THE AUTHENTICITY OF WOMEN’S WITNESS IN ISLAM: A STUDY IN THE LIGHT OF AL-QUR’AN

Abstract

By keeping in view the dignity, delicacy and natural shyness of womanhood, Islam designed such laws and regulations which widen the space and include women in every field of life and introduced that social structure by which women can play an active role in all institutions of Islamic civilization by remaining into the boundaries of their actual field of action which is the development of a progressive new generation for the glorious future of Islamic civilization, the important responsibility which men cannot perform due to their natural masculinity and no capricious state of mind. This is the reason that Islam prefers the man more than woman in assigning the financial responsibility which is one of the two basic institutions of human life. Apparently  In Al-Qurʿan sūrah al-Baqara: 282 the witness of one man is regarded as equal to two women which is unfortunately the most misunderstood phenomenon about the gender related verses of the holy Qurʿan and is still remains in orientalists’ writings which is actually the result of miscomprehension.