III.—The Teaching of Muḥammad, as given in the Traditions,
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Hughes, Thomas Patrick
will be gathered from the following quotations:—
“I have not left any calamity more detrimental to mankind than women.”
“A bad omen is found in a woman, a house, or a horse.”
“The best women are those that ride on camels, and the virtuous women of the Quraish are those who are affectionate to young children and who are most careful of their husband’s property.”
“The world and all things in it are valuable, but more valuable than all is a virtuous woman.”
“Look to your actions and abstain from the world and from women, for verily the first sin which the children of Israel committed was on account of women.”
“God will reward the Muslim who, having beheld the beauties of a woman, shuts his eyes.”
“Do not visit the houses of men when they are absent from their homes, for the devil circulates within you like the blood in your veins. It was said, ‘O Prophet, in your veins also?’ He replied, ‘My veins also. But God has given me power over the devil and I am free from wickedness.’ ”
“Two women must not sit together, because the one may describe the other to her husband, so that you might say the husband had seen her himself.”
“Do not follow up one look at a woman with another; for verily the first look is excusable, but the next is unlawful.”