Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 284
Quran: 'Allah has provided answers to all those objections raised by the hypocrites, which had given rise to a storm of calumnies, slander and mischief in respect of the marriage of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) with Hadrat Zainab (may Allah be pleased with her). These hypocrites argued that Zainab was the wife of an adopted son of the Holy Prophet and by this connection she stood in a position of the Prophet's daughter-in-law. Hence, after divorce from. Zaid, the Prophet had taken his own daughter-in-law as wife. ”¹ '10. This critic of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad then continues his analysis of what necessitated the revelation of this Quranic passage by stating that in order to refute the allegation, God Almighty announced that this marriage of the Holy Prophet had Divine sanction and was made to serve as a lawful precedent for Muslims to marry the divorced wives of their adopted sons. " He adds that in response to the charge that in: 'taking his own daughter-in-law as wife, he had contravened his own law since the wife of a son is forbidden to his father, the Almighty affirmed that the Holy Prophet had no sons thereby making absolutely clear that the man whose divorced wife had been taken into wedlock, not being his real son; the act, therefore did not imply violation of any law. '12. This controversy stirred up by the critics of the Holy Prophet, upon whom be peace, did not end with this assurance by the Almighty Lord. . Maududi proceeds to describe how the opponents of the Holy Prophet argued that: 'Admitted that the adopted son is not a real one, and on that basis a father might lawfully marry the divorced spouse of his adopted son, but where was the compulsion for the Prophet to do so. "¹ *13. In response to this argument of the enemies of Islam, Maududi states that: 10. Ibid: pg 1 11. Ibid: pp 1/1 12. Ibid: pg 2 13. Ibid: pg 2 285