A digression explaining the wisdom behind Allah creating the woman as deficient compared to the man, and a refutation of the Westerners in this regard.

The Shaykh : Jewelry is what a woman wears; a woman adorns herself with gold and silver because a woman needs something to complete her, for she, by her nature and by what Allah chose for her for a profound wisdom, is deficient compared to the man in intellect and in religion. A woman should not say, "Why am I wronged? My intellect and my religion are deficient." We say that the deficiency in her intellect and religion is for her benefit and for the benefit of the man as well, so that the superiority of the man over her becomes clear, and so that the guardianship and authority that Allah the Exalted established for the man over the woman becomes clear. Men are the protectors and maintainers of women. If the woman were like the man in intellect, intelligence, and management, would it be valid for him to be her protector and maintainer? No, it would not be valid for him to be her protector and maintainer, and the bond between the man and the woman, through which offspring is produced and the community increases, would not be fulfilled. Thus, the wisdom is clear in that Allah the Exalted created the female as deficient compared to the man, and this is in fact part of her perfection and part of the man's perfection, contrary to what the Westerners, the Westernized, and the overly Westernized claim, who say that the woman must be equal to the man, and who even see that the woman should be preferred over the man. Go to the bathrooms; it is written "Bathroom for Ladies," "Men's Bathroom," "Bathroom for Men." They do not say "for the Masters"; for women they say "for the Ladies," and for men they say "for the Men," not "for the Masters." If some of them happen to be fair, he says, "Ladies and Gentlemen." This fair one gave the man his right and called him a master, but he preferred the woman. There is no doubt that this is an inversion, an inversion of the fitrah (the innate natural disposition), an inversion of common sense, and an inversion of the Shari'ah (Islamic sacred law), for the fitrah, common sense, and the Shari'ah, each of them necessitates that the man be the one who is preferred and that he is the master of the woman. Perhaps we have all read what Allah mentioned in Surat Yusuf: But now, on the contrary, it is said, "I found his mistress in the kitchen," and this is wrong. It is obligatory for us to know the status of the female in order to elevate her standing, and elevating the standing of the woman is that she is placed in the position that Allah Mighty and Majestic placed her in. I said this as a digression, otherwise I am speaking about what? About the zakah (the obligatory alms) of jewelry, and I said that the woman is the one who needs jewelry because of her deficiency, in order to complete herself with it. And listen to the saying of Allah the Exalted: What did He use as an example for the Most Merciful? He said to them, "Daughters for you, and sons for them." The interpretation of this verse is in Surat al-Nahl: And if she is not clear in dispute, she is also deficient in thinking. That is, "Or one who is brought up in adornment and is not clear in dispute," is she like one who is not brought up in adornment and is clear in dispute? No, they are not equal.