The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 187
PT. 4 AN-NISA' CH. 4 sharers in one-third, after the payment of any bequests which may have been bequeathed or of debt, without prejudice to the debt. This is an injunction from Allah, and Allah is All- Knowing, Forbearing. 495 تِلْكَ حُدُودُ اللهِ وَمَنْ يُطِعِ اللَّهَ These are the limits set by. 14 وَرَسُولَهُ يُدْخِلْهُ جَنَّتٍ تَجْرِى مِنْ and His Messenger, He will تَحْتِهَا الأَنْهُرُ خَلِدِينَ فِيهَا وَذَلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ Allah; and whoso obeys Allah make him enter Gardens through which streams flow; therein shall they abide; and that is a great triumph. His Messenger and وَمَنْ يَعْصِ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَيَتَعَدَّ And whoso disobeys Allah. 15 حُدُودَهُ يُدْخِلْهُ نَارًا خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَلَهُ - command عَذَابٌ مُّهِينٌ and transgresses His ments, He will make him enter into Fire; therein he shall abide; and he shall have an humiliating punishment. a3:133; 8:21; 33:72. b See 2:26. 72:24. one-third, as in the second case) and the remaining five-sixths will go to the father. The reason why the father is awarded a larger share in this case is that the father has also to support the brothers or sisters of the deceased. The subject of inheritance continued in the succeeding verse. 495. Important Words: 1S a (one who has neither parent nor child) is derived from 6 i. e. he was or became fatigued, tired or wearied and could proceed no further; he was or 627 became one having no child and no parent, the latter meaning being based on the former, as a person having no child or parent becomes, as it were, too fatigued for the racial march. ais (1) a person who leaves behind neither father nor child, male or female; or (2) a person who leaves behind neither father nor son. According to Ibn 'Abbas, is a person who leaves no son irrespective of the fact whether his father is living or not. This would thus be the third meaning of a (Lane, Aqrab & Mufradāt).