Does Islam require two women witnesses as a substitute for one man witness ?
(This is our modified version of an article that appears on www.ImanWay1.com) The opponents of Islam bring up the following verse to attack Islam: {And get two witnesses of your own men, and if there are not two men then a man and two women such as you choose for witnesses – so that if one of them errs, the other one can remind her…} [Chapter al-Baqarah, Verse 182] The issue of two women witnesses in place of one man is the topic of this article. As will become clear to the sincere and objective reader, the intellectual status of a Muslim woman is neither marred nor degraded by the commandment that if two Muslim male witnesses are not available, then one Muslim male and two Muslim females should be invited to witness. Rather, this injunction is in perfect harmony with the nature and psychology of the woman as will become evident in this article through quotations from psychologists, psychiatrists and medical research. The passage of the Quran in Chapter al-Baqarah in which Verse 282
