Al-Quran - The Miracle of Miracles [ deedat]

(HOLY QUR'AN 2:235)
GOD'S FINGERPRINT
"Do not resolve to the tying of the marriage knot till the fixed period of waiting is over."
This is not Muhummed's (pbuh) cleverness! This is the Wisdom of the All-Wise God.
The Omniscient Creator knows the weaknesses of his creatures. Man in his greed and
cupidity will take unfair advantage of the poor distraught widow. She has just lost her
backbone and support the bread-winner. She has a number of little mouths to feed and
she has also perhaps lost her looks and value in the marriage market has diminished. She
is likely to clutch at any straw. In her emotional, unsettled condition when a predator
makes the proposal. In her haste and insecurity she might readily accept. The Master
Psychologist (not Muhummed pbuh) is fully aware of, all the snares laid by men. Hence
the warning - "NO CONTRACT until the appointed term is fulfilled!"
The 'iddat' 61 after a divorce is three months. Here she is given an extra 40 days to regain
her equilibrium and equanimity. In the meantime, if suggestions of marriage had come,
she would have the opportunity of discussing the matter dispassionately with her friends
and relatives. She could avoid the pitfalls of a hasty acceptance with a long drawn out
and painful development.
Did Muhummed (pbuh) think and work-out all these ramifications in the desert fourteen
hundred years ago? Alas, you give him too much credit! He is made to repeat again and
again that the Qur'anic Wisdom is not of his making, "It is no less than an inspiration
sent down to him 62 by his Benevolent Creator. If you still doubt his testimony then meet
his challenge. He is made to say:
61 'Iddat': period of waiting after divorce or after bereavement.
62 Holy Qur'an 53:4
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