Nisa'/Women Passages
- philhoraia
- Apr 18, 2023
- 16 min read
S 2:49 And when we saved you from Fir’awn’s family afflicting you with the evil of torture, slaughtering your sons and letting your women live. And in that there is a great affliction from your lord.
Women? In the Biblical original baby boys are to be killed but baby girls are to be spared. Babies are NOT women.
The author speaks of "a great affliction"; what is this "affliction" from the author's 'lord'? The massacre of the baby boys?
S 2:187 Obscenity towards your women has been made lawful for you on the night of fasting. They are a garment for you and you are a garment for them. Allah knew that you used to deceive yourselves so he repented for you and pardoned you. So now have relations with them and seek what Allah has written for you. And eat and drink until the white thread is distinguished for you from the black thread of dawn. Then complete the fast to the night. And do not have relations with them when you are secluded in the mosques. Those are Allah’s hudud, so do not approach them. Thus Allah clarifies his verses for people; perhaps they will fear.
Obscenity has been made lawful? This was composed following Umar's having had sexual relations with a female. From an Answering Islam article:
Another incident in which ’Umar was involved is an anecdote mentioned by most Muslim scholars and recorded for us by Suyuti in his book, "The Reasons For Verses Of Qur’an" (Asbab al-Nuzul, p. 31). The Suyuti says:
"During Ramadan, (the fasting month) Muslim’s were accustomed to eat, drink and have intercourse with women if they are not sleeping. After they sleep and wake up they abstain. ’Umar had an intercourse with (one of his women) after he woke up from his sleep. He went to the prophet and told him what happened to him. God sent down this verse, ‘It is made lawful for you to go unto your wives on the night of the fast"’ (2:187).
This story is recorded not only by the Suyuti but by all the scholars also (refer, for instance, to the Bukhari, part 6, p. 31; Zamakh-shari in his book al-Kash-Shaf part I, p. 337; the Baydawi, p. 39; the Jalalan p. 26, and the Sahih al-Muswad p. 17).
In this episode, we find ’Umar ibn al-Khattab does not like to refrain from sexual intercourse with his wife during the fasting month and after sleeping. Therefore, after he and other Muslim men violated the commandment, Muhammad found that he did not have a choice but either to punish and to reprove them or to rescind the order by claiming that Gabriel had come down to him with the above mentioned verse. Muhammad chose the latter to appease ’Umar and his friends.
S 2:222 And they ask you about menstruation. Say: It is harm, so withdraw from women during menstruation. And do not approach them until they purify. And when they have purified come to them from where Allah has commanded you. Allah loves the repenters and he loves the purifiers. Capricious Revelation of the Qur’an
Also:
The word alrrafathu, which comes from rafath, refers to obscene, immoral behaviour and conduct. The word is used in this manner in the following citation:
The pilgrimage is (in) the well-known months, and whoever is minded to perform the pilgrimage therein (let him remember that) there is (to be) no lewdness (rafatha) nor abuse nor angry conversation on the pilgrimage. And whatsoever good ye do Allah knoweth it. So make provision for yourselves (Hereafter); for the best provision is to ward off evil. Therefore keep your duty unto Me, O men of understanding. S. 2:197 Pickthall
... Let there be no obscenity, nor wickedness, nor wrangling in the Hajj ... Y. Ali
... abstain from lewd speech, from all wicked conduct, and from quarrelling ... Asad
Renowned Sunni expositor Ibn Kathir commented on the meaning of Rafath in Sura 2:197:
Prohibition of Rafath (Sexual Intercourse) during Hajj Allah said: ... <He should not have Rafath>
This Ayah means that those who assume the Ihram for Hajj or `Umrah are required to avoid the Rafath, meaning, sexual intercourse. Allah's statement here is similar to His statement:
<It is made lawful for you to have Rafath (sexual relations) with your wives on the night of the fast.> (2:187) Whatever might lead to sexual intercourse, such as embracing, kissing and talking to women about similar subjects, is not allowed. Ibn Jarir reported that Nafi` narrated that `Abdullah bin `Umar said, "Rafath means sexual intercourse or mentioning this subject with the tongue, by either men or women." `Ata' bin Abu Rabah said that Rafath means sexual intercourse and foul speech. This is also the opinion of `Amr bin Dinar. `Ata' also said that they used to even prevent talking (or hinting) about this subject. Tawus said that Rafath includes one's saying, "When I end the Ihram I will have sex with you." This is also the same explanation offered by Abu Al-`Aliyah regarding Rafath. `Ali bin Abu Talhah said that Ibn `Abbas said, "Rafath means having sex with the wife, kissing, fondling and saying foul words to her, and similar acts." Ibn `Abbas and Ibn `Umar said that Rafath means to have sex with women. This is also the opinion of Sa`id bin Jubayr, `Ikrimah, Mujahid, Ibrahim An-Nakha`i, Abu Al-`Aliyah who narrated it from `Ata' and Makhul, `Ata Al-Khurasani, `Ata' bin Yasar, `Atiyah, Ibrahim, Ar-Rabi`, Az-Zuhri, As-Suddi, Malik bin Anas, Muqatil bin Hayyan, `Abdul-Karim bin Malik, Al-Hasan, Qatadah and Ad-Dahhak, and others. (Source; italic and underline emphasis ours)
The late Maulana Muhammad Ali wrote:
197b. Three things are prohibited in pilgrimage, rafath, fusuq and jidal. Rafath means foul, unseemly, immodest or obscene speech (LL). Fusuq, according to a saying of the Prophet, signifies abusing (Rz). Jidal signifies contending in an altercation or disputing or litigating (LL). The pilgrimage represents the final stage of spiritual progress, and hence the pilgrim is enjoined not to speak words which should be a source of annoyance to anybody. Perfect love of God requires perfect peace with man; hence no offence should be caused to any man. The doing of good to others is recommended instead in the words whatever good you do, Allah knows it. (Source: *, *) Qur'an Contradiction: Does Allah Command Evil and Abomination or Doesn’t He?
