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IV - Treaty of Ḥudaibiyyah & its Magnificent Outcomes 149 the Muslims. 1 Idolatrous Women were also Released On the one hand, where a special case was proposed for Muslim women, on the other on this occasion, special injunctions were also enacted in relation to idolatrous women; that if an idolatrous women be married to a Muslim, she be released from wedlock. Furthermore, the order was issued that in the future, no idolatrous woman can remain married to a Muslim man. These injunctions were also revealed by means of the Holy Qur’ān, 2 and after the revelation of these verses, Ḥaḍrat ‘Umar ra and various other companions, who until this time were still married to various idolatrous women, divorced their idolatrous wives and released them. 3 In this context, it is also worthy of mention that Islām has not forbidden marriage to all non-Muslim women. Rather, it has only forbidden marriage to idolatrous women and has deemed marriage to women of the Ahl-e-Kitāb as lawful. 4 The wisdom of these injunctions are as follows: Firstly: The religion of an idolater is poles apart from Islām and there is no chain of commonality between the two. Furthermore, by marrying 1 * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābul-Maghāzī, Bābu Ghazwatil-Hudaibiyyah, Ḥadīth No. 4182 * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābut-Tafsīr, Tafsīru Sūratil-Mumtaḥinah, Bābu Idhā Jā’akumul-Mu’minātu Muhaājiratin, Ḥadīth No. 4891 * Tārīkhur-Rusuli Wal-Mulūk (Tārīkhuṭ-Ṭabarī), By Abū Ja‘far Muḥammad bin Jarīr Aṭ-Ṭabarī, Volume 3, p. 134, Dhikrul-Aḥdāthillati Kānat Fī Sanati Sittim-Minal-Hijrah/Dhikrul-Khabari ‘An ‘Umratin-Nabiyyi sa Allati Ṣaddahul-Mushrikūna Fīhā ‘Anil-Bait, Dārul-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon, Second Edition (2002) * Jāmi‘ul-Bayāni ‘An Ta’wīli Āyatil-Qur’ān (Tafsīruṭ-Ṭabari), By Imām Abū Ja‘far Muḥammad bin Jarīr Aṭ-Ṭabarī, Volume 28, pp. 78-81, Tafsīru Sūratil-Mumtaḥinah, Verse No. 10, Dāru Iḥyā’it- Turāthil-‘Arabī, Beirut (2001) * Usdul-Ghābah Fī Ma‘rifatiṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By ‘Izzuddīn Ibnul-Athīr Abul-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Muḥammad, Volume 6, pp. 401-402, Ummu Kulthūmin bintu ‘Uqbah, Dārul-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon (2003) 2 Al-Mumtaḥinah (60:11) 3 * Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābush-Shurūṭ, Bābush-Shurūṭi Fil-Jihādi. . . , Ḥadīth No. 2733 * Tafsīrul-Qur’ānil-‘Aẓīm (Tafsīru Ibni Kathīr), By ‘Imāduddīn Abul-Fidā’ Ismā‘īl bin ‘Umar Ibni Kathīr, Volume 8, p. 122, Tafsīru Sūratil-Mumtaḥinah, Under verse 10, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (1998) * Tārīkhur-Rusuli Wal-Mulūk (Tārīkhuṭ-Ṭabarī), By Abū Ja‘far Muḥammad bin Jarīr Aṭ-Ṭabarī, Volume 3, p. 134, Dhikrul-Aḥdāthillati Kānat Fī Sanati Sittim-Minal-Hijrah/Dhikrul-Khabari ‘An ‘Umratin-Nabiyyi sa Allati Ṣaddahul-Mushrikūna Fīhā ‘Anil-Bait, Dārul-Fikr, Beirut, Lebanon, Second Edition (2002) * Jāmi‘ul-Bayāni ‘An Ta’wīli Āyatil-Qur’ān (Tafsīruṭ-Ṭabari), By Imām Abū Ja‘far Muḥammad bin Jarīr Aṭ-Ṭabarī, Volume 28, p. 83, Tafsīru Sūratil-Mumtaḥinah, Verse No. 10, Dāru Iḥyā’it-Turāthil- ‘Arabī, Beirut (2001) 4 Al-Mā’idah (5:6)