{
  "number": 58,
  "slug": "mujadilah",
  "name": "Al-Mujadilah",
  "arabicName": "المجادلة",
  "meaning": "The Woman Who Pleads",
  "juz": 28,
  "period": "Madinan",
  "tagline": "A PLEA HEARD & A COMMUNITY CALLED TO TRUTH",
  "overview": "A woman’s plea opens a chapter about speech and responsibility: words that harm a marriage, whispers that distress others, and oaths used to conceal falsehood. Repair, considerate gatherings and sincere allegiance become expressions of faith in the One who hears and knows.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)",
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_58.json"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)",
      "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=1"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=2"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=3"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=4"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=6"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=7"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=8"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=10"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=11"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=12"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=13"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=15"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=17"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=19"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=58&verse=22"
    },
    {
      "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com",
      "url": "https://quran.com/al-mujadila/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "622 CE period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira"
    },
    {
      "title": "632 CE period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Mahomet"
    },
    {
      "title": "Khuwaylah’s account and expiation · Abu Dawud 2214",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/abudawud:2214"
    },
    {
      "title": "Aisha’s report of the plea · Ibn Majah 2063",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:2063"
    },
    {
      "title": "Divine knowledge and private counsel · Ibn Kathir",
      "url": "https://quran.com/58:7/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "Manners in gatherings · Ibn Kathir",
      "url": "https://quran.com/58:11/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "Charity before consultation · Ibn Kathir",
      "url": "https://quran.com/58:12/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "Related passage on kindness and justice · Quran 60:8–9",
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/060.htm"
    }
  ],
  "verses": [
    {
      "n": 1,
      "arabic": "قَدْ سَمِعَ ٱللَّهُ قَوْلَ ٱلَّتِى تُجَٰدِلُكَ فِى زَوْجِهَا وَتَشْتَكِىٓ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ وَٱللَّهُ يَسْمَعُ تَحَاوُرَكُمَآ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌۢ بَصِيرٌ",
      "translation": "Certainly has Allah heard the speech of the one who argues with you, [O Muhammad], concerning her husband and directs her complaint to Allah. And Allah hears your dialogue; indeed, Allah is Hearing and Seeing."
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ يُظَٰهِرُونَ مِنكُم مِّن نِّسَآئِهِم مَّا هُنَّ أُمَّهَٰتِهِمْ ۖ إِنْ أُمَّهَٰتُهُمْ إِلَّا ٱلَّٰٓـِٔى وَلَدْنَهُمْ ۚ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَيَقُولُونَ مُنكَرًۭا مِّنَ ٱلْقَوْلِ وَزُورًۭا ۚ وَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَعَفُوٌّ غَفُورٌۭ",
      "translation": "Those who pronounce thihar among you [to separate] from their wives - they are not [consequently] their mothers. Their mothers are none but those who gave birth to them. And indeed, they are saying an objectionable statement and a falsehood. But indeed, Allah is Pardoning and Forgiving."
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ يُظَٰهِرُونَ مِن نِّسَآئِهِمْ ثُمَّ يَعُودُونَ لِمَا قَالُوا۟ فَتَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍۢ مِّن قَبْلِ أَن يَتَمَآسَّا ۚ ذَٰلِكُمْ تُوعَظُونَ بِهِۦ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌۭ",
      "translation": "And those who pronounce thihar from their wives and then [wish to] go back on what they said - then [there must be] the freeing of a slave before they touch one another. That is what you are admonished thereby; and Allah is Acquainted with what you do."
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "arabic": "فَمَن لَّمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ شَهْرَيْنِ مُتَتَابِعَيْنِ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَتَمَآسَّا ۖ فَمَن لَّمْ يَسْتَطِعْ فَإِطْعَامُ سِتِّينَ مِسْكِينًۭا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ لِتُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِۦ ۚ وَتِلْكَ حُدُودُ ٱللَّهِ ۗ وَلِلْكَٰفِرِينَ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ",
      "translation": "And he who does not find [a slave] - then a fast for two months consecutively before they touch one another; and he who is unable - then the feeding of sixty poor persons. That is for you to believe [completely] in Allah and His Messenger; and those are the limits [set by] Allah. And for the disbelievers is a painful punishment."