S 2:223 Your women are tilth for you so come to your tilth as you will and dispatch for yourselves and fear Allah and know that you are meeting him. And give good news to the believers.
S 2:226 For those who swear off their women is a waiting of four months then if they return then Allah is a forgiver, merciful.
S 2:231 And when you have divorced the women and they have reached their term, hold them with kindness or dismiss them with kindness. And do not hold them in harm to transgress. And he who does that has wronged himself. And do not take Allah’s verses as a quip, and remember Allah’s grace upon you and what he has sent down upon you of the book and the wisdom. He advises you therewith. And fear Allah and know that Allah is learned in everything.
S 2:232 And when you have divorced the women and they have reached their term, do not support them to futter their husbands when they have mutually consented between them with kindness. That is advised therewith he who was among you believing in Allah and the last day. That is chaster for you and purer. And Allah knows and you do not know.
S 2:235 And there is no misdemeanour upon you in what you have hinted at of the engagement of women or you have concealed in yourselves. Allah has known that you will mention them but do not promise them secretly except to say kind speech. And do not decide on the nikah knot until the book reaches its term. And know that Allah knows what is in yourselves so watch out for him. And know that Allah is a forgiver, clement.
S 2:236 There is no misdemeanour upon you if you divorce the women what you have not touched or specified an obligation for them. And amuse them--upon the wealthy man according to his wealth and upon the miserly according to his wealth--property with kindness, a right upon the good-doers.
S 3:14 Adorned has been for people the love of lusts--of women and sons and amassed qanatir of gold and silver and branded horses and cattle and tilth. That is the goods of the dunya life but Allah has the loveliness of the retreat.
S 3:42 And when the angels said: Maryam, Allah has chosen you and purified you and chosen you over the women of the ‘alamin.
Wasn't Maryam of the 'alamin? Why do the angels twice say that she has been chosen?
S 3:61 So he who argues with you about it after what has come to you of knowledge, say: Come, let us call our sons and your sons and our women and your women and ourselves and yourselves then let us execrate and put the curse of Allah on the liars.
S 4:1 People, fear your lord who created you from one soul and created from it its husband and broadcast from them many men--and women. And fear Allah whom you ask and the wombs. Allah was a watchman over you.
S 4:3 And if you fear not being equitable to the orphans then futter what was agreeable to you of the women--two and three and four. But if you fear not acting justly then one or what your right hands have possessed. That is more appropriate that you may not oppress.
S 4:4 And give the women their charities nihlatan. But if they remit to you of anything of it of themselves, then consume it hani’an mari’an.
S 4:7 For the men a share of what the parents and close relatives have left and for the women a share of what the parents and close relatives have left, be it little or much of it--an imposed share.
S 4:11 Allah advises you concerning your children: for the male the like of the share of two females. But if there are women above two, then for them is two thirds of what he has left. And if there is one, then for her is half. And for his parents, for each of them a sixth of what he has left, if he has a child. But if he had no child, and his parents have inherited from him, then for his mother a third. And if he has brothers, then for his mother a sixth after a bequest he makes or debt. Your parents and your sons--you do not know which of them is closer to you in benefit. An obligation from Allah. Allah was learned, wise.
S 4:15 And those who commit fahishah of your women then call witnesses against them, four among you. And if they testify then detain them in the houses until death causes them to die or Allah makes a way for them.
