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الاثنين، 30 يوليو 2012
الأحد، 8 يوليو 2012
Your wives are your tilth
نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ
أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ وَقَدِّمُوا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ
وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّكُمْ
مُلَاقُوهُ وَبَشِّرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
﴿2:223﴾
(2:223) Your wives are your tilth : so you may
go to your tilth as you please, *241
but you should take care of your future *242
and refrain from the displeasure of Allah. Know
it well that One Day you shall meet Him. (O
Prophet !) bear good tidings to the Believers.
*241. That is, God's purpose in the creation of
women is not merely to provide men with
recreation. Their mutual relationship is like
that between a farmer and his tilth. A farmer
approaches his field not just for the sake of
pleasure, but to acquire produce. Similarly, man
ought to approach the tilth of the human race
with the purpose of acquiring produce, that is,
offspring. What is of concern to the Law of God
is not the particular mode of cultivating one's
tilth, but rather that one should go only to
one's tilth and not elsewhere, and that one
should go there for the purpose of cultivation.
*242. These words are susceptible to two meanings. First, that a person should try to maintain the continuity of the human race so that when he departs from this world there should be others to replace him in his tasks. Second, that one should be concerned with the quality of the coming generation, i.e., how far it is endowed with religious devotion, moral excellence and humanity, and that one should do all that is possible to promote these qualities. The latter part ot the verse contains the warning that those who deliberately neglect these two duties will he severly taken to task by God.
*242. These words are susceptible to two meanings. First, that a person should try to maintain the continuity of the human race so that when he departs from this world there should be others to replace him in his tasks. Second, that one should be concerned with the quality of the coming generation, i.e., how far it is endowed with religious devotion, moral excellence and humanity, and that one should do all that is possible to promote these qualities. The latter part ot the verse contains the warning that those who deliberately neglect these two duties will he severly taken to task by God.
Islam calls for mercy and affection between husband and wife
وَمِنْ آَيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ
أَنْفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا لِتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْهَا
وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَكُمْ مَوَدَّةً وَرَحْمَةً إِنَّ
فِي ذَلِكَ لَآَيَاتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
﴿30:21﴾
And of His Signs is that He has created
mates for you from your own kind *28
that you may find peace in them *29
and He has set between you love and mercy. *30
Surely there are Signs in this for those who
reflect.
(30:21)
(30:21)
*28 That is, "The Creator's perfect wisdom is
such that He has not created man in one sex only
but in two sexes, which are identical in
humanity, which have the same basic formula of
their figure and form, but the two have been
created with different physical structures,
different mental and psychological qualities,
and different emotions and desires. And then
there has been created such a wonderful harmony
between the two that each is a perfect
counterpart of the other. The physical and
psychological demands of the one match squarely
with the physical and psychological demands of
the other. Moreover, the Wise Creator is
continuously creating the members of the two
sexes in such a proportion since the dawn of the
creation that in no nation and in no region has
it ever happened that only boys or only girls
may have been born. This is one thing in which
human intelligence has absolutely no part to
play. Man cannot at aII influence the course of
nature according to which girls continue to be
born with the feminine qualities and the boys
with the masculine qualities, which are
perfectly complimentary to each other, nor has
he any means by which he may change the
proportion in which men and women continue to be
born everywhere in the world. The working of
this system and' arrangement so harmoniously and
perpetually in the birth of millions and
billions of human beings since thousands of
years cannot be accidental either, nor the
result of the. common will of many gods. This is
a clear indication of the reality that One Wise
Creator and One only, in the beginning made a
most appropriate design of a man and a woman by
His Infinite Wisdom and Power and then made
arrangements that precisely in accordance with
that design countless men and countless women
should be born along with their separate
individual qualities in the right proportion."