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحَآدُّونَ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ كُبِتُوا۟ كَمَا كُبِتَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ وَقَدْ أَنزَلْنَآ ءَايَٰتٍۭ بَيِّنَٰتٍۢ ۚ وَلِلْكَٰفِرِينَ عَذَابٌۭ مُّهِينٌۭ",
      "translation": "Indeed, those who oppose Allah and His Messenger are abased as those before them were abased. And We have certainly sent down verses of clear evidence. And for the disbelievers is a humiliating punishment."
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "arabic": "يَوْمَ يَبْعَثُهُمُ ٱللَّهُ جَمِيعًۭا فَيُنَبِّئُهُم بِمَا عَمِلُوٓا۟ ۚ أَحْصَىٰهُ ٱللَّهُ وَنَسُوهُ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ شَهِيدٌ",
      "translation": "On the Day when Allah will resurrect them all and inform them of what they did. Allah had enumerated it, while they forgot it; and Allah is, over all things, Witness."
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "arabic": "أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ مَا يَكُونُ مِن نَّجْوَىٰ ثَلَٰثَةٍ إِلَّا هُوَ رَابِعُهُمْ وَلَا خَمْسَةٍ إِلَّا هُوَ سَادِسُهُمْ وَلَآ أَدْنَىٰ مِن ذَٰلِكَ وَلَآ أَكْثَرَ إِلَّا هُوَ مَعَهُمْ أَيْنَ مَا كَانُوا۟ ۖ ثُمَّ يُنَبِّئُهُم بِمَا عَمِلُوا۟ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَلِيمٌ",
      "translation": "Have you not considered that Allah knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth? There is in no private conversation three but that He is the fourth of them, nor are there five but that He is the sixth of them - and no less than that and no more except that He is with them [in knowledge] wherever they are. Then He will inform them of what they did, on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed Allah is, of all things, Knowing."
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "arabic": "أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ نُهُوا۟ عَنِ ٱلنَّجْوَىٰ ثُمَّ يَعُودُونَ لِمَا نُهُوا۟ عَنْهُ وَيَتَنَٰجَوْنَ بِٱلْإِثْمِ وَٱلْعُدْوَٰنِ وَمَعْصِيَتِ ٱلرَّسُولِ وَإِذَا جَآءُوكَ حَيَّوْكَ بِمَا لَمْ يُحَيِّكَ بِهِ ٱللَّهُ وَيَقُولُونَ فِىٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَوْلَا يُعَذِّبُنَا ٱللَّهُ بِمَا نَقُولُ ۚ حَسْبُهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ يَصْلَوْنَهَا ۖ فَبِئْسَ ٱلْمَصِيرُ",
      "translation": "Have you not considered those who were forbidden from private conversation, then they return to that which they were forbidden and converse among themselves about sin and aggression and disobedience to the Messenger? And when they come to you, they greet you with that [word] by which Allah does not greet you and say among themselves, \"Why does Allah not punish us for what we say?\" Sufficient for them is Hell, which they will [enter to] burn, and wretched is the destination."
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِذَا تَنَٰجَيْتُمْ فَلَا تَتَنَٰجَوْا۟ بِٱلْإِثْمِ وَٱلْعُدْوَٰنِ وَمَعْصِيَتِ ٱلرَّسُولِ وَتَنَٰجَوْا۟ بِٱلْبِرِّ وَٱلتَّقْوَىٰ ۖ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِىٓ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ",
      "translation": "O you who have believed, when you converse privately, do not converse about sin and aggression and disobedience to the Messenger but converse about righteousness and piety. And fear Allah, to whom you will be gathered."
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "إِنَّمَا ٱلنَّجْوَىٰ مِنَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ لِيَحْزُنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَلَيْسَ بِضَآرِّهِمْ شَيْـًٔا إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ",
      "translation": "Private conversation is only from Satan that he may grieve those who have believed, but he will not harm them at all except by permission of Allah. And upon Allah let the believers rely."
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِذَا قِيلَ لَكُمْ تَفَسَّحُوا۟ فِى ٱلْمَجَٰلِسِ فَٱفْسَحُوا۟ يَفْسَحِ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ ۖ وَإِذَا قِيلَ ٱنشُزُوا۟ فَٱنشُزُوا۟ يَرْفَعِ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مِنكُمْ وَٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْعِلْمَ دَرَجَٰتٍۢ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌۭ",
      "translation": "O you who have believed, when you are told, \"Space yourselves\" in assemblies, then make space; Allah will make space for you. And when you are told, \"Arise,\" then arise; Allah will raise those who have believed among you and those who were given knowledge, by degrees. And Allah is Acquainted with what you do."
