Lesson 20 – "Verily, among your wives and your children there are enemies for you, therefore beware of them!"

2022-04-21

In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Dear noble brothers, we are discussing a new lesson of this series about the Ayaat that start with, "O you who believe…", and today's Ayah is:

(O you who believe! Verily, among your wives and your children there are enemies for you (i.e.may stop you from the obedience of Allah), therefore beware of them! But if you pardon (them) and overlook, and forgive (their faults), then verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful* Your wealth and your children are only a trial, whereas Allah! With Him is a great reward (Paradise)* So keep your duty to Allah and fear Him as much as you can; listen and obey; and spend in charity, that is better for yourselves. And whosoever is saved from his own covetousness, then they are the successful ones.)

[Al-Taghabun, 14-16]

This Ayah is revealed due to a certain incident. When the noble companions decided to emigrate with the Prophet PBUH, some of the wives were angry, they complained and rejected to emigrate, and thus their husbands' response was very violent, so this Ayah is revealed to tell us:

(But if you pardon (them) and overlook, and forgive (their faults), then verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.)

[Al-Taghabun, 14]

Jealousy is a normal characteristic of the woman.

(The Prophet was with one of the Mothers of the Believers when another one sent a wooden bowl in which was some food. She struck the hand of the Prophet and the bowl fell and broke. The Prophet picked up the two pieces and put them together, then he started to gather up the food and said, "Your mother got jealous, your mother got jealous.")

(Verily, among your wives and your children there are enemies for you, therefore beware of them!)

[Al-Taghabun, 14]

Some interpreters said that this enmity is in the Hereafter.

nmity has two kinds: the first one is circumstantial (in worldly life), while the other one is in the Hereafter.

This is an example of the enmity in the Hereafter. If a wife kept pushing her husband to change the furniture of the house despite the fact that his financial means are limited, and due to her constant pressure, he took ill-gotten money to satisfy her, on the Day of Resurrection, he will be severely reckoned for taking that money, and since his wife is the reason behind this, he will hold enmity against her in the Hereafter. This enmity is different from the circumstantial one in the worldly life.

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