Abstract: Inspired by Asmāʾ al-Sharqāwī’s 2025 book, Kāmilāt ʿAql wa-Dīn (“Complete in Mind and Religion”), this brief essay by Sāra al-Sherbīnī engages one of the more contested ḥadīths in the Islamic tradition — a text frequently cited to diminish women yet also defended and reinterpreted by Muslim scholars. Rather than denying other interpretations, it seeks to resist the hadith’s weaponization and to frame it instead within a different context — suggesting that “deficiency” may indicate lighter ritual and financial obligations rather than inherent incapacity. Written from the perspective of an Egyptian Muslim in her fourth year of a B.A. in English Translation Studies in Cairo and a former intern at the Center for Arab-West Understanding, the essay models how an ordinary reader might approach such a ḥadīth and the questions it poses.