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Fasting in Ramadan
Explains fasting, why it is prescribed, who must fast, who can make it up later, Ramadan as the month of the Qur'an, and basic rules around eating, drinking, and family life at night.
Marriage and Faith Choices
Gives guidance about marriage and choosing spouses based on faith instead of attraction, status, or social pressure.
Cleanliness and Married Life
Gives private family guidance about menstruation, cleanliness, and intimacy between husband and wife.
Oaths and Marital Separation
Teaches people not to use Allah's name in careless oaths and gives rules for marital separation when a husband distances himself from his wife.
Divorce, Waiting Periods, and Fair Treatment
Gives rules for divorce, waiting periods, reconciliation, nursing children, dowry, and fair treatment between husband and wife.
Widows, Divorce, and Kindness After Separation
Gives guidance about caring for widows and treating divorced women with fairness, support, and dignity.
Taking Care of Orphans and Their Property
Gives rules about protecting orphans' money, not taking what belongs to them, and warning against eating their wealth unfairly.
Treating Women Fairly in Marriage
Tells men not to mistreat women, force them, or take back gifts unfairly. Marriage should have respect, fairness, and kindness.
Who People Cannot Marry
Lists close family relationships that are not allowed for marriage, protecting family structure and clear boundaries.
Marriage Rules and Choosing Lawful Relationships
Explains who can be married, the importance of proper marriage, giving women their due rights, and choosing lawful relationships instead of secret or careless ones.
Solving Serious Marriage Problems
Gives guidance for handling serious problems between husband and wife, including family help when the marriage needs fixing.
Women, Orphans, and Fair Treatment in Families
Gives more guidance about treating women and orphan girls fairly, especially in marriage, family duties, and separation if peace cannot be kept.
Food Rules and Completing the Religion
Lists forbidden foods, allows good food, mentions food of the People of the Book, and declares that Allah has completed the religion for believers.
Examples That Show Allah Has No Equal
Reminds that Allah gives provision, spouses, children and grandchildren, yet people worship what provides nothing. Gives examples of a powerless slave and a generous free man, and a helpless man and a just one.
Punishments for Zina and False Accusation
Sets the punishment of lashes for unlawful sexual relations and for accusing chaste women without four witnesses. A husband who accuses his wife without witnesses swears five oaths, and she may swear five in reply.
Encouraging Marriage and Freeing Slaves
Tells believers to help the unmarried and righteous slaves marry, and those without means to stay chaste. Slaves seeking freedom by contract should be helped, and no slave girl may be forced into prostitution.
Lut Warns His People
Lut condemns his people for approaching men and leaving the wives Allah created for them. They threaten to expel him, so Allah saves him and his family, except an old woman, and rains stones on them.
Musa in Madyan and His Marriage
In Madyan Musa waters the flocks of two women and prays to Allah in need. Their father invites him and offers him a daughter in marriage for eight or ten years of work.
Among His Signs
Lists Allah's signs: humans made from dust, spouses with love and mercy, varied languages and colours, sleep, lightning and rain, and the heavens standing by His command until He calls everyone forth.
Adopted Children and the Prophet's Household
The Prophet ﷺ must follow revelation, not disbelievers and hypocrites. Wives declared 'mothers' are not mothers, adopted sons keep their fathers' names, the Prophet's wives are like mothers to believers, and relatives inherit first.
The Choice Given to the Prophet's Wives
The Prophet ﷺ tells his wives to choose between worldly life, with a gracious release, or Allah, His Messenger and the Hereafter. Any clear immorality from them would bring double punishment.
Zayd, the Prophet's Marriage, and the Seal of Prophets
Says believers have no choice once Allah and His Messenger decide a matter. Tells how Allah married the Prophet ﷺ to Zayd's former wife, ending blame over adopted sons' wives, and calls him the seal of the prophets.
Marriage Rules for Believers and the Prophet
Says a woman divorced before the marriage is consummated has no waiting period and should be given provision. Sets out which women are lawful for the Prophet ﷺ to marry, then forbids him any additional wives.
The Tree of Zaqqum and the Secure Gardens
Describes the tree of zaqqum as food for the sinful and scalding water poured on them. The righteous live safely in gardens with silk, spouses and fruit, protected from Hell. The Qur'an is made easy to remember.
Families Reunited in Paradise
Describes the righteous in gardens, eating and drinking in peace, joined by their believing descendants. They remember how they feared Allah among their people and called on Him, and He protected them from the Fire.
The Companions of the Right
Describes the companions of the right among thornless lote trees, layered fruit, long shade and flowing water, on raised couches with companions of equal age. They come from both earlier and later peoples.
Zihar and the Woman Who Pleaded to Allah
Tells that Allah heard a woman pleading about her husband. Declaring a wife to be like one's mother is false speech, and gives the penalty: freeing a slave, fasting two months, or feeding sixty poor people.
Believing Women Who Emigrate and Their Pledge
Gives rules for believing women who emigrate: test their faith, do not return them to disbelieving husbands, and settle dowries. Lists the pledge the Prophet ﷺ accepts from believing women.
Rules for Divorce and the Waiting Period
Gives rules for divorce: count the waiting period, do not expel wives from their homes, bring witnesses, and provide for pregnant and nursing women. Promises a way out to those who fear Allah.
The Prophet and His Wives
Asks the Prophet ﷺ why he forbade himself something lawful to please his wives. Tells how a secret he shared was revealed, and urges two wives to repent, naming Allah, Jibril, and the angels as his supporters.