LESSON # 269 FROM HOLY QUR’AN
Term (‘Iddat)
BAQARAH – 2 (The Cow)
Verse – 228a of
286, Section – 28 (Part - 2)
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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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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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Lesson
‘Al-mutallaqaatu – (the divorced women), each that woman who has
been divorced, is called mutallaqah. According to the religious laws it
aims only those wives, who are free, adult and act of intercourse has been
performed with them, not those women who are lawful bondwomen, minor and 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 so that hither the husband divorced her wife and
thither she wedded any other husband. Likewise this relation will become just a
game.
Salaasata quruuu-‘in – (three (monthly) courses), literal meaning of qur’ 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 advisabilities for example; the husband gets chance of consideration
and meditation with cool heart. On the other side belief 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 belly.
This term is called ‘iddat
in the Divine law of Religion. As though two lessons have been commanded here:
1. It is reasonable to
wait for a specified period after divorce.
2. 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, and they are tyrannized in the East but
are not divorced. There is a dire need to publicize this temperate teaching of
Islam now a day.
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