🧕 Women Are Deficient in Intelligence and Religion: Muhammad’s Misogyny in His Own Words
📜 The Hadith Muslims Can’t Explain Away
“I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you (women).”
— Sahih Bukhari 304
This statement isn’t hidden in a fringe book — it’s from Sahih Bukhari, Islam’s most authoritative hadith collection.
And it’s not a paraphrase. These are Muhammad’s own words, spoken during a public address to women.
🧠 What Did Muhammad Mean?
He goes on to explain:
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Deficient in intelligence: Because a woman’s testimony is worth half a man’s in Islamic law (Qur’an 2:282).
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Deficient in religion: Because women cannot pray or fast during menstruation — something beyond their control.
Let that sink in:
Muhammad equates a woman’s biological design with religious inferiority and legal mental deficiency.
❗ What This Reveals About Muhammad’s Character
1. Institutional Misogyny
This isn’t a one-off insult — it forms the basis of Islamic law:
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Inheritance: Women get half the share of men (Qur’an 4:11).
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Testimony: A woman’s witness counts as half a man’s (Qur’an 2:282).
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Marriage/Divorce: Men can marry multiple wives, but women cannot marry multiple husbands. Men can divorce with a word, women must beg courts.
This is not divine equality. This is systemic gender discrimination, rooted in the worldview of a 7th-century Arabian warlord.
2. Religious Punishment for Biology
Calling women “deficient in religion” because they menstruate is theological nonsense.
God made them that way. To treat that design as a spiritual handicap is to blame the Creator or devalue His creation.
Would a just and holy God shame women for obeying His own biological laws?
3. A Prophet With Contempt for Women
Let’s remember:
This is the same Muhammad who:
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Said women are the majority of hell’s inhabitants (Sahih Bukhari 1052),
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Allowed marrying prepubescent girls (Qur’an 65:4),
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Said women are a source of evil omens (Abu Dawud 3920),
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Beat his wives when they annoyed him (Sahih Muslim 1472).
Is this the example of a just and compassionate prophet?
✝️ The Contrast: Jesus and Women
Jesus, in contrast:
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Spoke directly to women in public (against cultural norms),
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Praised their faith (Luke 7:50),
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Defended their dignity (John 8:1–11),
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Revealed His resurrection first to a woman (John 20:16–18),
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Never belittled their intelligence or piety.
In the Gospels, women are equal in value, dignity, and purpose.
In the Hadith, they are half-intelligent, half-religious, and mostly in hell.
🚨 Final Verdict: Misogyny, Not Revelation
When Muhammad said women are “deficient in intelligence and religion,” he wasn’t revealing divine truth —
He was exposing his own bias, shaped by pagan tribal culture, male dominance, and power politics.
A true prophet uplifts the marginalized.
Muhammad entrenched inequality — and called it God’s will.
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