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down on you once and for all. There is nothing says, ‘My Lord, keep me thankful for the blessing
wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are ill, You bestowed on me and on my parents, and
in laying your weapons down; but take every keep me acting rightly, pleasing You. And make
precaution. Allah has prepared a humiliating my descendants righteous. I have repented to
punishment for the disbelievers. (4:102) You and I am truly one of the Muslims.’ (46:15)
In the case of those of your wives who are past
PREGNANCY the age of menstruation, if you have any doubt,
It is He Who created you from a single self and their waiting period should be three months, and
made from him his spouse so that he might find that also applies to those who have not yet men-
repose in her. Then when he covered her she struated. The time for women who are pregnant
bore a light load and carried it around. Then is when they give birth. Whoever has fear of
when it became heavy they called on Allah, their Allah–He will make matters easy for him. (65:4)
Lord, ‘If You grant us a healthy child, we will be Let them (the women you divorce) live where
among the thankful!’ (7:189) you live, according to your means. Do not put
Allah knows what every female bears and every pressure on them, so as to harass them. If they are
shrinking of the womb and every swelling. pregnant, maintain them until they give birth. If
Everything has its measure with Him. (13:8) they are suckling for you, give them their wages
So she (Maryam) conceived him and withdrew and consult together with correctness and cour-
with him to a distant place. (19:22) tesy. But if you make things difficult for one an-
On the day they see it, every nursing woman will other, another woman should do the suckling for
be oblivious of the baby at her breast, and every you. (65:6)
pregnant woman will abort the contents of her
womb, and you will think people drunk when PRE-ORDAINED DECREE
they are not drunk; it is just that the punishment (I. E. DESTINY)
of Allah is so severe. (22:2) No self can die except with Allah’s permission, at
We have instructed man concerning his parents. a predetermined time. If anyone desires the re-
Bearing him caused his mother great debility and ward of this world, We will give him some of it. If
the period of his weaning was two years: ‘Give anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We
thanks to Me and to your parents. I am your final will give him some of it. We will recompense the
destination.’ (31:14) thankful. (3:145)
Allah created you from dust and then from a drop Then He sent down to you, after the distress, se-
of sperm and then made you into pairs. No fe- curity, restful sleep overtaking a group of you,
male becomes pregnant or gives birth except whereas another group became prey to anxious
with His knowledge. And no living thing lives thoughts, thinking other than the truth about
long or has its life cut short without that being in Allah–thoughts belonging to the Time of
a Book. That is easy for Allah. (35:11) Ignorance– saying, ‘Do we have any say in the
Knowledge of the Hour is referred to Him. And affair at all?’ Say, ‘The affair belongs entirely to
no fruit emerges from its husk, nor does any fe- Allah.’ They are concealing things inside them-
male get pregnant or give birth, without His selves which they do not disclose to you, saying,
knowledge. On the Day He calls out to them: ‘If we had only had a say in the affair, none of us
‘Where are My associates?’ they will say, ‘We de- would have been killed here in this place.’ Say,
clare to you that none of us is a witness.’ (41:47) ‘Even if you had been inside your homes, those
We have instructed man to be good to his par- people for whom killing was decreed would
ents. His mother bore him with difficulty and have gone out to their place of death.’ So that
with difficulty gave birth to him; and his bearing Allah might test what is in your breasts and purge
and weaning take thirty months. Then when he what is in your hearts. Allah knows the contents
achieves his full strength and reaches forty, he of your hearts. (3:154)
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