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Most business transactions were being conducted by men.

That was just the nature of that society.

Okay? And in that context, sometimes even if women were present, they weren't paying attention.

They weren't part of the deal.

So now there's a court ruling and you're bringing a woman who's saying,

yeah, I was there, I think that's what they said,

or she gets nervous.

So Allah said, women, in a sense, understood

if they don't have the background,

there should be another one to help them

in case they get confused.

Yeah.

Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, Some of our non-Muslim colleagues ask about why the Quran says that two women's testimony is equal to one man's testimony. So I'll say a few things about that.

Let's start with our Hadith tradition.

In our Hadith tradition, one of the most learned from a Hadith come from Aisha,

who is one woman, and she's testifying that she heard the Prophet say,

especially in situations where there's nobody else around, it's just her and her husband, right?

So if the Muslims thought that the testimony of a woman across the board,

there's only half that of a man, that we would have to apply that to the mother of the believers

too, and like a say all right. So that would be a problem. In our hadith tradition, there are women that were teaching scholars' Hadith also, not just

sahbiat, other women.

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