Imagine how much good it would be if Christian women were living according to the Bible, which contains God's Plan for Women, listed in such places as 1 Timothy 5.

I thank you for your kind response also. May God guide all of us. Amen. The only way to understand the true Islam today is through the Promised Messiah, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (pboh). We certainly do study the Bible as well, and the Torah and Gospel were revealed by the same God that we worship. When God revealed the Holy Quran for all mankind and for all time in the future commencing with the time of the Holy Prophet(pboh), it contains comprehensive spiritual teaching which supercede earlier books, and God has promised to preserve it word-for-word. To deceive and lie to anyone is a great sin, and the Holy Prophet (pboh) laid great emphasis on telling the truth. This teaching is for everyone, as the Holy Quran and Holy Prophet(pboh) were sent by God for all mankind. When I reviewed verses of the Holy Quran which, from your point of view, appeared to teach otherwise I found otherwise that God teaches us to speak the truth. I invite you to study the Holy Quran and the life of the Holy Prophet (pboh) as the Promised Messiah has presented it, showing that the Holy Prophet honored the treaty with the Quraish. Please see his book titled _The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam_ for starters, available at our official web site at www.alislam.org.

Regarding your other observation: The Holy Quran has promised those whom God admits to heaven pure and noble spouses. So God rewards both men and women. Descriptions of heaven are metaphorical, using similarities, because we cannot fully appreciate understanding the hereafter.

The verse 66:3 is referring to a situation where the Holy Prophet(pboh) decided to refrain from honey, only for himself, because it caused some discord between him and his wife. But God revealed to him to allow himself the use of something which God has made lawful for all mankind. God knowing the future knew that if the Holy Prophet(pboh) refrained from something lawful only for his own self in regard to his personal affairs, yet his followers would be deprived of that lawful thing of God forever by following the Holy Prophet's(pboh) example and yet not understanding the actual domestic situation in his own household. So the message of verse in general is that we believers should not make something unlawful for our ownselves which God has made lawful. It is not at all giving any permission to break promises. Elsewhere in the Holy Quran God commands believers to keep their promises/oaths. But if one happens to commit the sin of breaking it, there is a certain punishment that one would have to come under to drive home the importance of keeping true to oaths. And Allah is Most Forgiving and Merciful. We must repent and seek His Forgiveness of our sins.