LESSON # 268 FROM HOLY QUR’AN
Beginning Of Divorce
BAQARAH – 2 (The Cow)
Verse – 226 & 227 of
286, Section – 28 (Part - 2)
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226. Those who forswear their wives must wait four months;
then, if they change their mind, lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
227. And if they decide upon divorce (let them remember that)
Allah is Hearer, Knower.
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226. Lillaziina
yu’-luuna min-nisaaa-‘ihim tarabbusu
‘arba-‘ati ‘ash-hur. Fa-‘in-faaa-‘uu fa-‘innallaaha Gafuurur-Rahiim.
227. Wa
‘in azamut-talaaqa fa-‘innallaaha Samii-‘un ‘Aliim.
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Lesson
Yu’-luuna – (who forswear), this word is derived from ‘iilaa which means forswear.
Idiomatically its object is to swear living separate from the wife. It was
common custom in the Arabians that whenever they became rage, they forswore
remaining separate from their wives.
Talaaq – (divorce), according to law disconnecting the
mutual relations entirely between husband and wife is called ‘divorce’,
repudiation. Different methods about divorce were customary in the world before
Islam. There was no restriction or responsibility in the matter of divorce
between Jews. Whenever any person wished, he got rid of his wife writing a
divorce letter only. The wife could wed another husband at the same time.
Comparing this freedom the Christians chose very difficult manner. They kept no
accommodation for husband and wife to be separate, except that the wife becomes
guilty of fornication. The same condition is of the Indian religion. The
divorce is still unlawful for them till today. On the contrary Islam adopted
the way of temperance.
It was mode of Arabians that after forswear, which was a kind of
divorce near to them, used to become free from paying the expenditures of his
wife, performing other duties and responsibilities for her. Islam corrected
this rule and told that forswear is not equal to breaking marriage, but it is
only the beginning. Islam has determined length of time for meditation and
consideration and period for this long time kept four months, which is quite
sufficient for this purpose that the husband may think with cool heart on all aspects
and this important matter of separation from his wife.
Islam has put its permission that if the husband feels faithfully
that if his life partner either doesn't cooperate with him or doesn't fulfill
his lawful desires, then he should divorce her, despite it that they pine away
their entire lives, remain displeased from one another. It is better that they
should be disconnected.
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