# The verse on men having a degree over women, read in its passage

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/s/2/
- Date: 2016-03-15 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan & Mufti Abu Layth - A Discussion on Contemporary Issues (5:25–6:47)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbyA7rqfyRU&t=325s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/

**Topics:** Tafsir and verse study; Women in Islam; Guest conversations

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The verse about a degree over women is read by one speaker as concerning women in their waiting period, not a general ranking of men above women.

## Longer summary

One speaker, apparently the guest [?], recounts a discussion with a scholar about the reading that men have a degree over women. He argues the verse does not support it: the phrase comes as the eleventh pronoun in a passage about women during their waiting period and the disadvantage they are at, so pulling from it a general claim that men rank above women ignores the structure of the text. He asks how this reading became the common one and says the textual structure is clear. The transcript has a short gap after this paragraph; the exchange continues in the next segment.

## Sources and names cited

- Nouman Ali Khan
- Quran 2:228 (men have a degree over them) [?] (reference uncertain; possibly https://quran.com/2/228)

## Transcript (machine tier, 5:25–6:47)

[5:15] it and so so this is the I had an interesting argument with a scholar that shall okay an entire discussion about how men have a degree over women actually that doesn't hold the AY begins

[5:56] okay 11th pronoun it's the 11th time they for women is used starting with what noun not the entire the entire Ayah is a discussion of how women in their During the period are at a degree of disadvantage and here's what that looks like and to take that and then pull from it the women have a degree less than women men like I'm at a l how did this

[6:34] become all the other on how that and then on top of that there's is normal structure that's purely textual you know but then there's like 30 pages of well because they have menes and because they're their tongue and

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment zbyA7rqfyRU/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zbya7rqfyru/s/2/

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