Sunday 25 November 2012

Protection in Insecurity


Surah Ahzaab (59) refers to the social situations which were not safe for the wives of Prophet Muhammad S. and the believing Muslim Women, at that time. This commandment is specific in nature.The reader is recommended to study in context.

33:53     O ye who believe! Enter not the Prophet's houses,- until leave is given you,- for a meal, (and then) not (so early as) to wait for its preparation: but when ye are invited, enter; and when ye have taken your meal, disperse, without seeking familiar talk. Such (behaviour) annoys the Prophet: he is ashamed to dismiss you, but God is not ashamed (to tell you) the truth. And when ye ask (his ladies) for anything ye want, ask them from before a screen: that makes for greater purity for your hearts and for theirs. Nor is it right for you that ye should annoy God's Apostle, or that ye should marry his widows after him at any time. Truly such a thing is in God's sight an enormity.
33:54     Whether ye reveal anything or conceal it, verily God has full knowledge of all things.
33:55     There is no blame (on these ladies if they appear) before their fathers or their sons, their brothers, or their brother's sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the (slaves) whom their right hands possess. And, (ladies), fear God; for God is Witness to all things.
33:56     God and His angels send blessings on the Prophet: O ye that believe! Send ye blessings on him, and salute him with all respect.
33:57     Those who annoy God and His Apostle - God has cursed them in this World and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating Punishment.
33:58     And those who annoy believing men and women undeservedly, bear (on themselves) a calumny and a glaring sin.



يَـٰٓأَيُّہَا ٱلنَّبِىُّ قُل لِّأَزۡوَٲجِكَ وَبَنَاتِكَ وَنِسَآءِ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ يُدۡنِينَ عَلَيۡہِنَّ مِن جَلَـٰبِيبِهِنَّۚ ذَٲلِكَ أَدۡنَىٰٓ    أَن يُعۡرَفۡنَ فَلَا يُؤۡذَيۡنَۗ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ غَفُورً۬ا رَّحِيمً۬ا

O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful. (33:59)

Here the word جَلَـٰبِيبِهِنَّۚ is used their gowns, outer garments Consult Dictionary

And the term used for Annoy is يوءذي (harm,hurt,molest etc).
The subject matter continues..in the following verse...


33:60        Truly, if the Hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and those who stir up sedition in the City, desist not, We shall certainly stir thee up against them: Then will they not be able to stay in it as thy neighbours for any length of time:
33:61     They shall have a curse on them: whenever they are found, they shall be seized and slain (without mercy).





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