004- AL-NISĀʾ
WOMEN
Al-Nisāʾ
Al-Nisāʾ was revealed in Madinah around the fourth year of the hijrah and after the crucial Battle of Uḥud, which took place outside of Madinah between the Muslims and the still idolatrous Quraysh of Makkah. It takes its name from the fact that much of the sūrah deals with women and their rights along with various conditions of marriage, marital relations, and laws of inheritance. Most of the first part (vv. 1–36, 127–30, 176) is legislative in nature, as is the section dealing with war and peace and how Muslims should act in these situations. Altogether this sūrah is among the most important and fundamental for Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh).
The sūrah also deals with the status of the hypocrites (munāfiqūn) and those Jews who turned against the Islamic community in Madinah after the Battle of Uḥud (3/625), in which the Muslims suffered defeat at the hands of the Quraysh. Moreover, there are many verses in this sūrah dealing with those Jews who denied both Christianity and Islam and the Christians who divinized Jesus (vv. 44–55, 153–73). The most sensitive verses from the point of view of relations between Christianity and Islam concern the Islamic view of the end of the earthly life of Jesus and the question of his crucifixion (vv. 157–59).
After a long discussion on such general religious issues, the sūrah ends with a verse again related to legislative matters. It seems that the Quran wants to emphasize at the termination of this long sūrah the inseparable relation between Islamic religious beliefs and the social behavior of Muslims based on revealed Law.
(source: “The Study Quran” a new translation and commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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