What is the meaning of the Hadith: "Treat women kindly, for woman was created from a crooked rib, and the most crooked part of the rib is its uppermost part," and what is meant by "the most crooked part of the rib is its uppermost part"?
This authentic Hadith commands husbands, fathers, brothers, and others to treat women kindly, not to oppress them, to grant them their rights, and to guide them towards good, even if they sometimes err. This is because they were created from a rib, and the most crooked part of it is its upper part, which implies that their creation inherently contains some crookedness and deficiency. This aligns with another Hadith that describes them as deficient in intellect and religion. Their intellectual deficiency is represented by the fact that the testimony of two women is equal to that of one man, and their religious deficiency is in their not praying during menstruation and postpartum bleeding. This deficiency was decreed by Allah upon them, and there is no sin in it.
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