Equality Between Woman and Man

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Intended Meaning

Woman and man are equal in the basic entitlement to the afterlife; reward or recompense is tied to righteousness and action, not sex. Therefore, the righteous one from either of them is recompensed for his or her deed.

The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas

  • Type of argument: value-based
  • Argument movement: establishing equality in the afterlife between woman and man and linking recompense to righteousness and action.
  • Key terms: equality, woman, man, entitlement to the afterlife, righteousness.
  • Degree of centrality: primary.

It establishes the principle of equality in afterlife value between the two sexes, and shifts the center of reward from sexual identity to righteous action, thereby supporting a non-discriminatory ethical conception.

Reading Aids

Basis

  • Supporting text: “Woman and man are equal in the basic entitlement to the afterlife: the righteous one from either of them is recompensed.”

Place of the Basis in the Book

  • Book: Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence.
  • Location: in the final section of the book
  • Type of basis: near witness.
  • Marker that helps verification: the rights of woman and man
  • Reading note: this passage is suitable as support because it mentions the rights of woman and man together in one context and brings them close together in principle.

Degree of Documentation

  • Level: directly documented
  • Meaning of the level: the atom rests on an explicit witness close to the formulation of the claim.
  • Limits of reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted textually.

Function in the Book

Its function here is declarative; it establishes a result on which what follows in the course of the argument depends.

Editorial Note

This atom is suitable as a general value-based entry point before the legal atoms related to the family.

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