*29 That is, "This system has not come about by chance, but the Creator has brought it about deliberately with the object that the man should find fulfilment of the demands of his nature with the woman and the woman. with the man, and the two should find peace and satisfaction in association and attachment with each other. This is the wise arrangement which the Creator has made the means of the survival of the human race, on the one hand, and of bringing the human civilization into existence, on the other. If the two sexes had been created on different patterns and designs, and the state of agitation which changes into peace and tranquillity only through union and attachment between the two had not been placed in each, the human race might have survived like sheep and goats, but there was no possibility of the birth of a civilization. Contrary to all other species of animal life; the fundamental factor that has helped create human civilization is that the Creator by His wisdom has placed a desire and a thirst and a lodging in the two sexes for each other, which remains unsatisfied unless the two live in complete attachment and association with each other. This same desire for peace and satisfaction compelled them to make a home together. This same desire brought families and clans into being, and this same desire made social life possible for man. In the development of social life man's mental capabilities have certainly been helpful, but they were not its real motives. The real motivating force was the same longing with which man and woman were endowed and which compelled them to establish the '"home". Can anyone possessed of common sense say that this masterpiece of wisdom has come about by chance through the blind forces of nature? Or, that it has been arranged so by many gods, and countless men and women have been continuously coming into being with the same natural longing since thousands of years? This is a Sign of the wisdom of One Wise Being, and of One only, which the people devoid of common sense only can refuse to acknowledge.
*30 "Love" here means sexual love, which becomes the initial motive for attraction between man and woman, and then keeps them attached to each other. "Mercy" implies the spiritual relationship which gradually develops in the matrimonial life, by virtue of which they become kindly, affectionate and sympathetic towards each other; so much so that in old age, sexual love falls into the background and the two partners in life prove to be even more compassionate towards each other than they were when young. These two are the positive forces which the Creator has created in man to support the initial longing of his nature. That longing and restlessness only seeks peace and satisfaction and brings the man and the woman into contact with each other. After that these two forces emerge and bind the two strangers brought up in different environments so intimately together that the two remain attached to each other through every thick and thin of life. Evidently, this love and mercy which is being experienced by millions and millions of people in their lives, is not anything material, which may be weighed and measured, nor can it be traced back to any of the constituent element of human body, nor the cause of it birth and growth found out in a laboratory. The only explanation of this can be that the human self has ban endowed with it by a Wise Creator, Who has done so of His own will to serve a special purpose.
*29 That is, "This system has not come about by chance, but the Creator has brought it about deliberately with the object that the man should find fulfilment of the demands of his nature with the woman and the woman. with the man, and the two should find peace and satisfaction in association and attachment with each other. This is the wise arrangement which the Creator has made the means of the survival of the human race, on the one hand, and of bringing the human civilization into existence, on the other. If the two sexes had been created on different patterns and designs, and the state of agitation which changes into peace and tranquillity only through union and attachment between the two had not been placed in each, the human race might have survived like sheep and goats, but there was no possibility of the birth of a civilization. Contrary to all other species of animal life; the fundamental factor that has helped create human civilization is that the Creator by His wisdom has placed a desire and a thirst and a lodging in the two sexes for each other, which remains unsatisfied unless the two live in complete attachment and association with each other. This same desire for peace and satisfaction compelled them to make a home together. This same desire brought families and clans into being, and this same desire made social life possible for man. In the development of social life man's mental capabilities have certainly been helpful, but they were not its real motives. The real motivating force was the same longing with which man and woman were endowed and which compelled them to establish the '"home". Can anyone possessed of common sense say that this masterpiece of wisdom has come about by chance through the blind forces of nature? Or, that it has been arranged so by many gods, and countless men and women have been continuously coming into being with the same natural longing since thousands of years? This is a Sign of the wisdom of One Wise Being, and of One only, which the people devoid of common sense only can refuse to acknowledge.
*30 "Love" here means sexual love, which becomes the initial motive for attraction between man and woman, and then keeps them attached to each other. "Mercy" implies the spiritual relationship which gradually develops in the matrimonial life, by virtue of which they become kindly, affectionate and sympathetic towards each other; so much so that in old age, sexual love falls into the background and the two partners in life prove to be even more compassionate towards each other than they were when young. These two are the positive forces which the Creator has created in man to support the initial longing of his nature. That longing and restlessness only seeks peace and satisfaction and brings the man and the woman into contact with each other. After that these two forces emerge and bind the two strangers brought up in different environments so intimately together that the two remain attached to each other through every thick and thin of life. Evidently, this love and mercy which is being experienced by millions and millions of people in their lives, is not anything material, which may be weighed and measured, nor can it be traced back to any of the constituent element of human body, nor the cause of it birth and growth found out in a laboratory. The only explanation of this can be that the human self has ban endowed with it by a Wise Creator, Who has done so of His own will to serve a special purpose.
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