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What is Islam's view regarding parents' unjust and humiliating treatment of their daughter, under the pretext of her weakness, and their justification of this by citing that a male receives the equivalent of the share of two females?

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The Sharia commanded justice among children and forbade showing preference to some over others. Humiliating daughters is a forbidden injustice and an evil act that contradicts the Sharia. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, warned against oppressing women, saying: "O Allah, I declare inviolable the rights of the two weak ones: the orphan and the woman." It is also narrated about a story of the Prophet with a boy and a girl, where he seated the boy on his thigh and the girl on the ground, which drew the attention of the Prophet, peace be upon him. The Sharia urged taking care of daughters and being good to them, and promised a great reward. Whoever treats two daughters well will be admitted into Paradise by them. And whoever has three daughters or two, and shelters them, provides for them, and shows them mercy, Paradise becomes obligatory for him. Therefore, belittling the status of daughters is among the matters of Jahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic era of ignorance) and contradicts the ethics of Islam.

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