WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.299 In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 00:00:03.299 --> 00:00:08.199 Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:12.820 It was summarized by Dr. Aqeel bin Salem Al-Shammari 00:00:12.820 --> 00:00:16.500 Surah An-Nisa 00:00:16.500 --> 00:00:22.600 In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:27.600 And chaste women 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:31.100 Except what your right hands possess 00:00:31.100 --> 00:00:34.100 God's book be upon you 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:40.100 And I make lawful for you what is behind them 00:00:40.100 --> 00:00:48.100 To seek with your money 00:00:48.100 --> 00:00:52.100 They are protected, not marauders 00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:56.600 What did you enjoy from them? 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:02.100 So give them their wages as an obligation 00:01:02.100 --> 00:01:07.599 There is no blame on you for what you agree upon 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:10.599 After the obligatory prayer 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:16.519 Indeed, God is All-Knowing, All-Wise 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:19.019 Forbidden to you are chaste women with a husband 00:01:19.019 --> 00:01:22.019 Except what your right hands possess 00:01:22.019 --> 00:01:27.519 God has decreed for you to prohibit what is forbidden and to interpret what is permissible in a book 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:30.019 I make it permissible for you to do anything other than that 00:01:30.019 --> 00:01:33.019 To ask and seek with your money 00:01:33.019 --> 00:01:36.519 Either purchase or marriage with a dowry 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:39.019 Unbalanced exemptions 00:01:39.019 --> 00:01:42.519 And whatever women you have had sex with, you have intercourse with them 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.519 So give them their alms as a known obligation 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:52.519 There is no blame on you, O people, for what you and your women agree upon 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:56.019 After giving them their wages for marriage 00:01:56.019 --> 00:01:59.019 Whoever deprived you of what was due to them 00:01:59.019 --> 00:02:02.019 Or discharge, delay or put in place 00:02:02.019 --> 00:02:07.079 God knows what is best for you, people 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:11.080 Wise in what He arranges for you and for them 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:15.270 And whoever of you cannot afford it, it will take a long time 00:02:15.270 --> 00:02:20.270 To marry chaste believing women 00:02:20.270 --> 00:02:26.270 From what your right hand possesses 00:02:26.270 --> 00:02:31.270 From your faithful girls 00:02:31.270 --> 00:02:35.270 God knows best your faith 00:02:35.270 --> 00:02:39.270 Some of you from each other 00:02:39.270 --> 00:02:44.270 So marry them with the permission of their families 00:02:44.270 --> 00:02:51.270 And give them their wages 00:02:51.270 --> 00:02:55.270 With goodness, she is protected 00:02:55.270 --> 00:03:00.270 Non-combined chaste women 00:03:00.270 --> 00:03:05.270 And I don't have two sides 00:03:05.270 --> 00:03:10.270 If he is married, then he commits an obscene act 00:03:10.270 --> 00:03:17.270 They are entitled to half of what is due to chaste women 00:03:17.270 --> 00:03:20.270 Of torment 00:03:20.270 --> 00:03:24.270 This is for those of you who fear impotence 00:03:24.270 --> 00:03:28.270 And if you are patient, it is better for you 00:03:28.270 --> 00:03:32.270 God is Forgiving and Merciful 00:03:32.270 --> 00:03:37.069 And whoever among you, people, does not find enough money 00:03:37.069 --> 00:03:40.069 To have sex with free women 00:03:40.069 --> 00:03:42.069 Those who have believed in the monotheism of God 00:03:42.069 --> 00:03:47.069 And with the truth that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, brought 00:03:47.069 --> 00:03:51.069 Let him marry from among the believing women that your right-handed woman possesses 00:03:51.069 --> 00:03:54.069 God knows best the faith of those of you who believe 00:03:54.069 --> 00:03:57.069 Let you have intercourse with one another 00:03:57.069 --> 00:04:00.069 Let him have sex with this girl 00:04:00.069 --> 00:04:03.069 So they married them with the permission of their masters 00:04:03.069 --> 00:04:07.069 And give them their dowries according to what you agreed upon 00:04:07.069 --> 00:04:09.069 Chaste, unadulterated women 00:04:09.069 --> 00:04:13.069 And do not make friends over incest 00:04:13.069 --> 00:04:16.069 If they convert to Islam or get married 00:04:16.069 --> 00:04:19.069 If your female slaves come after he has been married, she will commit adultery 00:04:19.069 --> 00:04:23.069 They are entitled to half of the punishment imposed on free women 00:04:23.069 --> 00:04:26.069 So they committed adultery before the horse 00:04:26.069 --> 00:04:30.069 Fifty lashes and six months exile 00:04:30.069 --> 00:04:33.069 This is what I am looking for you people 00:04:33.069 --> 00:04:38.069 For those of you