Quran Chapter 2- 228a (Pt-2, Stg-1) (L-294) - درس قرآن
Waiting period for a woman
Surah
‘Al-Baqarah (The Cow) – Chapter – 2)
‘A-‘uu-zu Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast.)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.)
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast.)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.)
وَٱلْمُطَلَّقَٰتُ يَتَرَبَّصْنَ بِأَنفُسِهِنَّ ثَلَٰثَةَ قُرُوٓءٍ وَلَا يَحِلُّ لَهُنَّ أَن يَكْتُمْنَ مَا خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ فِىٓ أَرْحَامِهِنَّ إِن كُنَّ يُؤْمِنَّ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْءَاخِرِ وَبُعُولَتُهُنَّأَحَقُّ بِرَدِّهِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ إِنْ أَرَادُوٓا۟ إِصْلَٰحًا وَلَهُنَّ مِثْلُ ٱلَّذِى عَلَيْهِنَّ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ وَلِلرِّجَالِ عَلَيْهِنَّ دَرَجَةٌ وَٱللَّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ 228
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228a. Women who are divorced shall
wait, keeping themselves apart, three (monthly) courses. And
it is not lawful for them that they should conceal that which Allah hath
created in their wombs if they are believers in Allah and the Last Day.
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228a. Wal-mutallaqaatu
yatarab-basna bi-‘anfusi-hinna salaasata quruuu’.
Wa laa ya-hillu lahunna ‘any-yaktumna maa
khalaqAllaahu fiii ‘ar-haa-mihinna
‘in-kunna yu’-minna Billaahi
wal-Yawmil-‘Aakhir.
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Commentary
‘Al-mutallaqaatu – (the divorced
women), each that woman who has been divorced, is called mutallaqah. According
to the religious laws; it aims those wives only, who are free, adult and act of
copulation has been performed with them, not those women who are lawful
bondwomen, minor or who have not been touched with any adult male.
Yatarab-basna
bi-‘anfusi-hinna – (they shall wait, keeping themselves apart), for
instance; it should not be as that hither the husband divorced her wife and
thither she wedded any other husband. Likewise, this relationship will become
just a game.
Salaasata
quruuu-‘in – {three (monthly) courses}, literal meaning of qura’ is
only a specified period but here it means menstruation.
Maa khalaqAllaahu – (which Allah
has created), the thing which is in the womb, that is to say; if she is
pregnant then she should not conceal her pregnancy.
It has been mentioned
in this verse that if the husband has divorced her wife then that woman should
not marry immediately another husband. Moreover, she would have to wait not less
than three (monthly) courses. There are many philosophies; for example; the
husband gets chance of consideration and meditation with cool heart. On the
other side; the faith regarding pregnancy becomes matured. Like this, the
children of one person can’t get the other. So, it is duty of the woman that
she should disclose which is in her womb.
This term is
called ‘iddat in the Divine law of the Religion. As though;
two lessons have been commanded here:
· It is reasonable to
wait for a specified period after divorce.
· If she is pregnant
then she should not conceal but disclose it. There are uncountable moral and
social advantages in these both orders.
The matters which are
being discussed continuously regarding divorce in this part of Holy Qur’an,
demand our special attention, because in the present epoch; the divorce has
become a joke in the world. A few women would be in the West who don’t get
divorce, whereas in the East, they are tyrannized but are not divorced. There
is a dire need to publicize this temperate teaching of Islam nowadays.
