Ar-Risalah Kitabul Aqdiyah Mufti Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi

LESSONS FROM AR-RISALAH OF ABDULLAH B. ABI ZAYD AL-QAIRAWANY What will it cost us to sponsor our young women to become gynecologists? We cannot tolerate a culture where our women are exposed to male doctors. It is our collective responsibility to produce female gynecologists in large numbers. In the past, our scholars could not even conceive of a situation where a man would deliver a woman's child; they viewed it strictly as a woman's domain. This is precisely why a woman's sole testimony is accepted in court on such matters—because it was considered exclusively feminine. Today, however, our women are exposed to male doctors during childbirth and when suffering from private illnesses. We have failed as a community to produce enough female doctors and gynecologists, yet we willingly spend billions on trivialities and lavish weddings. We have failed our people. Mufti Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Gumi