每一位成年且心智健全的公民，无论男女，无论穆斯林还是非穆斯林，都有权成为乌玛议会或省议会的成员；非穆斯林成员的权限仅限于就统治者的压迫或伊斯兰法律的误用提出申诉。

Every citizen who is adult and sane, has the right to be a member of the Ummah Council or the Provincial Council, whether they are male, female, Muslim or non Muslim; the non-Muslim member is restriced to raising complaints regarding the oppression of the rulers or the misapplication of the laws of Islam.

任何持有国家公民身份的穆斯林,只要已成年且神志健全,无论男女,都有权成为乌玛议会的成员。这是因为乌玛议会没有统治的授权,它也不属于那则禁止女性担任统治者的圣训范畴之内。它实际上属于协商(Shura)和问责的范畴,而协商与问责是男女双方都享有的权利。在先知穆罕默德ﷺ受命的第十三年,也就是他迁徙的那一年,有七十五名穆斯林前来见他,其中有两名女性,他们都在第二次阿喀巴宣誓中向他效忠。这是一次关于战争与战斗的效忠宣誓,也是一次政治性的效忠宣誓。当他们全部完成宣誓后,他对他们所有人说:

Any Muslim who holds the citizenship of the State, provided he is mature and sane, has the right to be a member of the Ummah Council, irrespective of whether they were male or female. This is because the Council of the Ummah has no mandate to rule and it does not come under the narration that prevents the woman from becoming a ruler. It is rather within the issue of consultation (Shura) and accounting, which is a right for both men and women. In the thirteenth year of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh)’s Prophethood, in other words, in the year he emigrated, there came to him seventy-five Muslims, among whom were two women, and they all gave him the Second Bay’a of Al- ‘Aqaba, which was a Bay’a of war and fighting and a political Bay’a. Once they had all given their Bay’a, he said to all of them: