So the verse came down to admonish and reproach those cruel...

So the verse came down to admonish and reproach those cruel men who were doing so: [ 504 ] ``And if you have decided to take another wife in place of your present spouse, even if you have given her a lot of wealth, don't try to get the least of it back - Do you indeed want to take it by slander and through manifest sin!?'' VERSE NO.

21 This verse continues with the argument, with the aim of inciting the emotions and the compassionate feelings of men through a fine touch that: How dare of you to waste the definite and certain rights of a woman with whom you have lain and made love and have had a solemn and firm covenant!?

Have you not a human conscience to blame and reproach you - ``And how would you take it when you have lain with each other, and a firm covenant has been taken from you?'' وَلاَ تَنكِحُوا مَا نَكَحَ ءَابَآؤُكُم مِّنَ النِّسَآءِ إِلاَّ مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَـحِشَةً وَمَقْتاً وَسَآءَ سَبِيلا(( 22 )) 22- AND MARRY NOT THE WOMEN WHOM YOUR FATHERS MARRIED, EXCEPT WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PASSED, THAT IT IS INDECENT, HATEFUL, AND EVIL WAY. THE COMMENTARY OCCASION OF REVELATION (VERSE NO.

22.After the Pagan Era, when Islam had been spread, one of the Helpers named ABUGHOBAIS, passed away and his son proposed to marry his own step - mother.

The woman said: ``I consider you as my own son, and I think not of this sort of marriage as a decent and appropriate one; but still we may go to the Messenger of God and ask his opinion about that.'' When they referred the matter to the prophet, the above verse was revealed and declared that sort of marriage bad and unlawful: ``Marry not the women whom your fathers married.'' [ 505 ] Then three distinct difinitions of the marriage is outlined through the ending of the verse in order to put an emphasis upon the commandment of prohibition, that it is an indecent act.

It is also hateful and malevolent, and a wrong and evil way to be followed.

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