Author: Aburian Azizi
Feminism (Part 11)
The heritage of women from the perspective of ancient religions
One of the objections of feminists in Islam is that they say: Islam has oppressed women in the matter of “inheritance” and has not given her the right to do so. Before answering their objection, we first want to take a look at other religions and nations to see if they have been able to give women the right to inherit as a woman deserves.
No eastern or western law has been able to give the right of a woman as given to her by Islam and raise her dignity in the way that Islam has raised her value and dignity in accordance with her personality and preserving her dignity and physical structure. Only someone who does not have proper knowledge of Islam and its laws can deny this. They Do Not know the result of his opposition, what bad consequences it will bring. These kinds of people are not benefactors and friends of women and are basically enemies of women and humanity and they want to trap women in the swamp of corruption by making falsehood look good.
A person with vision and tact will not find a way in front of him, unless he realizes this truth and admits that Islam has given all dignity and status to “women”. While they did not have any honor and position before Islam.
The “Judaism” system was famous for depriving women of inheritance, and it did not matter if this “woman” was a mother, sister, daughter, or anything else, she inherited only if there were no men. For example: a girl would get an inheritance if she were the only child in the house.
In “Chapter twenty-seventh of Sefar Adad” it is stated: The daughters of Salafhad bin Hafez stood before Moses, Azar the priest and the chiefs of the tribe, while the whole congregation was gathered in front of the gate of the congregation tent and these girls protested: Our father is in the desert. He died without having any son and we girls left after him, and our father’s name has been removed from this family because he has no son. Our request from you is to separate our father’s share like his brothers’ share and give it to us, and do not deprive our father of his inheritance because he does not have a son. Hazrat Musa confirmed and presented this claim of Salafahad’s daughters to the court of God, and Allah Almighty said to Hazrat Musa (peace be upon him) that Salafahad’s daughters are right, so give them a quota just like Salafahad’s brothers, and their father’s quota will reach them, and Hazrat Musa announced : Any man who dies without a son should give his property to his daughters; But a woman does not inherit anything from her husband.
The women of the Roman society were equal to men in the issue of inheritance and it did not matter what rank and position they were in, and at the same time, a married woman did not receive any inheritance from her deceased husband; Because in their law, marital relationship was not considered as a proof of inheritance at all, and this law was made so that inheritance would not be transferred from one house to another, and inheritance among them meant that the wealth obtained in one family remain and do not disintegrate.
If a woman died, the inheritance she inherited from her father would be transferred to her brothers, and the children of this woman would not receive any inheritance from her.
The legacy of advanced nations and old nations, namely Turonian, Chaldeans, Syrians, Phoenicians, Syrians, Assyrians, Greeks, and others who lived in those regions after the storm and before the birth of Christ, peace be upon him, was as follows: The eldest son was placed in the place of his father. It means that all the authority and capital of the family fell into his hands, and if the eldest person in the house was not a boy, then it was the girls first; In this case, the son of a son who was older than the rest of the sons would be placed in the place of the father, and then other brothers would be placed in the next ranks, and in the next ranks would be the uncles, and this would continue until it included the sons-in-law and the rest of the tribe, and the distinction of the inheritance system among That was why women and children were deprived of inheritance.