who fear harm to his religion and body due to punishment 00:04:38.069 --> 00:04:43.069 And if you, people, be patient about marrying female slaves, it will be better for you 00:04:43.069 --> 00:04:47.069 And God is Forgiving. You marry female slaves according to what is permissible for you 00:04:47.069 --> 00:04:50.069 And none of you have preceded in that 00:04:50.069 --> 00:04:56.069 Merciful to you when He permitted you to marry them in times of need 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:14.579 God wants to make clear to you what is permissible and what is forbidden 00:05:14.579 --> 00:05:18.579 And may those before you from among the people of faith guide you in your paths 00:05:18.579 --> 00:05:22.620 God wants to return you to obedience to Him 00:05:22.620 --> 00:05:26.620 To forgive you through your repentance for what has gone before 00:05:26.620 --> 00:05:31.620 God has knowledge of what is best for His servants in their religions and their world 00:05:31.620 --> 00:05:34.620 Wise in his management of them 00:05:34.620 --> 00:05:40.000 And God wants to repent to you 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:46.000 Those who follow desires want you to be swayed 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:51.000 God wants to show you your obedience and turning to Him 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:56.699 He wants those who follow their own desires to be people of falsehood 00:05:56.699 --> 00:06:01.699 That you turn away from the command of God with extreme injustice and hostility 00:06:01.699 --> 00:06:07.699 And God wants to ease your burden 00:06:07.699 --> 00:06:12.959 God wants them to be tempted to follow their desires 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:18.120 And God wants to ease your burden 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:23.569 Man was created weak 00:06:23.569 --> 00:06:30.569 God wants to make it easy for you, with His permission, to marry believing girls 00:06:30.569 --> 00:06:33.569 If you can't, go free 00:06:33.569 --> 00:06:38.569 And because you were created weak and incapable of abandoning intercourse with women 00:06:38.569 --> 00:06:40.730 So I give you permission 00:06:40.730 --> 00:06:54.730 O you who have believed, do not consume your wealth among yourselves unjustly 00:06:54.730 --> 00:07:02.790 Unless it is a trade with your consent 00:07:02.790 --> 00:07:06.790 And do not kill yourselves 00:07:06.790 --> 00:07:12.180 God has been merciful to you 00:07:12.180 --> 00:07:15.180 O you who have believed God and His Messenger 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:20.180 Do not consume each other's money through usury and gambling 00:07:20.180 --> 00:07:24.180 And other things that God has forbidden you 00:07:24.180 --> 00:07:30.180 Unless the money you eat is by mutual agreement between those among you who have sold it 00:07:30.180 --> 00:07:35.180 And do not kill one another while you are people of one religion 00:07:35.180 --> 00:07:38.180 God is still merciful to His creation 00:07:38.180 --> 00:07:44.180 And out of His mercy toward you, some of you have refrained from killing others, O believers 00:07:44.180 --> 00:07:48.180 And he acquired the wealth of some of you against others unjustly 00:07:48.180 --> 00:07:57.240 Whoever does that out of aggression and injustice, We will cast him into Hell 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:02.240 This was easy for God 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.750 Whoever does what God has forbidden 00:08:05.750 --> 00:08:10.750 Going beyond what God permitted for him to what He forbade him 00:08:10.750 --> 00:08:14.750 And he did that without what God permitted 00:08:14.750 --> 00:08:18.750 We will provide him with fire in which he may pray and burn in it 00:08:18.750 --> 00:08:24.750 Bringing the perpetrator of that fire to God was easy and simple 00:08:24.750 --> 00:08:43.820 If you avoid the major sins that you are forbidden, We will pardon your sins and admit you to a noble entrance. 00:08:43.820 --> 00:08:52.259 If you avoid the major sins that you are forbidden, We will atone for you, O believers, your minor sins. 00:08:52.259 --> 00:08:59.259 We bring you into the good, good, and honorable entrance by banishing evils and infirmities from it 00:08:59.259 --> 00:09:07.259 The most important things that have been said regarding major sins are polytheism, disobedience to parents, killing oneself, and false speech 00:09:07.259 --> 00:09:13.259 And slandering a fortified person, sworn oaths, magic, and escaping from advance 00:09:13.259 --> 00:09:16.710 And adultery with a neighbor's wife 00:09:16.710 --> 00:09:23.710 Do not covet what God has bestowed upon some of you over others 00:09:23.710 --> 00:09:30.059 Men have a share of what they have earned 00:09:30.059 --> 00:09:38.159 Women have a share of what they have earned 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:48.669 They asked God of His grace. Indeed, God is All-Knowing of all things 00:09:48.669 --> 00:09:52.669 And do not desire what God has favored some of you over others 00:09:52.669 --> 00:09:56.669 Men have a share of God's reward and punishment 00:09:56.669 --> 00:10:00.669 From what they have earned and done, whether good or