The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 195
PT. 4 AN-NISA' CH. 4 وَلَا تَنْكِحُوا مَا نَكَحَ آبَاؤُكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ And marry not those women. 23 whom your fathers married, except what has already passed. It is a thing foul and hateful and an evil way. 502 R. 4. إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَاحِشَةً ط وَمَقْتًا وَسَاءَ سَبِيلان حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَّهُتُكُمْ وَبَنْتُكُمْ Forbidden to you are your. 24 وَاَخَوتُكُمْ وَعَمْتُكُمْ وَخُلتُكُمْ وَبَنْتُ الْآخِ وَبَنْتُ الْأُخْتِ وَأُمَّهُتُكُمُ الَّتِي your اَرْضَعْنَكُمْ وَاَخَوتُكُمْ مِّنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your fathers' sisters, and mothers' sisters, and brother's daughters, and daughters, and sister's وَأَمَّهُتُ نِسَآبِكُمْ وَرَبَابِبْكُمُ الَّتِي فِي your foster حُجُوْرِكُمْ مِنْ نِسَا بِكُمُ الَّتِي دَخَلْتُمُ mothers that have given you suck, and your foster-sisters, بِهِنَّ فَإِنْ لَّمْ تَكُوْنُوْا دَخَلْتُمْ بِهِنَّ فَلَا and the mothers of your wives and your step-daughters, who جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَحَلَابِلُ ابْنَا بِكُمُ are your wards by your wives الَّذِينَ مِنْ أَصْلَابِكُمْ وَأَنْ تَجْمَعُوا بَيْنَ - unto whom you have gone in الْأُخْتَيْنِ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ إِنَّ اللهَ كَانَ but if you have not gone in غَفُورًا رَّحِيْمان unto them, there shall be no sin upon you and the wives of your sons that are from your wives, the very tie of marriage having the force of a covenant. 502. Important Words: a most hateful act (Aqrab). Commentary: The clause, except what has already does not mean that ,means, he hated | passed مقته. (hateful) مقتا him on account of a foul or evil stepmothers taken as wives before action committed by him; he hated him with a violent hatred on account of a foul or evil action. therefore, means, violent hatred based on some foul or evil action; contracting marriage with the former wife of one's father which is considered to be 635 this verse was revealed could be retained. What the words mean is simply that if such men repent and amend, no harm will come to them for what unlawful acts they might have committed in the past. The past will certainly be forgiven but the