Tarjumatul Quran - Sura' al-Baqarah [The Heifer]: 283 (2) - 287

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Concerning the testimony of 2 women against that of a single man is only in the case of financial disputes and even then Allah the Almighty mentions 2 women but not 2 testimonies.  In fact there is only one testimony.  This question of often raised by non-Muslims as an allegation in the context of the status of women.

287: This refers to earlier peoples who were entrusted with religious responsibilities but treated them with disrespect and deemed then to be a burden.  As such professional clergy from the lower ranks of society were made to carry that burden on their shoulders and a religious clergy came to be born which monopolised the knowledge of religion while they were incapable of doing full justice to it.  The process ultimately led to the creation of a religious clergy which was narrow-minded, arrogant and intolerant and few among them understood the philosophy and magnanimity of the word of God.  Such religious leadership is likened to donkeys whose backs are loaded with religious books for transportation but the donkeys understand little of what they carry:

The likeness of those who were charged to bear the Torah but would not bear it is as the likeness of an ass carrying a load of books.  Evil is the likeness of a people who reject the Signs of Allah.  For Allah guides not a people who do wrong.

('The Holy Quran'.  al-Jumuah [The Friday Congregation]: 6).

So the word اصْرًإِ [‘burden us’] should be understood in this context because any responsibility laid down by God cannot be treated as a burden from which true believers seek escape.


4 January 1995.

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Tarjumatul Quran - Sura' al-Baqarah [The Heifer]: 283 (2) - 287

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