حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَّهـتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُكُمْ...

حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَّهـتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُكُمْ وَأَخَوَتُكُمْ وَعَمَّـتُكُمْ وَخَـلَـتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُ الاَْخِ وَبَنَاتُ الاُْخْتِ وَأُمَّهَـتُكُمُ الَّتِى أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ وَأَخَوَتُكُم مِّنَ الرَّضَـعَةِ وَأُمَّهَـتُ نِسَآئِكُمْ وَرَبَـئِبُكُمُ الَّتِى فِى حُجُورِكُمْ مِّن نِّسَآئِكُمُ الَّـتِى دَخَلْتُم بِهِنَّ فَإِن لَّمْ تَكُونُوا دَخَلْتُم بِهِنَّ فَلاَ جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَحَلـئِلُ أَبْنَآئِكُمُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ أَصْلَـبِكُمْ وَأَن تَجْمَعُوا بَيْنَ الاُْخْتَيْنِ إِلاَّ مَاقَدْ سَلَفَ إِنَّ اللهَ كَانَ غَفُوراً رَّحِيماً(( 23 )) 23- IT IS UNLAWFUL TO YOU (MARRIAGE WITH) YOUR MOTHER, YOUR DAUGHTERS, YOUR SISTERS, YOUR FATHER'S SISTERS, YOUR MOTHER'S SISTERS, YOUR BROTHER'S DAUGHTERS, YOUR SISTER'S DAUGHTERS, YOUR FOSTER- MOTHERS WHO HAVE GIVEN SUCK TO YOU, YOUR FOSTER SISTERS, YOUR WIFE'S MOTHER, YOUR STEP- DAUGHTERS UNDER YOUR GUARDIANSHIP BORN OF YOUR WIVES WITH WHOM YOU HAVE MADE LOVE- BUT IF YOU HAVE NOT MADE LOVE WITH THEM THERE IS NO BALME ON YOU (IN MARRYING STEPِDAUGHTERS) AND WIVES OF YOUR SONS WHO ARE OF YOUR LOINS, AND TO TAKE IN MARRIAGE TWO SISTERS SIMULTANEOUSLY, EXCEPT WHAT HAS ALREADY PASSED, THAT ALLAH IS FORGIVING COMPASSIONATE .

[ 506 ] **THE COMMENTARY PROHIBITION OF MARRIAGE WITH CLOSE RELATIVES (VERSE NO. 23) ** Here is a table of forbidden marriage with close relatives, and the table agrees mainly with what is usually accepted among all nations. The prohibition is due to: 1- blood relationship or consanguinity. 2- Fostrage or milk relations. 3- The relatives in - law.

Those related by blood, or the consanguineous are of seven groups: mother, daughter, sister, paternal aunt, maternal aunt, your brother's daughter, and your sister's daughter. Mother includes grand mother through the father or mother, great - grandmother and etc. Daughters too, includes grand daughter through son or daughter, great- grand- daughter and so on.

Then the fostrage and milk - relatives are named in the table; `Your foster- mother who have given suck to you, and also your foster- sister.' In the third stage there comes in the verse the relatives- in- law, who are mentioned in four groups: 1- `your wife's mothers.' This implies that as soon as you marry a girl, her mother and grand-mother, and going on, her great grand- mother will be unlawful for you in marriage for ever.

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