Page 456 - Learning from the Qur'an

THE WAY TO APPROACH WOMEN
Your women are fertile fields for you, so come to your fertile fields
however you like. Send good ahead for yourselves and have fear
of Allah. Know that you are going to meet Him. And give good
news to the believers. (Qur'an, 2:223)

THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND
THE SIGNIFICANCE GIVEN TO WOMEN
Men have charge of women because Allah has preferred the one
above the other and because they spend their wealth on them.
Right-acting women are obedient, safeguarding their husband's
interests in his absence as Allah has guarded them. If there are
women whose disobedience you fear, you may admonish them,
refuse to sleep with them, and then beat them. But if they obey
you, do not look for a way to punish them. Allah is All-High, Most
Great. (Qur'an, 4:34)

NOT TO ACCUSE OTHERS OF
FORNICATION WITHOUT BEING CERTAIN
If any of your women commit fornication, four of you must be
witnesses against them. If they bear witness, detain them in their
homes until death releases them or Allah ordains another
procedure for their case. (Qur'an, 4:15)
Why, when you heard it, did you not, as men and women of the
believers, instinctively think good thoughts and say, 'This is
obviously a lie'? Why did they not produce four witnesses to it?
Since they did not bring four witnesses, in Allah's sight, they are
liars. (Qur'an, 24:12-13)
But those who make accusations against chaste women and then
do not produce four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and
never again accept them as witnesses. Such people are deviators.
(Qur'an, 24:4)

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