To reason for their views...

To reason for their views, these individuals resort to some weak traditions or to some traditions which are presented under certain conditions or to some ambiguous traditions. One of these traditions is this part of Imam ‘Ali's letter and the sermon 80 of Nahj al-Balaghah which he offered at the end of al-Jamal war to reproach women.

Women are deficient in faith, deficient in (their) shares and deficient in intellect. The deficiency in their faith is their refraining from prayer and fasting in the days of their menstruation. The deficiency in their intellect is that the testimony of two women equals the testimony of one man. The deficiency in their shares is their inheritance which is half that of men.

Fear evil women and be on guard against the good ones, and do not obey them in what is good so that they may not tempt you to what is reprehensible." These individuals also base their reasonings on the axioms which Imam ‘Ali (as) has used in Hikmah Nahj al-Balaghah No 238: "المَرأةُ شَرٌّ كُلُّها وَشَرُّ مَا فِيهَا اَنَّها لابُدَّ مِنهَا" "A woman is evil, all of her; and worse than it is that she is indispensable.” These individuals, to verify their positions, resort to historical examples.

They say as well: Adam was humiliated in paradise because of a woman, Phoenix got refuge in the Qaf Mount because of a woman, Joseph got into the prison in the well because of a woman, The killing of Aal Imran was because of a woman.[^1] The Second Explanation: Certain scholars contend that due to a series of events which occur at a specific juncture of time, place, individuals, conditions, and their causes become the subject of either admiration or reproach.

These admiration or reproach are not innate to those events, rather they depend on the sweet or bitter events in which they occur.