Quran Chapter 4- 24a (Pt-5, Stg-1) (L-529) - درس قرآن
Condition for a marriage
Surah ‘An-Nisaaa’ (Women)
– Chapter – 4)
‘A-‘uu-zu Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
وَٱلْمُحْصَنَٰتُ مِنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ إِلَّا مَا مَلَكَتْأَيْمَٰنُكُمْ كِتَٰبَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأُحِلَّ لَكُم مَّا وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكُمْ أَن تَبْتَغُوا۟ بِأَمْوَٰلِكُم مُّحْصِنِينَ غَيْرَ مُسَٰفِحِينَ فَمَا ٱسْتَمْتَعْتُم بِهِۦ مِنْهُنَّ فَـَٔاتُوهُنَّأُجُورَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةً وَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا تَرَٰضَيْتُم بِهِۦ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ٱلْفَرِيضَةِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا 24
24a. And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save
those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a Decree of Allah for
you. And lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that ye seek them
with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery.
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24a. WAL-MUHSANAATU minan-nisaaa-‘i
‘illaa maa malakat ‘ay-maanukum Kitaaballaahi
‘alay-kum. Wa ‘uhilla lakum-maa waraaa-‘a
zaalikum ‘an-tab-taguu bi-‘amwaali-kum-muhsi-niina
gayra musaa-fihiin.
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Commentary
MUHSANAATUN - It is plural of Muhsanatun. It
aims the woman who is proper wife of any man and her husband is present (the
married women).
muhsi-niina – It is
plural of muhsinun. That is to say; the man, who makes a woman
properly his wife through nuptial knot.
maa malakat ‘ay-maanukum –
(whom your right hands possess) maa (whom), malakat (came
in possession) ‘ay-maanukum (your right hands), possession of right
hands means those bondwomen and slaves, who come under control of Muslims as a
result of any war etc. Technically the word Milkun yamiin is
also used for them.
Now unlawfulness of those women is being described who have
already been married with any man. In this situation, they cannot be married
someone else until either their husbands would not divorce them or they would
not be separated from the nuptial due to the death of their husbands. However,
if any woman is already in nuptial with any man and she has come in your
possession, then it is lawful to marry her. This situation happens in that
manner when any infidel woman has been tied in nuptial knot and the Muslims
bring her towards any darus-Salam (a Muslim country) after
attacking the dar-ul-harb (a country where God-worshipping is
not permissible) and arresting her.
Remember it that the woman who comes in possession of Muslims,
caught from dar-ul-harb, it is necessary for her to be lawful
after passing at least one period of menstruation. In addition, that woman
should not be infidel or idolater, but from the People of the Scripture. Then
it has been described that the women, whose unlawfulness has been mentioned
above, besides them all remaining women are lawful for you but with following
four conditions, which have been prescribed with it:
- Ask for the
women, that is to say; get willingness properly for nuptial knot from the
potential wife.
- Accept paying
her the amount of Mahr (the money or its value incumbent
on the husband).
- The purpose
should be to make the woman proper your wife, not only for the desire of
sensuality.
- The marriage
should not be hidden but it should be in the gathering of the people and
in the presence of the witnesses.