The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2)

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PT. 5 والمُحْصَنَتُ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ إِلَّا مَا CH. 4 AN-NISA' 25. And forbidden to you are married women, except such as has Allah enjoined on you. And allowed to you are those beyond E مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ ۚ كِتُبَ اللهِ عَلَيْكُمْ your right hands possess. This وَ أُحِلَّ لَكُمُ مَّا وَرَاءَ ذَلِكُمْ أَنْ تَبْتَغُوا بِأَمْوَالِكُمْ مُّحْصِنِيْنَ غَيْرَ مُسْفِحِيْنَ that, that you seek them by means of your property, فَمَا اسْتَمْتَعْتُم بِهِ مِنْهُنَّ فَاتُوهُنَّ marrying them properly and اُجُورَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةً وَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ not committing fornication. And فِيمَا تَرْضَيْتُمْ بِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِ الْفَرِيضَةِ them, give them their dowries اِنَّ اللهَ كَانَ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا for the benefit you receive from b as fixed, and there shall be no sin for you in anything you mutually agree upon, after the fixing of the dowry. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing, Wise. 504 4:26; 5:6. 4:5; 60:11. (Tirmidhi, ch. on Nikah). The injunction is based on sentiments of deference to near relationship and is meant to exclude possibility of dissensions in the close family circle. For similar reasons the Holy Prophet has forbidden to unite in marriage a maternal aunt and her sister's daughter, or a paternal aunt and her brother's daughter. 504. Important Words: (married) is the plural of and and is derived from meaning, he or it was or became inaccessible, fortified or protected against attack. means, the woman was chaste, i. e. protected against moral or sexual المرأة woman who abstains from what is unlawful; a free or noble woman as opposed to a bondwoman. Similarly means, a married man; chaste man who abstains from what is unlawful: a free or noble man. means, a fort or a fortress. The word clue would, therefore, mean, women who have protected themselves by entering, as it were, the fortress of marriage. The word has been used in the Quran in all the different senses, i. e. (1) married women, (2) chaste women and (3) free women; but in the present verse it has been used in the sense of married women (Lane & Aqrab). committing fornication) is) مسافحين which is means, the the active participle from احصنت المرأة. sinfulness. i. e سفح الدم therefore, derived from They say محصنة. woman got married means a married woman; a chaste 638 he shed blood or made it flow.