The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 640
CH. 33 AL-AHZAB PT. 21 ادْعُوهُمْ لا بَابِهِمْ هُوَ اَقْسَطُ عِنْدَ اللهِ * فَإِنْ لَمْ تَعْلَمُوا أَبَاءَهُمْ فَإِخْوَانُكُمْ فِي. equitable in the sight of Allah الدِيْنِ وَمَوَالِيْكُمْ وَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ 6. Call them by the names of their fathers. That is more But if you know not their fathers, then they are your فِيمَا أَخْطَأْتُم بِهِ وَلَكِنْ مَّا تَعَمَّدَتْ brothers in faith and your friends. And there is no blame on you in respect of any mistake you may unintentionally make in this matter, but you will be called to account for that which your hearts intend. And Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful. 3078 b قُلُوبُكُمْ وَكَانَ اللهُ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا them. "And blood relations are النَّبِيُّ اَوْلَى بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ The Prophet is nearer to the. 7 وَازْوَاجُةَ أَمَّهُتُهُمْ وَأُولُوا الْأَرْحَامِ اللَّهِ believers than their own selves, and his wives are as mothers to بَعْضُهُمُ أولى بِبَعْضٍ فِي كِتُبِ اللهِ مِنَ nearer to one another, according الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُهَجِرِينَ إِلَّا أَنْ تَفْعَلُوا اَوْلِيِّبِكُمْ ۖ إلَى أَولِيكُم مَّعْرُوفًا كَانَ ذَلِكَ the Helpers as well as the to the Book of Allah, than the rest of the believers from among Migrants, except that you show "8:76. understood to be the seat of emotions and feelings. It can entertain only one kind of emotion at one time. Contradictory emotions cannot possibly be entertained by it at the same time. Moreover, different human relations evoke different emotions. Hence merely calling one's wife one's mother or calling a stranger one's son cannot evoke the corresponding emotions in one's | heart. A wife can never become a mother nor a stranger a real son. 2554 Mere words of mouth cannot change the state of mind of the one who utters those words, nor can they alter hard facts of physical relationship. So it is foolish on the part of a person to call one's wife one's mother or to call another a son who is not one's real son. 3078. Commentary: The words "in faith" qualify both "your brethren" and "your friends" and the clause would read as "they are your brethren and friends in faith. "