The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 172
CH. 4 AN-NISA' PT. 4 against the above view rather than in favour of it, for it makes no mention of Eve, and speaks of all women, and it is clear that every woman has not been created from a rib. human beings, a wife was provided for Adam from his own species. And just as other men's wives are not created from their ribs, so was the wife of Adam not created out of his ribs; and just as our wives have been The expression "created from a rib" made from ourselves in the sense that is evidently figurative and must not they are of the same kind as be taken literally. What it means is ourselves, so was the wife of Adam only that, like unto a rib, there is a created from his rib in the sense that sort of crookedness in the nature of she belonged to the same race as woman and that this very Adam did. The preposition (from) crookedness lends charm to her. An which has given rise to this analogous Quranic expression, viz. : misconception has been used in the i. e. "man is made of Quran not only about Adam but about other men as well (e. g. 4:60; 9:128; 10:3; 62:3, 4), and in both cases it should mean the same thing, i. e. belonging to the same kind or species. The Quran lends no support whatever to the view that Eve was actually created from the rib of Adam, as is clear from the following verses: We have created you in pairs (78:9); And of everything have We created pairs (51:50), which means that, just as God created a mate for every living thing, so did He make one for Adam. He did not need to (lit. from) haste" (21:38) helps to illustrate the point. These words clearly do not mean that man has been created out of a substance called or haste. They mean only that man is hasty by nature. The above view has been supported by Majma'ul Biḥār, Baḥrul-Muḥīt and in the above ḥadīth the Arabic word Sirājul-Wahhāj, which all agree that ✓ means a certain crookedness of manners, the word itself meaning crookedness. In fact, this ḥadīth refers to a depart from this law in respect of certain peculiarity of woman, viz. her Adam and to create a female for him out of his own body. The idea of Eve having been created out of the rib of Adam seems to have arisen from a saying of the Holy Prophet to the effect "Women have been created from a rib, and surely, the most crooked part of a rib is the highest part thereof. If you set yourself to straighten it, you will break it" (Bukhārī, ch. on Nikāḥ). This ḥadīth is, however, an argument 612 has take of affectation displeasure and coquetry. This "crookedness" been spoken of in the ḥadīth as the highest or the best trait in her character, and those, who affectation of anger on her part as an expression of her real anger and begin to deal harshly with her for that reason, in fact destroy woman's most attractive and winning feature. The verse places "the fear of God", side by side with "respect for the ties