Surat An-Nisa' (1-10)

Surat An-Nisa' 

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

 {يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ مِنْ نَفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالًا كَثِيرًا وَنِسَاءً وَاتَّقُوا اللهَ الَّذِي تَسَاءَلُونَ بِهِ وَالأَرْحَامَ إِنَّ اللهَ كَانَ عَلَيْكُمْ رَقِيبًا} [النساء: 1]

1- O people, obey Allah, beware of disobeying His Commands, and fear His Torment. It is He Who created you from one soul, Adam, and created thereof his wife Eve from his rib and brought forth from them many males and females.

Fear Allah be obeying Him because from Him you ask for your requests and say: O Allah, I ask you.

Beware of cutting the ties of kinship because Allah is Watchful over you, All-knowing of your intentions, and knows the sayings and actions you do and He shall reward or punish you for.

{وَآَتُوا اليَتَامَى أَمْوَالَهُمْ وَلَا تَتَبَدَّلُوا الخَبِيثَ بِالطَّيِّبِ وَلَا تَأْكُلُوا أَمْوَالَهُمْ إِلَى أَمْوَالِكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ حُوبًا كَبِيرًا} [النساء: 2]

2- Give the orphans their monies and do not oppress them by taking their best properties for your worst properties and then say this kind for that as long as it is from the same kind. Do not mix their monies with yours and eat them up all because this is a major sin, so avoid it.

{وَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تُقْسِطُوا فِي اليَتَامَى فَانْكِحُوا مَا طَابَ لَكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ مَثْنَى وَثُلَاثَ وَرُبَاعَ فَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوا فَوَاحِدَةً أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ ذَلِكَ أَدْنَى أَلَّا تَعُولُوا} [النساء: 3]

3- If you want to marry orphan girls and you fear to oppress them in terms of their rights, such as not giving them their full dower like their peers, you should be fair and give them the same dower of their peers. if you cannot observe justice, women are numerous, so marry other women; two, three, four women if you like and no more because this is the limited number of women to marry. If you fear to treat them justly, marry one woman or marry the slave girls you own without limits; by possession and not marriage because they do not have the same rights as free wives. Taking one wife is the nearest not to oppress others.

{وَآَتُوا النِّسَاءَ صَدُقَاتِهِنَّ نِحْلَةً فَإِنْ طِبْنَ لَكُمْ عَنْ شَيْءٍ مِنْهُ نَفْسًا فَكُلُوهُ هَنِيئًا مَرِيئًا} [النساء: 4]

4- Give women their dower as a must, but if they gave up part of it for you out of their kind hearts, you may take it lawfully for you.

{وَلَا تُؤْتُوا السُّفَهَاءَ أَمْوَالَكُمُ الَّتِي جَعَلَ اللهُ لَكُمْ قِيَامًا وَارْزُقُوهُمْ فِيهَا وَاكْسُوهُمْ وَقُولُوا لَهُمْ قَوْلًا مَعْرُوفًا} [النساء: 5]

5- Do not give your monies to minors who cannot run their business or invest their monies well. Monies cannot be wasted or thrown away because with which you live and achieve your goals, such as trade or others. Give minors, whom you take care of, their rights such as clothes, provision, and food. Treat them well and say to them nice words.

{وَابْتَلُوا اليَتَامَى حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغُوا النِّكَاحَ فَإِنْ آَنَسْتُمْ مِنْهُمْ رُشْدًا فَادْفَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ أَمْوَالَهُمْ وَلَا تَأْكُلُوهَا إِسْرَافًا وَبِدَارًا أَنْ يَكْبَرُوا وَمَنْ كَانَ غَنِيًّا فَلْيَسْتَعْفِفْ وَمَنْ كَانَ فَقِيرًا فَلْيَأْكُلْ بِالمَعْرُوفِ فَإِذَا دَفَعْتُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ أَمْوَالَهُمْ فَأَشْهِدُوا عَلَيْهِمْ وَكَفَى بِاللهِ حَسِيبًا} [النساء: 6]

6- If you want to give to the orphans their monies, try them first and if you find them capable of taking the responsibility of marriage and you know about their good faith and their ability to dispose their affairs, give them their monies and do not eat them up without need. If the guardian is rich, he should not take anything from their monies and if he is poor, he may take from it moderately. Allah (Exalted be He) says: "And come not near to the orphan’s property, except to improve it, until he (or she) attains the age of full strength." {Surat Al An`am: 152}. If you give them their monies, there must be witnesses at delivery. Allah is enough Account, Witness, and Watchful over the guardians of the orphans and their actions.

{لِلرِّجَالِ نَصِيبٌ مِمَّا تَرَكَ الوَالِدَانِ وَالأَقْرَبُونَ وَلِلنِّسَاءِ نَصِيبٌ مِمَّا تَرَكَ الوَالِدَانِ وَالأَقْرَبُونَ مِمَّا قَلَّ مِنْهُ أَوْ كَثُرَ نَصِيبًا مَفْرُوضًا} [النساء: 7]

7- All people are equal in the matter of inheritance. Men have their share of inheritance that their parents and relatives left and women have their share of inheritance, whether the inheritance was little or much as an obligatory duty.

{وَإِذَا حَضَرَ القِسْمَةَ أُولُو القُرْبَى وَاليَتَامَى وَالمَسَاكِينُ فَارْزُقُوهُمْ مِنْهُ وَقُولُوا لَهُمْ قَوْلًا مَعْرُوفًا} [النساء: 8]

8- If the poor or the orphan relatives, who shall not inherit, attend the distribution of inheritance, give them part of it and say nice words to comfort them.

{وَلْيَخْشَ الَّذِينَ لَوْ تَرَكُوا مِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّةً ضِعَافًا خَافُوا عَلَيْهِمْ فَلْيَتَّقُوا اللهَ وَلْيَقُولُوا قَوْلًا سَدِيدًا} [النساء: 9]

9- Let those who approach death fear Allah. When they leave weak young offspring and they fear for them of poverty and lost because of their weakness and inability to earn money, they should fear Allah and do not bequeath their monies for others and let their own children poor and ask the people for money. Later on, the Sunnah explained that it is not permissible to bequeath more than one third of one's properties.

{إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَأْكُلُونَ أَمْوَالَ اليَتَامَى ظُلْمًا إِنَّمَا يَأْكُلُونَ فِي بُطُونِهِمْ نَارًا وَسَيَصْلَوْنَ سَعِيرًا} [النساء: 10]

10- Verily, those who eat up the monies of the orphans unlawfully, they fill their abdomen of fire on the Day of the Recompense. Their retribution shall be Hell that will burn them from inside as well as outside. It surrounds them from inside and outside as a retribution of their oppression to the orphans and the weak.