The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 370
CH. 2 AL-BAQARAH PT. 2 فَلَا تَعْتَدُوهَا وَمَنْ يَتَعَدَّ حُدُودَ اللهِ if you fear that they cannot observe the limits prescribed by Allah, then it shall be no sin for either of them in what she gives to get her freedom. These are the limits prescribed by Allah, so transgress them not; and whoso transgresses the limits prescribed by Allah, it is they that are the wrongdoers. 236 فَأُولبِكَ هُمُ الظَّلِمُونَ ) to signify the periods of menstruation prescribed punishment for an offence. and purity taken together, i. e. the whole month. 236. Important Words: حدود means God's religious commandments (Aqrab). Commentary: امسك retain is derived from) امساك which is again derived from They say i. e. he stuck to it. is both transitive and intransitive. means, he got hold of it and stopped and retained it. ) means, he abstained from talking. means, (1) to hold or stop or prevent or retain; (2) to refrain or abstain (Aqrab). (send away) is the noun- infinitive from (sarraḥa) which is This verse contains the fifth check on divorce. A man who seeks permanent and irrevocable separation from his wife must pronounce divorce on three separate occasions, each in a separate sb i. e. period of purity, when the woman is clean and the man has not gone in unto her during that period of purity. The pronouncement of divorce twice or thrice at one and the same time is not permissible as the verse hints in the twice which signifies a مرتان word | سرح المواشى y sayرح derived from i. e. a such i. e. the cattle went forth for grazing. thing happening on two separate means, the flood moved on occasions and not two things leisurely. means, he sent him happening at one and the same time. away. means, he sent away The Holy Prophet treated or divorced his wife (Aqrab). collective pronouncements, whatever (limits) is the plural of their number, as only one divorce limit. means, he put a limit to it. (Tirmidhī & Dāwūd). According to means, he distinguished Nasā'ī, the Holy Prophet was one thing from the other. means, extremely angry when one day he (1) the limit or the line where two was told that a person had made all things meet; (2) last limit or the three pronouncements of divorce extremity of a thing; (3) that at one and the same time, and said: which a thing may be defined; (4) | "Is the Book of God going to be made by 370