| Tafsir Ibn Kathir -> Surah An-Nisa |
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Topic |
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(Chapter 4) |
| 1 |
Virtues of Surat An-Nisa, A Madinan Surah |
| 2, 3, 4 |
The Command to have Taqwa, a Reminder about Creation, and Being Kind to Relatives |
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Protecting the Property of the Orphans |
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The Prohibition of Marrying Female Orphans Without Giving a Dowry |
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The Permission to Marry Four Women |
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Marrying Only One Wife When One Fears He Might not Do Justice to His Wives |
| 5, 6 |
Giving the Dowry is Obligatory |
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Holding the Property of the Unwise in Escrow |
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Spending on the Unwise with Fairness |
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Giving Back the Property of the Orphans When They Reach Adulthood |
| 7, 8, 9, 10 |
Poor Caretakers are Allowed to Wisely Spend from the Money of the Orphan Under Their Care, to Compensate for Their Work |
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The Necessity of Surrendering the Inheritance According to the Portions that Allah Ordained |
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Observing Fairness in the Will |
| 11 |
A Stern Warning Against Those Who Use Up the Orphan's Wealth |
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Learning the Various Shares of the Inheritance is Encouraged |
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The Reason Behind Revealing Ayah 4:11 |
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Males Get Two Times the Share of Females for Inheritance |
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The Share of the Females When They Are the Only Eligible Heirs |
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Share of the Parents in the Inheritance |
| 12 |
First the Debts are Paid Off, then the Will, then the Fixed Inheritance |
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Share of the Spouses in the Inheritance |
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The Meaning of Kalalah |
| 13, 14 |
The Ruling Concerning Children of the Mother From Other Than the Deceased's Father |
| 15, 16 |
Warning Against Transgressing the Limits for Inheritance |
| 17, 18 |
The Adulteress is Confined in her House; A Command Later Abrogated |
| 19, 20, 21, 22 |
Repentance is Accepted Until one Faces death |
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Meaning of `Inheriting Women Against Their Will |
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Women Should not Be Treated with Harshness |
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Live With Women Honorably |
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The Prohibition of Taking Back the Dowry |
| 23 |
Marrying the Wife of the Father is Prohibited |
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Degrees of Women Never Eligible for One to Marry |
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`Suckling' that Establishes Prohibition for Marriage |
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The Stepdaughter is Prohibited in Marriage Even if She Was Not Under the Guardianship of Her Stepfather |
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Meaning of `gone in unto them |
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Prohibiting the Daughter-in-Law for Marriage |
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A Doubt and Rebuttal |
| 24 |
The Prohibition of Taking Two Sisters as Rival Wives |
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Forbidding Women Already Married, Except for Female Slaves |
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The Permission to Marry All Other Women |
| 25 |
Prohibiting the Mut`ah of Marriage |
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Marrying a Female Slave, if One Cannot Marry a Free Woman |
| 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 |
The Slave Girl's Punishment for Adultery is Half that of a Free Unmarried Woman |
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Prohibiting Unlawfully Earned Money |
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The Option to Buy or Sell Before Parting, is Part of `Mutual Consent' in Trading |
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Forbidding Murder and Suicide |
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Minor Sins Will be Pardoned if One Refrains from Major Sins |
| 32 |
The Seven Destructive Sins |
| 33, 34 |
Do Not Wish for the Things Which Allah has Made Some Others to Excel In |
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Qualities of the Righteous Wife |
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Dealing with the Wife's Ill-Conduct |
| 35 |
When the Wife Obeys Her Husband, Means of Annoyance Against Her are Prohibited |
| 36 |
Appointing Two Arbitrators When the Possibility of Estrangement Between Husband and Wife Occurs |
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The Order to Worship Allah Alone and to Be Dutiful to Parents |
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The Right of the Neighbor |
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Being Kind to Slaves and Servants |
| 37, 38, 39 |
Allah Does Not Like the Arrogant |
| 40, 41, 42 |
The Censure of Stingy Behavior |
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Allah Wrongs Not Even the Weight of a Speck of Dust |
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Will Punishment be Diminished for the Disbelievers |
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What Does `Great Reward' Mean |
| 43 |
Our Prophet will be a Witness Against, or For his Ummah on the Day of Resurrection, When the Disbelievers Will Wish for Death |
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The Prohibition of Approaching Prayer When Drunk or Junub |
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Causes of Its Revelation |
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Description of Tayammum |
| 44, 45, 46 |
The Reason behind allowing Tayammum |
| 47, 48 |
Chastising the Jews for Choosing Misguidance, Altering Allah's Words, and Mocking Islam |
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Calling the People of the Book to Embrace the Faith, Warning them Against Doing Otherwise |
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Ka`b Al-Ahbar Embraces Islam Upon Hearing this Ayah [4:47] |
| 49, 50, 51, 52 |
Allah Does not Forgive Shirk, Except After Repenting From it |
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Chastising and Cursing the Jews for Claiming Purity for Themselves and Believing in Jibt and Taghut |
| 53, 54, 55 |
Disbelievers Are not Better Guided Than Believers |
| 56, 57 |
The Envy and Miserly Conduct of the Jews |
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The Punishment of Those Who Disbelieve in Allah's Books and Messengers |
| 58 |
The Wealth of the Righteous; Paradise and its Joy |
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The Command to Return the Trusts to Whomever They Are Due |
| 59 |
The Order to Be Just |
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The Necessity of Obeying the Rulers in Obedience to Allah |
| 60, 61, 62, 63 |
The Necessity of Referring to the Qur'an and Sunnah for Judgment |
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Referring to Other than the Qur'an and Sunnah for Judgment is Characteristic of Non-Muslims |
| 64, 65 |
Chastising the Hypocrites |
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The Necessity of Obeying the Messenger |
| 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 |
One Does not Become a Believer Unless He Refers to the Messenger for Judgment and Submits to his Decisions |
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Most People Disobey What They Are Ordered |
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Whoever Obeys Allah and His Messenger Will Be Honored by Allah |
| 71, 72, 73, 74 |
The Reason Behind Revealing this Honorable Ayah |
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The Necessity of Taking Necessary Precautions Against the Enemy |
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Refraining from Joining Jihad is a Sign of Hypocrites |
| 75, 76 |
The Encouragement to Participation in Jihad |
| 77, 78, 79 |
Encouraging Jihad to Defend the Oppressed |
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The Wish that the Order for Jihad be Delayed |
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There is No Escaping Death |
| 80, 81 |
The Hypocrites Sense a Bad Omen Because of the Prophet ! |
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Obeying the Messenger is Obeying Allah |
| 82, 83 |
The Foolishness of the Hypocrites |
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The Qur'an is True |
| 84, 85, 86, 87 |
The Prohibition of Disclosing Unreliable and Uninvestigated News |
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Allah Commands His Messenger to Perform Jihad |
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Inciting the Believers to Fight |
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Interceding for a Good or an Evil Cause |
| 88, 89, 90, 91 |
Returning the Salam, With a Better Salam |
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Censuring the Companions for Disagreeing over the Hypocrites who Returned to Al-Madinah Before Uhud |
| 92, 93 |
Combatants and Noncombatants |
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The Ruling Concerning Killing a Believer by Mistake |
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Warning Against Intentional Murder |
| 94 |
Will the Repentance of those who Commit Intentional Murder, be Accepted |
| 95, 96 |
Greeting with the Salam is a Sign of Islam |
| 97, 98, 99, 100 |
The Mujahid and those Who Do not Join Jihad are Not the Same, [and Jihad is Fard Kifayah] |
| 101 |
The Prohibition of Residing Among the Disbelievers While Able to Emigrate |
| 102 |
Salat Al-Qasr, Shortening the Prayer |
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The Description of The Fear Prayer |
| 103, 104 |
The Reason behind Revealing this Ayah |
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The Order for Ample Remembrance After the Fear Prayer |
| 105, 106, 107, 108, 109 |
The Encouragement to Pursue the Enemy Despite Injuries |
| 110, 111, 112, 113 |
The Necessity of Referring to What Allah has Revealed for Judgement |
| 114, 115 |
The Encouragement to Seek Allah's Forgiveness, and Warning those who Falsely Accuse Innocent People |
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Righteous Najwa, Secret Talk |
| 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122 |
The Punishment for Contradicting and Opposing the Messenger and Following a Path Other than That of the Believers |
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Shirk Shall not be Forgiven, in Reality the Idolators Worship Shaytan |
| 123, 124, 125, 126 |
The Reward of Righteous Believers |
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Success is Only Achieved by Performing Righteous Deeds, not Wishful Thinking |
| 127 |
Ibrahim is Allah's Khalil |
| 128, 129, 130 |
The Ruling Concerning Female Orphans |
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The Ruling Concerning Desertion on the Part of the Husband |
| 131, 132, 133, 134 |
Meaning of |
| 135 |
The Necessity of Taqwa of Allah |
| 136 |
Commanding Justice and Conveying the Witness for Allah |
| 137, 138, 139, 140 |
The Order to Have Faith after Believing |
| 141 |
Characteristics of the Hypocrites and Their Destination |
| 142, 143 |
Hypocrites Wait and Watch what Happens to Muslims |
| 144, 145, 146, 147 |
The Hypocrites Try to Deceive Allah and Sway Between Believers and Disbelievers |
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The Prohibition of Wilayah with the Disbelievers |
| 148, 149 |
The Hypocrites and the Friends of Disbelievers are in the Lowest Depth of the Fire, Unless they Repent |
| 150, 151, 152 |
The Permission to Utter Evil in Public, For One Who Was Wronged |
| 153, 154 |
Believing in Some Prophets and Rejecting Others is Pure Kufr |
| 155, 156, 157, 158, 159 |
The Stubbornness of the Jews |
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The Crimes of the Jews |
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The Evil Accusation the Jews Uttered Against Maryam and Their Claim that They Killed `Isa |
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All Christians Will Believe in `Isa Before He Dies |
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The Hadiths Regarding the Descent of `Isa Just Before the Day of Judgement, and his Mission |
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Another Hadith by Abu Hurayrah |
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Another Hadith |
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Another Hadith |
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Another Hadith |
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Another Hadith |
| 160, 161, 162 |
The Description of `Isa, upon him be Peace |
| 163, 164, 165 |
Some Foods Were Made Unlawful for the Jews Because of their Injustice and Wrongdoing |
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Revelation Came to Prophet Muhammad , Just as it Came to the Prophets Before Him |
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Twenty-Five Prophets Are Mentioned in the Qur'an |
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The Virtue of Musa |
| 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171 |
The Reason Behind Sending the Prophets is to Establish the Proof |
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Prohibiting the People of the Book From Going to Extremes in Religion |
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The Meaning of |
| 172, 173 |
The Christian Sects |
| 174, 175 |
The Prophets and Angels Are Never too Proud to Worship Allah |
| 176 |
The Description of the Revelation that Came From Allah |
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This is the Last Ayah Ever Revealed, the Ruling on Al-Kalalah |
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The Meaning of This Ayah |
