66. "The Prohibition"
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
O Prophet! why do you forbid (yourself) that which Allah has
made lawful for you; you seek to please your wives; and Allah is Forgiving,
Merciful.
Allah indeed has sanctioned for you the expiation of your oaths
and Allah is your Protector, and He is the Knowing the Wise.
And when the prophet secretly communicated a piece of
information to one of his wives— but when she informed (others) of it, and
Allah made him to know it, he made known part of it and avoided part; so
when he informed her of it, she said: Who informed you of this? He said:
The Knowing, the one Aware, informed me.
If you both turn to Allah, then indeed your hearts are already
inclined (to this); and if you back up each other against him, then surely
Allah it is Who is his Guardian, and Jibreel and -the believers that do good,
and the angels after that are the aiders.
Maybe, his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place
wives better than you, submissive, faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers,
fasters, widows and virgins.
O you who believe! save yourselves and your families from a fire
whose fuel is men and stones; over it are angels stern and strong, they do
not disobey Allah in what He commands them, and do as they are
commanded.
O you who disbelieve! do not urge excuses today; you shall be
rewarded only according to what you did.
O you who believe! turn to Allah a sincere turning; maybe your
Lord will remove from you your evil and cause you to enter gardens beneath
which rivers flow, on the day on which Allah will not abase the Prophet and
those who believe with him; their light shall run on before them and on their
right hands; they shall say: Our Lord! make perfect for us our light, and
grant us protection, surely Thou hast power over all things.
O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites,
and be hard against them; and their abode is hell; and evil is the resort.
Allah sets forth an example to those who disbelieve the wife of
Nuh and the wife of Lut: they were both under two of Our righteous
servants, but they acted treacherously towards them so they availed them
naught against Allah, and it was said: Enter both the fire with those who
enter.
And Allah sets forth an example to those who believe the wife
of Firon when she said: My Lord! build for me a house with Thee in the
garden and deliver me from Firon and his doing, and deliver me from the
unjust people:
And Marium, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity,
so We breathed into her of Our inspiration and she accepted the truth of the
words of her Lord and His books, and she was of, the obedient ones.
