Some clans had the custom of burning the widow alive when her husband died!

Some clans had the custom of burning the widow alive when her husband died! Some other clan burried the poor widow alive in the same grave with her husband! Some tribes who were more temperate and gentle, deprived the widow of her rights of marriage after she was widowed. The custom of some tribes was to errect a tent upon the grave of the man, and his wife had to live in that tent lonely and in dirt, wearing shabby and worn-out clothes, without the least of adornment.

She had to live in that tent for a long time mourning, in order to be counted a faithful wife! [ 261 ] The said verse (No. 234) came down to draw a red line of obliteration upon…