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِذَا نَٰجَيْتُمُ ٱلرَّسُولَ فَقَدِّمُوا۟ بَيْنَ يَدَىْ نَجْوَىٰكُمْ صَدَقَةًۭ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ خَيْرٌۭ لَّكُمْ وَأَطْهَرُ ۚ فَإِن لَّمْ تَجِدُوا۟ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَفُورٌۭ رَّحِيمٌ",
      "translation": "O you who have believed, when you [wish to] privately consult the Messenger, present before your consultation a charity. That is better for you and purer. But if you find not [the means] - then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful."
    },
    {
      "n": 13,
      "arabic": "ءَأَشْفَقْتُمْ أَن تُقَدِّمُوا۟ بَيْنَ يَدَىْ نَجْوَىٰكُمْ صَدَقَٰتٍۢ ۚ فَإِذْ لَمْ تَفْعَلُوا۟ وَتَابَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ فَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَءَاتُوا۟ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَأَطِيعُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ خَبِيرٌۢ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ",
      "translation": "Have you feared to present before your consultation charities? Then when you do not and Allah has forgiven you, then [at least] establish prayer and give zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. And Allah is Acquainted with what you do."
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "arabic": "۞ أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ تَوَلَّوْا۟ قَوْمًا غَضِبَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِم مَّا هُم مِّنكُمْ وَلَا مِنْهُمْ وَيَحْلِفُونَ عَلَى ٱلْكَذِبِ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ",
      "translation": "Have you not considered those who make allies of a people with whom Allah has become angry? They are neither of you nor of them, and they swear to untruth while they know [they are lying]."
    },
    {
      "n": 15,
      "arabic": "أَعَدَّ ٱللَّهُ لَهُمْ عَذَابًۭا شَدِيدًا ۖ إِنَّهُمْ سَآءَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ",
      "translation": "Allah has prepared for them a severe punishment. Indeed, it was evil that they were doing."
    },
    {
      "n": 16,
      "arabic": "ٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ أَيْمَٰنَهُمْ جُنَّةًۭ فَصَدُّوا۟ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ فَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌۭ مُّهِينٌۭ",
      "translation": "They took their [false] oaths as a cover, so they averted [people] from the way of Allah, and for them is a humiliating punishment."
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "arabic": "لَّن تُغْنِىَ عَنْهُمْ أَمْوَٰلُهُمْ وَلَآ أَوْلَٰدُهُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ شَيْـًٔا ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلنَّارِ ۖ هُمْ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ",
      "translation": "Never will their wealth or their children avail them against Allah at all. Those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally"
    },
    {
      "n": 18,
      "arabic": "يَوْمَ يَبْعَثُهُمُ ٱللَّهُ جَمِيعًۭا فَيَحْلِفُونَ لَهُۥ كَمَا يَحْلِفُونَ لَكُمْ ۖ وَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ عَلَىٰ شَىْءٍ ۚ أَلَآ إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ ٱلْكَٰذِبُونَ",
      "translation": "On the Day Allah will resurrect them all, and they will swear to Him as they swear to you and think that they are [standing] on something. Unquestionably, it is they who are the liars."
    },
    {
      "n": 19,
      "arabic": "ٱسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ فَأَنسَىٰهُمْ ذِكْرَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ حِزْبُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ ۚ أَلَآ إِنَّ حِزْبَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ",
      "translation": "Satan has overcome them and made them forget the remembrance of Allah. Those are the party of Satan. Unquestionably, the party of Satan - they will be the losers."
    },
    {
      "n": 20,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحَآدُّونَ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥٓ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى ٱلْأَذَلِّينَ",
      "translation": "Indeed, the ones who oppose Allah and His Messenger - those will be among the most humbled."
    },
    {
      "n": 21,
      "arabic": "كَتَبَ ٱللَّهُ لَأَغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا۠ وَرُسُلِىٓ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَوِىٌّ عَزِيزٌۭ",
      "translation": "Allah has written, \"I will surely overcome, I and My messengers.\" Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might."
