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rightly. Truly You are the Almighty, the All-Wise.’ sons, or his wife or his brother or his family who
(40:8) sheltered him or everyone else on earth, if that
(Believers will be told,) ‘Enter the Garden, you only meant that he could save himself. (70:10-
and your wives, delighting in your joy.’ (43:70) 14)
If any of your wives rejoin the disbelievers, you (Believers are) those who guard their chastity ex-
should have compensation. So repay to those cept from their wives and any slaves they own, in
whose wives have gone the dowry they paid out. which case they incur no blame. (70:29-30)
Have fear of Allah–Him in Whom you believe. (A band of the jinn said,) "He–exalted be the
(60:11) Majesty of our Lord!–has neither wife nor son."
You who believe! Some of your wives and chil- (72:3)
dren are an enemy to you, so be wary of them. When the Deafening Blast comes, the Day a man
But if you pardon and exonerate and forgive, will flee from his brother and his mother and his
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (64:14) father, and his wife and his children: on that Day
O Prophet! Why do you make forbidden what every man among them will have concerns
Allah has made lawful for you, seeking to please enough of his own. (80:33-37)
your wives? Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Ruin to the hands of Abu Lahab and ruin to him!
Merciful. (66:1) His wealth has not helped him nor anything he
The Prophet confided a certain matter to one of has earned. He will burn in a Flaming Fire. And
his wives, then when she divulged it Allah dis- so will his wife, the firewood-carrier, with a rope
closed that to him, and he communicated part of of twisted fibre round her neck. (111:1-5)
it and withheld part of it. When he told her of it,
she said, ‘Who told you of this?’ He said, ‘The WIND
All-Knowing and All-Aware informed me of it.’ In the creation of the heavens and earth, and the
(66:3) alternation of the night and day, and the ships
If the two of you (Prophet’s wives) would only which sail the seas to people’s benefit, and the
turn to Allah, for your hearts clearly deviated... water which Allah sends down from the sky–by
But if you support one another against him, Allah which He brings the earth to life when it was
is his Protector and so are Gabriel and every dead and scatters about in it creatures of every
right-acting man of the believers and, further- kind–and the varying direction of the winds, and
more, the angels too will come to his support. the clouds subservient between heaven and
(66:4) earth, there are Signs for people who use their in-
It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord tellect. (2:164)
will give him in exchange better wives than you: The metaphor of what they spend in their life in
Muslim women, believing women, obedient this world is that of a wind with an icy bite to it
women, penitent women, women who worship, which strikes the crops of a people who have
women who fast much–previously married wronged themselves and destroys them. Allah
women as well as virgins. (66:5) did not wrong them; rather it was themselves
Allah has made an example for those who disbe- they were wronging. (3:117)
lieve: the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut. They It is He Who sends out the winds, bringing ad-
were married to two of Our servants who were vance news of His mercy, so that when they have
righteous but they betrayed them and were not lifted up the heavy clouds, We dispatch them to a
helped at all against Allah. They were told, ‘Enter dead land and send down water to it, by means
the Fire along with all who enter it.’ (66:10) of which We bring forth all kinds of fruit. In the
(On that Day) no good friend will ask about his same way We will bring forth the dead, so that
friend even though they can see each other. An hopefully you will pay heed. (7:57)
evildoer will wish he could ransom himself from It is He Who conveys you on both land and sea
the punishment of that Day, by means of his so that when some of you are on a boat, running
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