An-Nisa 22: Do not marry the women whom your fathers married, except for what has already occurred. This is a clear lewdness. It is despicable and an evil path.
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Do not marry the women whom your fathers married, except for what has already occurred. This is a clear lewdness. It is despicable and an evil path.
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(In this verse Allah says, "We do not hold anyone responsible for that which We do not announce" (apart from what happened in the past). So the past is past. Now Allah has announced His command to the people. Do not marry the wives of your fathers, and do not marry the wives they divorced, or the wives who remain after our fathers have passed on to the Hereafter. For this is immoral. To take a woman who is one's mother and who has served her father is a disgrace to the members of one's family and disrespectful to the memory of one's deceased father. It is also disgusting and abominable. To marry a woman who was his mother at one time and who is like his own mother to him is a truly ugly thing and a very bad way to travel. Human beings are different from other creatures in that they have honor and dignity. If man forgets his humanity and marries a woman who is a mother to him, he will be subjected to the equivalent of the verse in which Allah (swt) says, "Man is like the four-legged creatures that roam the earth, even more perverse in his ways". However, if a human being, as a human being, adopts this custom that is found in animals, and marries his father's wife, who is his mother, what difference does it make from the above verse?
(It is a very bad way) Any action that is disapproved of by Islam, that is against the will and command of Allah is a bad way. People are sinners for these actions. The bad path is a path to hell.
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Apart from what is past, the women your fathers married, do not marry them. The age of ignorance is something else now, He says. We make Our command known to you: the women your fathers married, do not marry them, because they are your mothers, He says — your mothers. Because it is a an indecency, a loathsome thing and an evil way, He says — an evil way. Yes. Apart from what is past — in this verse Allah Almighty declares: We do not hold accountable anyone of a generation We did not inform. So the past is in the past; now Allah has made His decree known to people. Do not marry your fathers' wives.
Those they divorced, or, when our fathers pass on to the hereafter, the wives they leave behind — do not marry them. Because this is an indecency. Taking a woman who was one's stepmother and served one's father is, toward that person's family members, a degradation, and toward the memory of his late father, disrespect. At the same time it is loathsome, a repulsive situation. Marrying a woman who in her time was in his mother's place, like his own mother to him, is truly an ugly thing, and as a way it is a very bad way. What distinguishes humans from other created beings is that they are the possessors of honour and dignity.
If a person forgets his humanity and, with a woman who mothered him, marries — in a verse Allah Almighty says man is like the four- legged beasts roaming the earth. Indeed, even more astray in his course — he becomes the object of that verse. But this custom found in animals — if a person, a human with his humanity, deems it fitting for himself in human form, and marries his father's wife, who is like his mother, how is he any different from the verse above?
(?) is on an evil path. Deeds that Islam does not approve, that Allah does not want, outside His command — the paths of such acts are an evil path. People are sinners through these acts they have committed. And the evil way is a way that leads to hell. The evil way. Yes. Today,
today, sadly, many incidents are occurring, may Allah protect us. In these there is neither fear of Allah nor any desire to live the religion of Islam.
Allah Almighty has made His command known to us, He has made known with whom it is forbidden. Whoever pushes Allah's limits and oversteps those limits, these have left the religion of Islam and become people living their own ideologies (?).
'Your mothers' — see, Allah Almighty does not say 'your mother' in His verse.