According to Sunni law and 4:11 of the Qu'ran the males (sons/brothers/grandfather) share equivalent to double of daughters. A mother who has no sons looses out to her brother-in-laws, father-in-law, or sons of her brother-in-laws. This has real consequences in everyday life. There are too many times when a man having only daughters has suddenly died and his brothers have filed for a Succession Certificate and thereafter appointment of the Nazir to dispose off the property. The poor widowed woman with young daughter has been judicially thrown out of her home that was built by a hard working husband. Our mostly feudal parliamentarians will never allow for this law to be amended. The are no laws for Trust Funds, or "Living Wills". Only option is that property has been transferred within the man's life time. Hence making it a curse for a mother who has no sons - she and her daughters are at the mercy of the goodwill of her brother-in-laws. What often happens is that a man with only daughters is coerced to marry them off to the sons of his brothers. Too many first wives of feudals are first cousins.
Therefore women are not equal to men in Islam when they get deprieved of their rightful inheritance, what was due from the father.
Despite being a man I find it totally unethical - its nothing less than plunder of what you've not earned yourself and should've rightfully gone to orphaned nieces.
There's another cruelty to women which is "Mariage to the Qu'ran". Its all too prevalent in Interior Balochistan and Sindh. Women are forced to "Marry" the Qu'ran and spend the rest of their lives celebate, ensuring they have no children thus are deprived of their inheritance which is usually agricultural land. No one talks about it in our media. No will ever talk about it.
According to Sunni law and 4:11 of the Qu'ran the males (sons/brothers/grandfather) share equivalent to double of daughters. A mother who has no sons looses out to her brother-in-laws, father-in-law, or sons of her brother-in-laws. This has real consequences in everyday life. There are too many times when a man having only daughters has suddenly died and his brothers have filed for a Succession Certificate and thereafter appointment of the Nazir to dispose off the property. The poor widowed woman with young daughter has been judicially thrown out of her home that was built by a hard working husband. Our mostly feudal parliamentarians will never allow for this law to be amended. The are no laws for Trust Funds, or "Living Wills". Only option is that property has been transferred within the man's life time.
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Therefore women are not equal to men in Islam when they get deprieved of their rightful inheritance, what was due from the father.
Despite being a man I find it totally unethical - its nothing less than plunder of what you've not earned yourself and should've rightfully gone to orphaned nieces.
There's another cruelty to women which is "Mariage to the Qu'ran". Its all too prevalent in Interior Balochistan and Sindh. Women are forced to "Marry" the Qu'ran and spend the rest of their lives celebate, ensuring they have no children thus are deprived of their inheritance which is usually agricultural land. No one talks about it in our media. No will ever talk about it.