S 4:19 Those who have believed, it is not lawful for you to inherit women unwillingly. And do not constrain them to steal some of what you have given them except that they commit obvious fahishah. And live with them with kindness. But if you dislike them, then perhaps you dislike a thing and Allah has put much good in it.
Inherit women? Regarding this bit, the Jalalayn say: "O you who believe it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will read either karhan or kurhan as alternative forms that is to say coercing them into this. In pre-Islamic times they used to inherit women from their kin and if they so wished they could marry a woman without a dowry or marry her off and take the dowry for themselves or prevent her from marriage until she gave up what she had inherited or until she died and they could inherit from her." https://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=4&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2 and the Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs:
(O ye who believe! It is not lawful for you forcibly) coercively (to inherit the women (of your deceased kinsmen)) the women of your fathers, (nor (that) ye should put constraint upon them) by preventing them from marrying again. This verse was revealed about Kabshah Bint Ma'an al-Ansariyyah and Muhsin Ibn Abi Qays al-Ansari; for before the advent of Islam, they used to inherit the women of their fathers (that ye may take away a part of that which ye have given them) take away part of that which your fathers gave them, (unless they be guilty of flagrant lewdness) unless they are guilty of fornication by the testimony of witnesses in which case they should be imprisoned. However, imprisoning fornicators was abrogated by the verse on stoning. In the pre-Islamic period, men used to inherit the wives of their fathers in the same way as they inherited their properties. The wife of a deceased father used to be inherited by the eldest son. If the woman was rich and beautiful, the eldest son would marry her without giving her any dowry. If, however, she was neither rich, young nor beautiful, he would not marry her but instead leave her untouched until she ransomed herself with her own money. Allah forbade them from indulging in such a practice. Then He showed them how one must treat women, saying: (But consort with them) keep their company (in kindness) with beneficence and goodness, (for if ye hate them) i.e. hate their company (it may happen that ye hate a thing) their company (wherein Allah hath placed much good) Allah may provide you with righteous children from them. https://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=4&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2
You may steal from them if they commit fahishah?
S 4:22 And do not futter what your father futtered of women except what has preceded. It was fahishah and detestation and evil was the way.
S 4:23 Forbidden to you have been your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and the daughters of a brother and the daughters of a sister and your mothers who have suckled you and your sisters from suckling and the mothers of your women and your step-daughters who are in your guardianship of your women whom you have had relations with. But if you have not had relations with them then there is no offence upon you. And the wives of your sons who are from your backbones and that you gather between two sisters except what has preceded. Allah was a forgiver, merciful.
S 4:24 And the muhsanat of the women except what your right hands have possessed, a book of Allah upon you. And made lawful for you is what is beyond that, that you seek with your money, being fortified, not musafihun. So what you have enjoyed of it from them, give them their wages as an obligation. And there is no transgression on you concerning what you have agreed upon after the obligation. Allah was learned, wise.
S 4:32 And do not wish for what Allah has favoured some of you over others with. For men there is a share of what they have earned and for women a share of what they have earned. And ask Allah from his favour. Allah was learned in everything.
S 4:34 Men are supporters of women because Allah has preferred some of them to others and because they have spent from their monies. So righteous women are obedient, guarding for the ghayb what Allah has guarded. And those whose recalcitrance you fear, warn them and abandon them in beds and hit them. Then if they obey you do not seek a way against them. Allah was high, big.
S 4:43 Those who have believed, do not approach salat when you are intoxicated until you know what you are saying nor junub except passing a way until you have washed. And if you are ill or on a journey or one of you has come from faeces or has touched women and have not found water then do tayammum with good highland, then wipe your faces and your hands. Allah was pardoning, a forgiver.
Are women like faeces?
S 4:75 And what is wrong with you, not fighting in the way of Allah and the feeble among the men and the women and the children, those who say: Our lord, take us out of this village, the wrongdoer, its people, and appoint for us from your presence a protector and appoint for us from your presence a helper.
S 4:98 Except the feeble of the men and the women and the children, not capable of a trick and not guiding to a way.
S 4:127 And they consult you concerning women. Say: Allah advises you concerning them and what is read to them in the book concerning the orphans of the women whom you do not give what has been written for them and you seek to futter them and the needy of the boys and to stand for orphans with equity. And what you do of good Allah was learned in it.
Are there adult orphans?
S 4:129 And you will not be able to act justly among the women even if you desired to and do not incline with all inclination and leave her like one hanging. And if you reconcile and fear then Allah was a forgiver, merciful.
S 4:176 They enquire of you. Say: Allah advises you concerning the kalalah. If a man has perished not having a child and he has a sister then hers is half of what he has left. And he inherits from her if she has no child. But if there are two females then theirs is two-thirds of what he has left. But if they are brothers, men and women, then for the male the like of the share of the two females. Allah makes clear for you lest you stray. And Allah is learned in everything.
