The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #25 December 2014 | Page 8

Fikri Interpretation of Book of Numbers chapter 27. So this is an example of a legislation which is believed by the Christians and the Jews to be a Divine legislation and law. And this legislation does not make the inheritance between a man and a woman equal, so is this also considered oppression or is it enough to say just as some people do now that the Church does not obligate the applications of the Laws on the pretext that Jesus (pbuh) did not judge among the people?! But the reality is that if Jesus (pbuh) had the chance to judge, he would have judged and adjudicated by the ruling/judgement of Allah, the Glorious, the Exalted. And it has been presented in the Gospels, 17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. The New Testament The Gospel of Matthew Chapter 5. So is this legislation and Divine Law which Moses (pbuh) came with, and Jesus (pbuh) approved it, because it is within the law, is it possible to describe it as being oppressive to a woman because it does not make her and the man equal?! Then even if we accept