    },
    {
      "n": 22,
      "arabic": "لَّا تَجِدُ قَوْمًۭا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْءَاخِرِ يُوَآدُّونَ مَنْ حَآدَّ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ وَلَوْ كَانُوٓا۟ ءَابَآءَهُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَآءَهُمْ أَوْ إِخْوَٰنَهُمْ أَوْ عَشِيرَتَهُمْ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ كَتَبَ فِى قُلُوبِهِمُ ٱلْإِيمَٰنَ وَأَيَّدَهُم بِرُوحٍۢ مِّنْهُ ۖ وَيُدْخِلُهُمْ جَنَّٰتٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا ۚ رَضِىَ ٱللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا۟ عَنْهُ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ حِزْبُ ٱللَّهِ ۚ أَلَآ إِنَّ حِزْبَ ٱللَّهِ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ",
      "translation": "You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred. Those - He has decreed within their hearts faith and supported them with spirit from Him. And We will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally. Allah is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him - those are the party of Allah. Unquestionably, the party of Allah - they are the successful."
    }
  ],
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      "in it,",
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  ],
  "glossNote": "Corpus chapter 58 repeats some multiword English phrases on each constituent Arabic word. This edition separates those repeated phrases into individual word meanings using the same page’s grammar and Arabic: for example, samiʿa → “has heard” and Allah → “Allah”. The idiom bayna yaday is understood as “before”; its second word is also given its literal sense, “the two hands of”. The source phrases and every display adjustment are preserved in the source audit.",
  "translationNote": "English translation: Sahih International, via AlQuran Cloud. Original source wording is preserved.",
  "titles": [
    "The plea that was heard",
    "A harmful claim is rejected",
    "Repair before returning",
    "Expiation according to ability",
    "Clear signs and opposition",
    "Remembered when people forget",
    "No counsel beyond divine knowledge",
    "Whispers that conceal wrongdoing",
    "Counsel for goodness",
    "Trust beyond the fear of whispers",
    "Make room for one another",
    "Charity before private counsel",
    "Relief and continuing obligations",
    "False allegiance and knowing oaths",
    "Accountability for repeated conduct",
    "Oaths used as a cover",
    "What wealth cannot protect",
    "False oaths before the final account",
    "When remembrance is displaced",
    "Opposition and its consequence",
    "The promise of prevailing truth",
    "Faith written upon the heart"
  ],
  "notes": [
    "A woman’s complaint is treated as worthy of a divine response. The opening brings intimate distress into the centre of revelation. Her conversation and appeal are heard, challenging the assumption that a private household grievance must remain unnoticed.",
    "The declaration described here does not transform a wife into her husband’s mother. The verse rejects the claim as harmful falsehood while affirming forgiveness. Its correction begins by distinguishing an angry or unjust utterance from the reality it pretends to create.",
    "Returning from the declaration requires an act of repair before marital intimacy resumes. Within the historical institution of slavery, emancipation is named first. The verse makes the consequences of speech substantial and places conduct under Allah’s complete knowledge.",
    "When emancipation is beyond someone’s means, the verse names consecutive fasting, and then feeding sixty needy people for one unable to fast. The sequence connects repair with real ability and responsibility; it should be read with the surrounding passage.",
    "The chapter widens from a household wrong to opposition against Allah and His messenger. Earlier examples of humiliation stand beside clear signs already given. The movement suggests that accountability reaches both private conduct and the public refusal of guidance.",
    "Human forgetfulness does not erase what has been done. The verse imagines everyone raised and informed of their own actions, which Allah has kept in account. Remembering this horizon invites honest attention to conduct that habit might otherwise conceal.",
    "Whether a conversation involves few people or many, it does not escape Allah’s knowledge. Ibn Kathir explains the accompanying presence here in terms of knowledge, hearing and sight. The verse begins and ends with this all-encompassing awareness.",
    "The condemned conversations involve wrongdoing, aggression and disobedience, not simply privacy itself. Even a greeting can be twisted into concealed hostility. The question about delayed punishment reveals a dangerous confusion between having time to change and being beyond accountability.",
    "Believers are told to change the purpose of their private discussions. Cooperation can serve goodness and reverence instead of wrongdoing and aggression. The distinction gives ordinary conversations a moral direction without treating every confidential exchange as something inherently suspect.",
