophet! Ye are not like any other women. ... Stay in your houses."

• 33:53 "When ye ask of them (the wives of the Prophet) anything, ask it of them from behind a curtain. That is purer for your hearts and for their hearts. And it is not for you to cause annoyance to the messenger of Allah, nor that ye should ever marry his wives after him. Lo! that in Allah's sight would be an enormity."

• 33:59 "O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad)."

• 65:1 "O Prophet! When ye (men) put away women...."

• 66:5 "If he [Muhammad] divorce you, will give him in your stead wives better than you, submissive (to Allah), believing, pious, penitent, devout, inclined to fasting, widows and maids."

Dwindling in Unbelief/Quran

Muslim feminists to interpret the Quran