4: Women

Injustice
Intolerance
Cruelty and Violence
Women
Family Values
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Women in Surah 4

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

  2. Males are to inherit twice that of females. 4:11

  3. Lewd women are to be confined to their houses until death. 4:15

  4. You may not forcibly inherit women, unless they flagrantly lewd. 4:19

  5. Instructions for exchanging wives 4:20

  6. "All married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess."
    You can't have sex with married women, unless they are slaves obtained in war (with whom you may rape or do whatever you like). 4:24

  7. Men are in charge of women, because Allah made men to be better than women. Refuse to have sex with women from whom you fear rebellion, and scourge them. 4:34

  8. Don't pray if you are drunk, dirty, or have touched a woman lately. 4:43

  9. Women are feeble and are unable to devise a plan. 4:98

  10. They invoke in his (Allah's) stead only females. 4:117

  11. A man cannot treat his wives fairly. 4:129

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