    "Malicious whispering seeks to distress believers, but its power is not presented as independent or unlimited. Trust in Allah answers the fear it produces. The verse neither makes harmful speech harmless nor gives it the final authority over a person’s life.",
    "A gathering becomes an everyday test of generosity: make space, respond when asked to rise, and do not confuse honour with occupying a preferred seat. Faith and knowledge are connected with elevation, while Allah knows the conduct behind appearances.",
    "Those seeking a private audience with the messenger are instructed to give charity beforehand, with explicit allowance for those lacking means. Access and consideration are linked with care for others, while poverty is not treated as a moral failure.",
    "The next verse brings relief from the preceding requirement and returns attention to prayer, the poor-due and obedience. Ibn Kathir reads it as lifting that specific obligation. The wider responsibilities of worship and generosity continue after the immediate restriction changes.",
    "The focus falls on people who knowingly swear falsely while presenting an unreliable allegiance. The passage challenges deliberate deception in its historical setting. Readers should attend to the conduct described rather than attach the accusation indiscriminately to present-day religious communities.",
    "The warning is directed at what these people habitually do. A repeated pattern of deception carries consequences beyond the immediate advantage it may secure. The verse keeps the moral attention on conduct rather than allowing a convincing outward appearance to settle matters.",
    "An oath, intended to make speech trustworthy, can instead become a shelter for dishonesty. Here that misuse is joined with obstructing the way of Allah. The verse asks readers to distinguish solemn language from the truthfulness it ought to express.",
    "Wealth and children cannot replace accountability or provide protection from divine judgment. These familiar sources of worldly confidence are placed beside a lasting destination. The warning concerns reliance upon them as guarantees, rather than denying their place in ordinary life.",
    "The habit of false swearing is pictured continuing even at resurrection. People imagine that the same performance will still give them standing. The scene exposes how deeply deception can shape a person’s expectations when appearances have repeatedly been used to evade truth.",
    "The loss of remembrance marks the condition described as Satan’s domination. The language of a party identifies a spiritual allegiance within the verse, not a present-day organization. Its test is the direction of loyalty and the resulting loss.",
    "The verse returns to opposition against Allah and His messenger and declares its eventual humiliation. Read within the surrounding warnings about false oaths and allegiance, it shifts attention from apparent influence now toward the final assessment of that influence.",
    "After the warnings comes a declaration of Allah’s strength and the eventual prevailing of His messengers. The assurance belongs to the chapter’s theological account of history. It is not measured solely by the temporary advantages visible in a particular confrontation.",
    "Faith is presented as a commitment that cannot be overturned by kinship when relatives actively oppose Allah and His messenger. The closing promise turns toward hearts strengthened, gardens and mutual pleasure. Belonging is defined by that enduring allegiance."
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 4,
      "title": "The plea that changed a household",
      "summary": "A woman is heard, a harmful declaration is rejected, and returning to the marriage is joined with meaningful repair.",
      "reflection": "What changes when a person’s private distress is listened to with seriousness?"
    },
    {
      "start": 5,
      "end": 10,
      "title": "What is said behind closed doors",
      "summary": "No hidden conversation escapes divine knowledge; private counsel is redirected from harm toward goodness and reverence.",
      "reflection": "Do your conversations offer others safety, or do they deepen their fear?"
    },
    {
      "start": 11,
      "end": 13,
      "title": "Make room in the gathering",
      "summary": "Consideration in shared space, respect for knowledge and charity before consultation shape the conduct of a community.",
      "reflection": "How can you make room for another person without needing to be the centre?"
    },
    {
      "start": 14,
      "end": 22,
      "title": "An allegiance deeper than appearances",
      "summary": "False oaths and borrowed security are exposed, while the chapter closes with faith rooted in the heart and the promise of divine pleasure.",
      "reflection": "Where do your words, loyalties and daily choices most need to agree?"
