God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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men. This is why, if one is going to accept women’s
testimony in loan cases, there should be two of
them: so that if at any time in the future, they are
required to give evidence, one of them should be
able to compensate for the other’s poor memory.
It is good to remember here that modern research
has confirmed what the Quran said—that women’s
memory is weaker than that of men. Russian
scientists have gone into this matter in great detail,
and their conclusions have been published in book
form. A summary appeared in the New Delhi
edition of the
Times of India
on January 18, 1985,
under the caption, ‘Memorizing Ability’:
‘Men have a greater ability to memorize and
process mathematical information than
women, but females are better with words, a
Soviet scientist says, reports UPI. ‘Men
dominate mathematical subjects due to the
peculiarities of their memory,’ Dr. Vladimir
Knovalov told the Tass news agency.
The Quranic rule, far from evincing any
contradiction, proves in fact that the Quran has
come from One who has absolute knowledge of the
