WHO IS GOING TO PAY THE BILL FOR THE “PROMISE IN OVERDRAFT?: A REJOINDER

Mr. Jochen Katz, one of the critics of Islam published an article titled: Who is going to pay the bill for the “promise in overdraft?” in http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Contr/i001.html web-site. He started his, pages 1-2 with the quotation of the three most important verses on Islamic law of inheritance. In his preliminary remarks he confessed that the provisions look rather difficult and complex to him hence his choice of an easy hypothesis. Looking at the article as a whole it is manifestly clear that the intention of the writer is to portray that there are some internal contradictions in the provision of the verses on inheritance in such a way that the shares provided therein when added together in some instances are more than 100% while in ~ some dre less than 100% and above all he tries to question whether they are genuinely divine revelation. In his effort to send across his message he tries to raise some issues which at best we consider either mischievous or ill motivated or purely misconceived. Going through the piece we are able to distilled twenty-eight issues that need response. The essence of this rejoinder is to go over the issues raised by Mr. Katz and respond to them in accordance with the correct legal position of Islamic law on inheritance and also to attempt to address the “misconception” of Mr. Katz on the subject. For the benefit of those that might not have had the opportunity of going through Mr. Katz paper we find it important and necessary to virtually reproduce the whole paper and comment through it by break it into issues 1M tune with the necessity of our comments. Our approach therefore 1S fo present the issues as raised by Mr. Katz and then follow each of them wit our response seriatim in the twenty-eight orders they are raised.