Regarding kalalah, see: Allah, his messengers, and their language Is a woman a brother?
S 5:6 Those who have believed, when you stand for salat wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows and wipe your heads and your feet up to the ankles. But if you are junub, purify yourselves. But if you are ill or on a journey or one of you has come from crapping or has touched women but has not found water, then do tayammum with good plateau then wipe your faces and your hands with it. Allah does not want to make any difficulty for you but wants to purify you and to perfect his grace upon you. Perhaps you will thank.
S 7:81 You come to men lustfully instead of women. Rather, you are a people who are extravagant.
S 7:127 And the chiefs of Fir’awn’s people said: Will you leave Musa and his people that they may corrupt in the land and he leave you and your gods? He said: We shall massacre their sons and let their women live and we are despots above them.
S 7:141 And when we saved you from Fir’awn’s family, afflicting you with the evil of torture, massacring your sons and letting your women live. And in that there is a great affliction from your lord.
S 14:6 And when Musa said to his people: Remember Allah’s grace upon you when he saved you from Fir’awn’s family, imposing the evil of torture upon you and slaughtering your sons and letting your women live. And in that is a great affliction from your lord.
S 24:31 And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and to guard their privates and not to display their adornment except what is visible of it. And let them draw their khumur over their bosoms and not display their adornment except to their husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers or their sons or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or their sisters’ sons or their women or what their right hands have possessed or the attendants possessing no physical desire among the men or the children who have not become manifest upon the awrat of women. And let them not strike with their feet that one may know what they conceal of their adornment. And repent to Allah together, believers; perhaps you will succeed.
S 24:60 And the rank and file of the women who do not hope for nikah, there is no misdemeanour upon them to take off their clothes, not adorning with adornment. And that they abstain is better for them. And Allah is a hearer, learned.
S 27:55 Do you go with the men in lust instead of the women? Rather, you are ignorant people.
S 28:4 Fir’awn was lofty in the land and made its family parties, considering a band of them deficient in power, slaughtering their sons and letting their women live. He was of the corrupters.
S 33:30 Women of the prophet’s, the one among you who commits obvious fahishah, the torture is doubled double for her. And that was easy for Allah.
S 33:32 Women of the prophet’s, you are not like one of the women. If you have feared then do not be submissive in speech so that the one in whose heart is disease desires, and say decent speech.
The author's 'women' aren't like "one of the women"? They're not women?
S 33:52 Women are not lawful to you after nor to exchange them for husbands even if their comeliness has appealed to you, except what your right hand has possessed. And Allah was a watchman over everything.
S 33:55 There is no misdemeanour upon them concerning their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or their sisters’ sons or their women or what their right hands have possessed. And fear Allah. Allah was a witness over everything.
S 33:59 Prophet, tell your husbands and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their jalabib over them. That is more appropriate that they should be known and not harmed. And Allah was a forgiver, merciful.
"Women of the believers". Was the founder of Islam not a believer?
S 40:25 Then when he brought them the truth from us they said: Kill the sons of those who have believed with him and let their women live. And the scheme of the kafirun is but in error.
S 48:25 They are those who have disbelieved and blocked you from the Sacred Mosque and the hadi prevented from reaching its place of sacrifice. And had it not been for believing men and women whom you did not know that you might trample them and disgrace would hit you from them without knowledge. That Allah may admit into his mercy whom he wills. Had they been apart we would have tortured those who had disbelieved among them with painful torture.
S 49:11 Those who have believed, let a people not mock a people; perhaps they are better than they, nor women women; perhaps they are better than they. And do not criticise yourselves or give opprobrious nicknames. Miserable was the name of fusuq after the faith. And those who have not repented, those are the wrongdoers.
S 58:2 Those who pronounce zihar among you from their women, they are not their mothers. None are their mothers but those who bore them. And they say baseness of speech and untruth. And Allah is a pardoner, a forgiver.
S 58:3 And those who pronounce zihar from their women then return to what they have said and the freeing of a neck before they touch each other. That are you admonished with. And Allah is an expert in what you do.
S 65:1 Prophet, when you divorce women, divorce them for their ‘iddah and enumerate the ‘iddah and fear Allah your lord. Do not expel them from their houses nor should they leave except that they commit obvious fahishah. And those are Allah’s hudud. And he who transgresses Allah’s hudud, he has wronged himself. You do not know; perhaps Allah produces another matter after that.
S 65:4 And those who have despaired of menstruation of your women, if you doubt then their ‘iddah is three months and those who have not menstruated, and the pregnant, their term is until they place their burden. And he who fears Allah, he makes for him ease of his affair.
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