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "title": "622–632 CE · the Madinan period",
      "year": 622,
      "endYear": 632,
      "body": "Al-Mujadilah is generally classified as Madinan. The dates give the broad period from the Hijrah to the end of the Prophet’s lifetime, not an exact year for Khawlah’s complaint or every passage.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/al-mujadila/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "During that period · the heard plea",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Aisha’s report remembers Khawlah’s complaint and connects it with the opening revelation. The report does not supply a calendar date; the moment is shown in narrative order rather than assigned an invented year.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:2063"
    },
    {
      "title": "A requirement followed by relief",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 12–13 place charity before private consultation and then relief from that requirement. Ibn Kathir reads the second instruction as abrogating the first. No precise duration or event date is adopted here.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/58:12/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "The resurrection · the complete account",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 6 and 18 look toward the gathering at which forgotten deeds and false oaths are exposed. This is a promised future beyond earthly chronology, not a dated entry on a historical calendar.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/058.htm"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "madinah",
      "name": "Madinah · a community learning to listen",
      "body": "The chapter’s usual Madinan classification provides its broad setting. The map locates the city, not a verified room in which the plea occurred or a reconstructed route taken by the woman who brought it.",
      "lat": 24.4672,
      "lon": 39.6111,
      "source": "https://quran.com/al-mujadila/info",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "household",
      "name": "A household grievance · no authenticated address",
      "body": "Abu Dawud’s report names Khuwaylah and Aws in the account of zihar and its remedy. It gives no modern street address or surviving house plan. The imagined domestic setting does not claim archaeological precision.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/abudawud:2214",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "assembly",
      "name": "The gathering · space made for others",
      "body": "Verse 11 asks those assembled to make room. Ibn Kathir discusses manners in gatherings and consideration toward others. The illustration evokes this social setting without identifying an exact meeting, mosque interior or historical seating arrangement.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/58:11/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir",
      "image": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "gardens",
      "name": "Gardens beneath which rivers flow",
      "body": "The final verse promises gardens, abiding welcome and Allah’s pleasure. These belong to the theological promise of the hereafter; the landscape is symbolic and is not offered as an earthly location to visit.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/058.htm",
      "image": 3
    }
  ],
  "people": [
    {
      "id": "khawlah",
      "title": "Khawlah · the woman whose plea opens the chapter",
      "body": "Ibn Majah 2063 names Khawlah bint Tha‘labah in Aisha’s report. The Quran itself introduces her through her speech and complaint rather than a name. Her persistence becomes the opening focus of the chapter.",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:2063",
      "label": "Read Aisha’s report"
    },
    {
      "id": "aws",
      "title": "Aws ibn al-Samit · speech and responsibility",
      "body": "Abu Dawud 2214 names Aws as the husband who pronounced zihar. The report describes his inability to afford emancipation or undertake fasting and the assistance given toward feeding the needy. No unsupported biography or grave is supplied.",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/abudawud:2214",
      "label": "Read Abu Dawud 2214"
    },
    {
      "id": "aisha",
      "title": "Aisha · a witness to part of the conversation",
      "body": "Aisha’s narration says that some of the woman’s words were difficult for her to hear, while the opening verse affirms Allah’s hearing. This is a transmitted recollection, distinct from a verbatim transcript of the entire encounter.",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:2063",
      "label": "Read Ibn Majah 2063"
    },
    {
      "id": "people-of-knowledge",
      "title": "Believers and those given knowledge",
      "body": "Verse 11 joins making room with the elevation of people of faith and knowledge. These are described as qualities within the community, without naming a fixed guest list or restricting the lesson to one surviving building.",
      "verse": 11
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "title": "Zihar · a harmful declaration and its remedy",
      "body": "The opening rejects the claim that pronouncing a comparison makes a wife a mother, then sets out expiation. Abu Dawud’s account connects these verses to Khuwaylah and Aws. The source grades the report hasan except the appended basket-measure statement.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/abudawud:2214"
    },
    {
      "title": "The plea in Aisha’s recollection",
      "body": "Ibn Majah 2063, graded sahih on the cited page, preserves Aisha’s account of hearing only part of Khawlah’s complaint. It supplies a personal recollection alongside the Quran’s direct affirmation that the conversation was heard.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:2063"
    },
    {
      "title": "A specific instruction, then relief",
      "body": "Ibn Kathir interprets verse 13 as removing the obligation to give charity before privately consulting the Prophet. This contextual sequence matters: verse 12 is not presented here as a permanent admission fee for spiritual counsel.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/58:12/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "Historical opposition and peaceful relations",
      "body": "The closing verses discuss false allegiance and opposition to Allah and His messenger. Reading alongside Quran 60:8–9 keeps that conflict distinct from peaceful neighbours, toward whom kindness and justice are expressly permitted.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/060.htm"
    }
  ],
  "revelationNote": "Generally Madinan; Quran.com notes claims that some passages were Makkan. The broad 622–632 CE range is not a precise revelation date. Khawlah’s identity and the household details come from transmitted reports, while the Quran foregrounds her plea."
}