At-Tahrim التحريم

Madani · 12 ayat · 12 with pondering

• Ayah 1Even the kindest wish to keep peace at home has a limit, and the Prophet ﷺ is shown it with a question, not a rebuke.
• Ayah 2Right after being corrected, the Prophet ﷺ is called Allah's charge — and shown that every regretted vow already has a legislated way out.
• Ayah 3Even knowing the full truth, the Prophet ﷺ told her only part of it — and pointed to Allah, not to whoever had told him.
• Ayah 4If two people who love you put their backs together against you, Allah's own backing is simply larger — Himself, Gabriel, every righteous believer, and…
• Ayah 5A warning framed as a hypothetical replacement was never a plan to carry out — and the fact it never did is itself proof of what these women already were.
• Ayah 6Guarding your own soul from the Fire was only ever half the instruction; the harder, easily skipped half is the people who share your roof.
• Ayah 7The one day an excuse has always worked, on some level, with someone — turns out to be the one day it works with no one at all.
• Ayah 8Repentance was never meant to be a patch thrown over a tear; it is a stitching that leaves the soul whole again, with nothing left open.
• Ayah 9The word often heard as a call to arms names, first, effort spent to its very limit — against an enemy, temptation, and yourself.
• Ayah 10Nearness to two of the most righteous men who ever lived could not stand in for belief of their own — each soul answers entirely on its own standing.
• Ayah 11Married to the most tyrannical disbeliever in history, she was not harmed by his unbelief in the slightest — the same individual accounting that spared no…
• Ayah 12A surah that opened with one household's private correction closes on a single woman's guarded integrity, active belief and lived obedience.