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reverence Allah through Whom ye demand your mutual (rights) and (reverence) the wombs
(that bore you): for Allah ever watches over you. 504505506
505 All our mutual rights and duties are referred to Allah. We are His creatures: His Will is the standard and measure of
Allah; and our duties are measured by our conformity with His Will. "Our wills are ours, to make them Thine," says
Tennyson (In Memoriam). Among ourselves (human beings) our mutual rights and duties arise out of Allah's Law, the
sense of Right that is implanted in us by Him. (4.1)
506 Among the most wonderful mysteries of our nature is that of sex. The unregenerate male is apt, in the pride of his
physical strength, to forget the all-important part which the female plays in his very existence, and in all the social
relationships that arise in our collective human lives. The mother that bore us must ever have our reverence. The wife,
through whom we enter parentage, must have our reverence. Sex, which governs so much of our physical life, and
has so much influence on our emotional and higher nature, deserves-not our fear, or our contempt, or our amused
indulgence, but-our reverence in the highest sense of the term. With this fitting introduction we enter on a discussion
of women, orphans, and family relationships. (4.1)
4:119 - "I will mislead them and I will create in them false desires; I will order them to slit the ears of
cattle and to deface the (fair) nature created by Allah." Whoever forsaking Allah takes Satan
for a friend hath of a surety suffered a loss that is manifest. 629630631
629 Satan's deceptions are with false desires, false superstitions, and false fears. (4.119)
630 Slitting the ears of cattle is just one instance of the superstitions to which men become slaves when they run after
false gods. Astrology, magic, and vain beliefs in things that do not exist lead men away from Allah, the one true God.
(4.119)
631 To deface the (fair) nature created by Allah; there is both a physical and a spiritual meaning. We see many kinds of
defacements practised on men and animals, against their true nature as created by Allah, partly on account of
superstition, partly on account of selfishness. Spiritually the case is even worse. How many natures are dwarfed or
starved and turned from their original instincts by cruel superstitions or customs? Allah created man pure: Satan
defaces the image. (4.119)
7:189 - It is He who created you from a single person and made his mate of like nature in order
that he might dwell with her (in love). When they are united she bears a light burden and
carries it about (unnoticed). When she grows heavy they both pray to Allah their Lord
(saying): "if Thou givest us a goodly child we vow we shall (ever) be grateful." 116211631164
1163 The mystery of the physical birth of man, as it affects the father and the mother, only touches the imagination of the
parents in the later stages when the child is yet unborn and yet the life stirs within the body of the expectant mother.
The coming of the new life is a solemn thing, and is fraught with much hope as well as much unknown risk to the
mother herself. The parents in their anxiety turn to Allah. If this feeling of solemnity, hope, and looking towards Allah
were maintained after birth, all would be well for the parents as well as for the rising generation. But the attitude
changes, as the verses following show. (7.189)
16:72 - And Allah has made for you mates (and companions) of your own nature. And made for you
out of them sons and daughters and grandchildren and provided for you sustenance of the
best: will they then believe in vain things and be ungrateful for Allah's favors? 21032104
2103 Of your nature: or of yourselves. Cf. iv. 1 and n. 504, Self, or Personality, or Soul, all imply a bundle of attributes,
capacities, predilections, and dispositions, which we may sum up in the word Nafs, or nature. Woman was made to be
(1) a mate or companion for man; (2) except for sex, of the same nature as man, and therefore, with the same moral
and religious rights and duties; and (3) she is not to be considered a source of all evil or sin, as the Christian monks
characterised her but rather as a blessing, one of the favours (Ni'mat) of Allah. (16.72)
2104 Hafadat: collective plural, grandchildren, and descendants. The root hafada also implies obedient service and
ministration. Just as the sons (first mentioned) should be a source of strength, so daughters and grandchildren should
serve and contribute to the happiness of fathers and grandparents, and are to be looked upon as further blessings.
(16.72)
17:81 - And say: "Truth has (now) arrived and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature)
bound to perish." 2281
2281 From its nature falsehood must perish, for it is the opposite of Truth, and Truth must ever prevail. (17.81)
24:41 - Seest thou not that it is Allah Whose praises all beings in the heavens and on earth do
celebrate and the birds (of the air) with wings outspread? Each one knows its own (mode of)
prayer and praise. And Allah knows well all that they do. 30163017
3016 Cf. xxi. 19-20. (24.41)
3017 All denizens of the heavens, such as angels, all denizens of the earth (including the waters) such as man, animals,
insects, fishes, etc., and all denizens of the air, such as birds, celebrate the praises of Allah. Each has his own mode
of prayer and praise. It is not necessarily with words, for language (as we know it) is peculiar to man. But actions and
other modes of self-expression recognise and declare the Glory of Allah. (24.41)
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