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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ishna" data-source="post: 192979" data-attributes="member: 2709">The rules for inheritance can be understood when we consider the societal system at large - men supporting women. It makes more sense to give men more with which to support their women, and women less and they already have what their man is supporting them with. Regarding the testimony of two women in place of one man, this is in the context of legal contracts / monetary contracts and is an acknowledgement of the lower literacy level of these women, again as a result of the society. In context I personally don't see how these two points are unfair, and in fact they make sense. Idealistically, however, by entrenching them as sacred writ, it does inhibit the growth of women and the advancement of women's rights and freedom. It is also an interesting note that Muslims will argue the point about the two women testimony thing, with relation to business contracts, as compensating for their illiteracy, yet when we read the Psalms of the Old Testament (which is a Jewish scripture, predating the Quran and even Christian's New Testament) women are praised for running a home and her own land and business. Ergo, Quran is behind the Torah in this specific area.</blockquote>