evil 00:10:00.669 --> 00:10:05.669 Women have a share of what they gain from that, just as men do 00:10:05.669 --> 00:10:10.669 God is what is best for His servants in the good He has apportioned for them 00:10:10.669 --> 00:10:14.669 He raised some of them above others in religion and the world 00:10:14.669 --> 00:10:19.669 And other than that, His decree and rulings regarding them are All-Knowing 00:10:19.669 --> 00:10:24.669 He who has knowledge says, “Do not wish for anything other than what has been decreed for you.” 00:10:24.669 --> 00:10:28.669 But you must obey him and submit to his command 00:10:28.669 --> 00:10:32.669 Being satisfied with His decree and asking Him is His grace 00:10:32.669 --> 00:10:42.059 And for each of us, We made a follower from what the parents and relatives left behind 00:10:42.059 --> 00:10:48.059 And to those of you whose oaths are tied, give them their share 00:10:48.059 --> 00:10:56.059 God is a witness over all things 00:10:56.059 --> 00:11:01.470 And for all of you people, We have made a group and heirs 00:11:01.470 --> 00:11:05.470 From the inheritance left by his father and relatives 00:11:05.470 --> 00:11:10.470 And those whose right hands reach the oath between you and them 00:11:10.470 --> 00:11:14.470 So they gave them their share of support, aid, and opinion 00:11:14.470 --> 00:11:18.470 God is a witness to what you do 00:11:18.470 --> 00:11:21.470 And on your other actions 00:11:21.470 --> 00:11:25.470 So that He may reward all of you for all of this 00:11:25.470 --> 00:11:38.600 Men are guardians of women because God has favored some of them over others 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:42.600 And what they spent of their money 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:50.600 So the righteous women preserve the unseen by what God has preserved 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:58.600 And those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:05.600 They abandoned them in the shelters and beat them 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:11.600 If they obey you, do not seek a way against them 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:17.600 God is great 00:12:18.950 --> 00:12:22.950 Men are worthy of disciplining their wives 00:12:22.950 --> 00:12:26.950 Because God has favored men over their wives 00:12:26.950 --> 00:12:29.950 And because of the dowries they brought to them 00:12:29.950 --> 00:12:33.049 And spend money on them 00:12:33.049 --> 00:12:38.049 Women who are upright in religion are obedient to God and their husbands 00:12:38.049 --> 00:12:42.049 To protect themselves when their husbands are absent 00:12:42.049 --> 00:12:45.049 They are obligated to do so by God 00:12:45.049 --> 00:12:47.049 May God protect them 00:12:47.049 --> 00:12:50.139 So they did good to them and made amends 00:12:50.139 --> 00:12:54.139 And those who fear their superiority over their husbands 00:12:54.139 --> 00:12:59.139 And raising them from their beds out of hatred and turning away from them 00:12:59.139 --> 00:13:03.139 So they reminded them of God and feared them and His feast 00:13:03.139 --> 00:13:07.139 If they take heed, then you have no recourse against them 00:13:07.139 --> 00:13:15.139 But if it is clear, then keep a bond between them in their homes and in the houses in which they lie down 00:13:15.139 --> 00:13:18.139 And beat them so that they may build to God 00:13:18.139 --> 00:13:21.139 If I obey you, O people, your women 00:13:21.139 --> 00:13:24.139 Do not seek a way to their ears 00:13:24.139 --> 00:13:30.139 And do not seek a way to what is not permissible for you of their bodies and money 00:13:30.139 --> 00:13:34.139 God is supreme over everything 00:13:34.139 --> 00:13:37.139 And bigger than you and everything 00:13:37.139 --> 00:13:40.139 And if you fear, there will be a rift between them 00:13:40.139 --> 00:13:44.139 So they sent an arbitrator from his family 00:13:44.139 --> 00:13:48.139 And an arbiter of its people 00:13:48.139 --> 00:13:55.139 If he wants reconciliation, God will reconcile them 00:13:55.139 --> 00:14:02.230 Indeed, God is All-Knowing, All-Aware 00:14:02.230 --> 00:14:07.230 And if you know, O people, the difficulty of each one of them is different 00:14:07.230 --> 00:14:09.230 As for the woman 00:14:09.230 --> 00:14:14.230 Disobedience and her abandonment of fulfilling God’s rights over her to her husband 00:14:14.230 --> 00:14:16.230 As for the husband 00:14:16.230 --> 00:14:21.230 So he left him to keep her with kindness or let her go with kindness 00:14:21.230 --> 00:14:25.230 So they sent an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family 00:14:25.230 --> 00:14:29.230 The two rulers want reconciliation between men and women 00:14:29.230 --> 00:14:32.230 May God reconcile the two rulings 00:14:32.230 --> 00:14:35.230 They agree to reconcile between them 00:14:35.230 --> 00:14:41.230 God was aware of what the two rulers wanted in terms of reconciliation between the spouses and other things 00:14:41.230 --> 00:14:46.230 He is knowledgeable about this and other matters, both of them and of others 00:14:46.230 --> 00:14:50.230 So that each of them gets his reward 00:14:50.230 --> 00:14:56.860 Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation