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An-Nisa (Chapter 4) Virtues of Surat An-Nisa, A Madinan Surah The Command to have Taqwa, a Reminder about Creation, and Being Kind to Relatives Protecting the Property of the Orphans The Prohibition of Marrying Female Orphans Without Giving a Dowry The Permission to Marry Four Women Marrying Only One Wife When One Fears He Might not Do Justice to His Wives Giving the Dowry is Obligatory Holding the Property of the Unwise in Escrow Spending on the Unwise with Fairness Giving Back the Property of the Orphans When They Reach Adulthood Poor Caretakers are Allowed to Wisely Spend from the Money of the Orphan Under Their Care, to Compensate for Their Work The Necessity of Surrendering the Inheritance According to the Portions that Allah Ordained Observing Fairness in the Will A Stern Warning Against Those Who Use Up the Orphan's Wealth Learning the Various Shares of the Inheritance is Encouraged The Reason Behind Revealing Ayah 4:11 Males Get Two Times the Share of Females for Inheritance The Share of the Females When They Are the Only Eligible Heirs Share of the Parents in the Inheritance First the Debts are Paid Off, then the Will, then the Fixed Inheritance Share of the Spouses in the Inheritance The Meaning of Kalalah The Ruling Concerning Children of the Mother From Other Than the Deceased's Father Warning Against Transgressing the Limits for Inheritance The Adulteress is Confined in her House; A Command Later Abrogated Repentance is Accepted Until one Faces death Meaning of `Inheriting Women Against Their Will Women Should not Be Treated with Harshness Live With Women Honorably The Prohibition of Taking Back the Dowry Marrying the Wife of the Father is Prohibited Degrees of Women Never Eligible for One to Marry `Suckling' that Establishes Prohibition for Marriage The Stepdaughter is Prohibited in Marriage Even if She Was Not Under the Guardianship of Her Stepfather Meaning of `gone in unto them Prohibiting the Daughter-in-Law for Marriage A Doubt and Rebuttal The Prohibition of Taking Two Sisters as Rival Wives Forbidding Women Already Married, Except for Female Slaves The Permission to Marry All Other Women Prohibiting the Mut`ah of Marriage Marrying a Female Slave, if One Cannot Marry a Free Woman The Slave Girl's Punishment for Adultery is Half that of a Free Unmarried Woman Prohibiting Unlawfully Earned Money The Option to Buy or Sell Before Parting, is Part of `Mutual Consent' in Trading Forbidding Murder and Suicide Minor Sins Will be Pardoned if One Refrains from Major Sins The Seven Destructive Sins Do Not Wish for the Things Which Allah has Made Some Others to Excel In Qualities of the Righteous Wife Dealing with the Wife's Ill-Conduct When the Wife Obeys Her Husband, Means of Annoyance Against Her are Prohibited Appointing Two Arbitrators When the Possibility of Estrangement Between Husband and Wife Occurs The Order to Worship Allah Alone and to Be Dutiful to Parents The Right of the Neighbor Being Kind to Slaves and Servants Allah Does Not Like the Arrogant The Censure of Stingy Behavior Allah Wrongs Not Even the Weight of a Speck of Dust Will Punishment be Diminished for the Disbelievers What Does `Great Reward' Mean Our Prophet will be a Witness Against, or For his Ummah on the Day of Resurrection, When the Disbelievers Will Wish for Death The Prohibition of Approaching Prayer When Drunk or Junub Causes of Its Revelation Description of Tayammum The Reason behind allowing Tayammum Chastising the Jews for Choosing Misguidance, Altering Allah's Words, and Mocking Islam Calling the People of the Book to Embrace the Faith, Warning them Against Doing Otherwise Ka`b Al-Ahbar Embraces Islam Upon Hearing this Ayah [4:47] Allah Does not Forgive Shirk, Except After Repenting From it Chastising and Cursing the Jews for Claiming Purity for Themselves and Believing in Jibt and Taghut Disbelievers Are not Better Guided Than Believers The Envy and Miserly Conduct of the Jews The Punishment of Those Who Disbelieve in Allah's Books and Messengers The Wealth of the Righteous; Paradise and its Joy The Command to Return the Trusts to Whomever They Are Due The Order to Be Just The Necessity of Obeying the Rulers in Obedience to Allah The Necessity of Referring to the Qur'an and Sunnah for Judgment Referring to Other than the Qur'an and Sunnah for Judgment is Characteristic of Non-Muslims Chastising the Hypocrites The Necessity of Obeying the Messenger One Does not Become a Believer Unless He Refers to the Messenger for Judgment and Submits to his Decisions Most People Disobey What They Are Ordered Whoever Obeys Allah and His Messenger Will Be Honored by Allah The Reason Behind Revealing this Honorable Ayah The Necessity of Taking Necessary Precautions Against the Enemy Refraining from Joining Jihad is a Sign of Hypocrites The Encouragement to Participation in Jihad Encouraging Jihad to Defend the Oppressed The Wish that the Order for Jihad be Delayed There is No Escaping Death The Hypocrites Sense a Bad Omen Because of the Prophet ! Obeying the Messenger is Obeying Allah The Foolishness of the Hypocrites The Qur'an is True The Prohibition of Disclosing Unreliable and Uninvestigated News Allah Commands His Messenger to Perform Jihad Inciting the Believers to Fight Interceding for a Good or an Evil Cause Returning the Salam, With a Better Salam Censuring the Companions for Disagreeing over the Hypocrites who Returned to Al-Madinah Before Uhud Combatants and Noncombatants The Ruling Concerning Killing a Believer by Mistake Warning Against Intentional Murder Will the Repentance of those who Commit Intentional Murder, be Accepted Greeting with the Salam is a Sign of Islam The Mujahid and those Who Do not Join Jihad are Not the Same, [and Jihad is Fard Kifayah] The Prohibition of Residing Among the Disbelievers While Able to Emigrate Salat Al-Qasr, Shortening the Prayer The Description of The Fear Prayer The Reason behind Revealing this Ayah The Order for Ample Remembrance After the Fear Prayer The Encouragement to Pursue the Enemy Despite Injuries The Necessity of Referring to What Allah has Revealed for Judgement The Encouragement to Seek Allah's Forgiveness, and Warning those who Falsely Accuse Innocent People Righteous Najwa, Secret Talk The Punishment for Contradicting and Opposing the Messenger and Following a Path Other than That of the Believers Shirk Shall not be Forgiven, in Reality the Idolators Worship Shaytan The Reward of Righteous Believers Success is Only Achieved by Performing Righteous Deeds, not Wishful Thinking Ibrahim is Allah's Khalil The Ruling Concerning Female Orphans The Ruling Concerning Desertion on the Part of the Husband Meaning of The Necessity of Taqwa of Allah Commanding Justice and Conveying the Witness for Allah The Order to Have Faith after Believing Characteristics of the Hypocrites and Their Destination Hypocrites Wait and Watch what Happens to Muslims The Hypocrites Try to Deceive Allah and Sway Between Believers and Disbelievers The Prohibition of Wilayah with the Disbelievers The Hypocrites and the Friends of Disbelievers are in the Lowest Depth of the Fire, Unless they Repent The Permission to Utter Evil in Public, For One Who Was Wronged Believing in Some Prophets and Rejecting Others is Pure Kufr The Stubbornness of the Jews The Crimes of the Jews The Evil Accusation the Jews Uttered Against Maryam and Their Claim that They Killed `Isa All Christians Will Believe in `Isa Before He Dies The Hadiths Regarding the Descent of `Isa Just Before the Day of Judgement, and his Mission Another Hadith by Abu Hurayrah Another Hadith Another Hadith Another Hadith Another Hadith The Description of `Isa, upon him be Peace Some Foods Were Made Unlawful for the Jews Because of their Injustice and Wrongdoing Revelation Came to Prophet Muhammad , Just as it Came to the Prophets Before Him Twenty-Five Prophets Are Mentioned in the Qur'an The Virtue of Musa The Reason Behind Sending the Prophets is to Establish the Proof Prohibiting the People of the Book From Going to Extremes in Religion The Meaning of The Christian Sects The Prophets and Angels Are Never too Proud to Worship Allah The Description of the Revelation that Came From Allah This is the Last Ayah Ever Revealed, the Ruling on Al-Kalalah The Meaning of This Ayah