Bad Women for Bad Men?
- philhoraia
- Jun 3, 2022
- 3 min read
S 24:26 Malignant women are for malignant men and malignant men are for malignant women. And good women are for good men and good men are for good women. Those are exonerated from what they say. Theirs is forgiveness and a generous provision.
Does Allah predestine bad men to marry bad women and vice versa?
Were some of the founder of Islam's wives bad? In S 66:1-5 we read:
Prophet, why do you forbid what Allah has permitted for you, seeking to please your husbands? And Allah is a forgiver, merciful. Allah has made for you the absolution of your oaths obligatory. And Allah is your mawla and he is the learned, the wise. And when the prophet confided a hadith in some of his husbands and when she informed of it and Allah revealed it to him he told some of it and exposed some. Then when he informed her of it she said: Who informed you of this? He said: The learned, the expert has informed me. If you repent to Allah--your hearts have deviated. And if you back one another up against him then Allah, he is his mawla and Jibril and the righteous of the believers, and the angels after that are an assistant. Perhaps his lord if he divorced you would exchange for him husbands better than you, surrendering, believing, obedient, repentant, worshipping, fasting, matrons and virgins.
Regarding this verse, see: Tafsir: Sura 66
Regarding verse 5, we read in a hadith:
Narrated `Umar (bin Al-Khattab):
My Lord agreed with me in three things: -1. I said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), I wish we took the station of Abraham as our praying place (for some of our prayers). So came the Divine Inspiration: And take you (people) the station of Abraham as a place of prayer (for some of your prayers e.g. two rak`at of Tawaf of Ka`ba)". (2.125) -2. And as regards the (verse of) the veiling of the women, I said, 'O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I wish you ordered your wives to cover themselves from the men because good and bad ones talk to them.' So the verse of the veiling of the women was revealed. -3. Once the wives of the Prophet (ﷺ) made a united front against the Prophet (ﷺ) and I said to them, 'It may be if he (the Prophet) divorced you, (all) that his Lord (Allah) will give him instead of you wives better than you.' So this verse (the same as I had said) was revealed." (66.5).
The Quran speaks of Nuh's and Lut's 'women':
S 66:10 Allah has given an example for those who have disbelieved: Nuh’s woman and Lut’s woman. They were under two slaves of our righteous slaves but they betrayed them. So they did not avail anything from Allah. And it was said: Enter the fire with those who enter.
The verb used for 'betray' is khana.
to be disloyal, to be faithless, to be false, to be treacherous, to be perfidious; to act disloyally, to act treacherously, to act perfidiously
to betray
to cheat, to dupe, to hoodwink, to deceive, to impose upon, to fool, to deceive, to mislead
to forsake, to desert, to let down
to fail, to break (a promise, contract) خان - Wiktionary
Google Translate gives: betray, renegade, sell out, falter, play false, rat, squeal, split, two-time.
Almaany:
خَان : - زَعِيم، أَمِير، سُلْطان
- A ruler with direct power of his people - sultan; prince; soverein; chief; king; monarch
خَان : - فُنْدُق
- An establishment providing accommodation and meals for payment - House in which persons are bo...
خَان ( فعل ): - خان زَوجَته
- two-time
خانَ ( فعل ): - غَدَرَ بِ، خَتَرَ
- Act deceitfully towards - Act treacherously toward - Act treacherously towards - Behave treacherously towards - Be evidence or symptom of - Give up or reveal treacherously - To act in a dishonest way to win an advantage - lead astray; be disloyal to; be unfaithful to; sell out; betray; cheat; deceive; double-cross; fail
خانَ ( فعل ): - أسْلَمَ
- desert; forsake
خانَ ( فعل ): - نَقَضَ، خالَفَ، أَخَلَّ بـِ
- Fail to keep - Commit a breach of - Cause something to be incomplete - Stop doing something for a while - breach; break; contravene; infract; infringe; transgress; violate; pause
The same verb is used in a hadith speaking of Hawwa (Eve):
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "But for the Israelis, meat would not decay and but for Eve, wives would never betray their husbands."
How did Hawwa 'betray' her husband? If S 24:26 is true and if the hadith is true, was 'Prophet' Adam a bad man?
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