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The Pleading58. Al-Mujādilahالمجادلة

al-Mujādilah

The Pleading Woman

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58:1

qad samiʿa llāhu qawla llatī tujādiluka fī zawjihā wa-tashtakī ʾilā llāhi wa-llāhu yasmaʿu taḥāwurakumā ʾinna llāha samīʿun baṣīrun-i

Allah has certainly heard the speech of her who pleads with you about her husband and complains to Allah. Allah hears the conversation between the two of you. Indeed Allah is all-hearing, all-seeing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

58:2

alladhīna yuẓāhirūna minkum min nisāʾihim mā hunna ʾummahātihim ʾin ʾummahātuhum ʾillā llāʾī waladnahum wa-ʾinnahum la-yaqūlūna munkaran mina l-qawli wa-zūran wa-ʾinna llāha la-ʿafuwwun ghafūrun

As for those of you who repudiate their wives by zihar, they are not their mothers; their mothers are only those who bore them, and indeed they utter an outrage and a lie. Indeed Allah is all-excusing, all-forgiving.

— Ali Quli Qarai

58:3

wa-lladhīna yuẓāhirūna min nisāʾihim thumma yaʿūdūna li-mā qālū fa-taḥrīru raqabatin min qabli ʾan yatamāssā dhālikum tūʿaẓūna bihī wa-llāhu bi-mā taʿmalūna khabīrun

Those who repudiate their wives by ³ih¡r and then retract what they have said, shall set free a slave before they may touch each other. This you are advised [to carry out], and Allah is well aware of what you do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

58:4

fa-man lam yajid fa-ṣiyāmu shahrayni mutatābiʿayni min qabli ʾan yatamāssā fa-man lam yastaṭiʿ fa-ʾiṭʿāmu sittīna miskīnan dhālika li-tuʾminū bi-llāhi wa-rasūlihī wa-tilka ḥudūdu llāhi wa-li-l-kāfirīna ʿadhābun ʾalīmun

He who cannot afford [to free a slave] shall fast for two successive months before they may touch each other. If he cannot [do so], he shall feed sixty needy persons. This, that you may have faith in Allah and His Apostle. These are Allah’s bounds, and there is a painful punishment for the faithless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

58:5

ʾinna lladhīna yuḥāddūna llāha wa-rasūlahū kubitū ka-mā kubita lladhīna min qablihim wa-qad ʾanzalnā ʾāyātin bayyinātin wa-li-l-kāfirīna ʿadhābun muhīnun

Indeed those who oppose Allah and His Apostle will be subdued just as those who passed before them were subdued. We have certainly sent down manifest signs, and there is a humiliating punishment for the faithless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

58:6

yawma yabʿathuhumu llāhu jamīʿan fa-yunabbiʾuhum bi-mā ʿamilū ʾaḥṣāhu llāhu wa-nasūhu wa-llāhu ʿalā kulli shayʾin shahīdun

The day when Allah will raise them all together, He will inform them about what they have done. Allah has kept account of it, while they have forgotten, and Allah is witness to all things.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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58:7

ʾa-lam tara ʾanna llāha yaʿlamu mā fī s-samāwāti wa-mā fī l-ʾarḍi mā yakūnu min najwā thalāthatin ʾillā huwa rābiʿuhum wa-lā khamsatin ʾillā huwa sādisuhum wa-lā ʾadnā min dhālika wa-lā ʾakthara ʾillā huwa maʿahum ʾayna mā kānū thumma yunabbiʾuhum bi-mā ʿamilū yawma l-qiyāmati ʾinna llāha bi-kulli shayʾin ʿalīmun

Have you not regarded that Allah knows whatever there is in the heavens and whatever there is in the earth? There dost not takes place any secret talk among three, but He is their fourth [companion], nor among five but He is their sixth, nor when they are less than that or more but He is with them wherever they may be. Then He will inform them about what they have done on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed Allah has knowledge of all things.

— Ali Quli Qarai

58:8

ʾa-lam tara ʾilā lladhīna nuhū ʿani n-najwā thumma yaʿūdūna li-mā nuhū ʿanhu wa-yatanājawna bi-l-ʾithmi wa-l-ʿudwāni wa-maʿṣiyati r-rasūli wa-ʾidhā jāʾūka ḥayyawka bi-mā lam yuḥayyika bihi llāhu wa-yaqūlūna fī ʾanfusihim law-lā yuʿadhdhibunā llāhu bi-mā naqūlu ḥasbuhum jahannamu yaṣlawnahā fa-biʾsa l-maṣīru

Have you not regarded those who were forbidden from secret talks but again resumed what they had been forbidden from, and hold secret talks [imbued] with sin and transgression and disobedience to the Apostle? And when they come to you they greet you with words with which Allah never greeted you, and they say to themselves, ‘Why does not Allah punish us for what we say?!’ Let hell suffice them: they shall enter it, and it is an evil destination!

— Ali Quli Qarai

58:9

yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾidhā tanājaytum fa-lā tatanājaw bi-l-ʾithmi wa-l-ʿudwāni wa-maʿṣiyati r-rasūli wa-tanājaw bi-l-birri wa-t-taqwā wa-ttaqū llāha lladhī ʾilayhi tuḥsharūna

O you who have faith! When you converse secretly, do not hold private conversations [imbued] with sin and aggression and disobedience to the Apostle, but converse in [a spirit of] piety and Godfearing, and be wary of Allah toward whom you will be gathered.

— Ali Quli Qarai