Noah's Ark: An Invitation to Faith — Page 47
NOAH'S ARK Unlike the Gospel, the Quran does not only forbid you from being angry with your brothers without due reason. Rather, it instructs you not only to suppress your own anger but to act upon and exhort others to follow this example as well. Not only should you have mercy on others, but advise your brothers to do the same. Unlike the Gospel, the Quran does not instruct you to forbear with all your wife's improprieties except in the case of adultery. Nor does it forbid divorce. Instead, it says:. In other words, the Quran does not desire for the impure to remain with the pure. Though your wife may not be adulterous, if she casts lustful glances at others and embraces them; or is guilty of such actions which verge on infidelity, though she has not yet committed the act of adultery; or if she reveals her nakedness; if she is idolatrous and mischievous; and if she is averse to the Holy God in whom you believe, then, if she does not change her ways, you are free to divorce her, for her mode of life has already estranged her from you. . She is no longer a part of you. Under such circumstances it would not be lawful for you to shamelessly remain with your wife, for she is no longer a part of your body, but is instead a foul and rotten limb, which ought to be 7 And exhort one another to mercy. (Surah Al-Balad, 90:18) [Publisher] 8 Good things are for good men. (Surah An-Nur, 24:27) [Publisher] 47