The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam — Page 37
31 is to say, the code that regulates the natural conditions. of barbarians, like eating, drinking, marriage, etc. , and establishes them at a just level of social values and rescues them from an animal existence. In this context the Holy Quran ordains: حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَّهُتُكُمْ وَبَنْتُكُمْ وَاَخَوتُكُمْ وَعَمْتُكُمْ وَخُلتُكُمْ وَبَنتُ الْآخِ وَبَنتُ الْأُخْتِ وَأَمَّهُتُكُمُ الَّتِي أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ وَآخَوتُكُمْ مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ وَأَمَّهُتُ نِسَا بِكُمْ وَرَبَا بُكُمُ الَّتِي فِي حُجُورِكُمْ مِنْ سَابِكُمُ الَّتِي دَخَلْتُمْ بِهِنَّ فَإِن لَّمْ تَكُونُوا دَخَلْتُمْ بِهِنَّ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ و حلا بل ابنَا بِكُمُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ أَصْلَابِكُمُ وَأَنْ تَجْمَعُوا بَيْنَ الْأُخْتَيْنِ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ 29 لَا يَحِلُّ لَكُمْ اَنْ تَرثُوا النِّسَاءَ كَرْهًا 30 31 وَلَا تَنْكِحُوا مَا نَكَحَ أَبَاؤُكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ :3 29. Forbidden to you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your fathers' sisters, and your mothers' sisters, and brother's daughters, and sister's daughters, and your foster-mothers that have given you suck, and your foster-sisters, and the mothers of your wives, and your step-daughters, who are your wards by your wives unto whom in-but if you you have gone have not gone in unto them, there shall be no sin upon you—and the wives of your sons that are from your loins; and it is forbidden to you to have two sisters together in marriage, except what has already passed; (The Holy Quran, an-Nisa' 4:24) 30. It is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will; (The Holy Quran, an-Nisa' 4:20) 31. And marry not those women whom your fathers married, except what has already passed. (The Holy Quran, an-Nisa' 4:23)