{
  "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": "M. M. Pickthall · 1930 translation",
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/058.htm"
    },
    {
      "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": "Allah hath heard the saying of her that disputeth with thee (Muhammad) concerning her husband, and complaineth unto Allah. And Allah heareth your colloquy. Lo! Allah is Hearer, Knower."
    },
    {
      "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": "Such of you as put away your wives (by saying they are as their mothers) - They are not their mothers; none are their mothers except those who gave them birth - they indeed utter an ill word and a lie. And lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful."
    },
    {
      "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": "Those who put away their wives (by saying they are as their mothers) and afterward would go back on that which they have said, (the penalty) in that case (is) the freeing of a slave before they touch one another. Unto this ye are exhorted; and Allah is Informed of what ye 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 findeth not (the wherewithal), let him fast for two successive months before they touch one another; and for him who is unable to do so (the penance is) the feeding of sixty needy ones. This, that ye may put trust in Allah and His messenger. Such are the limits (imposed by Allah); and for disbelievers is a painful doom."
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحَآدُّونَ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ كُبِتُوا۟ كَمَا كُبِتَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ وَقَدْ أَنزَلْنَآ ءَايَٰتٍۭ بَيِّنَٰتٍۢ ۚ وَلِلْكَٰفِرِينَ عَذَابٌۭ مُّهِينٌۭ",
      "translation": "Lo! those who oppose Allah and His messenger will be abased even as those before them were abased; and We have sent down clear tokens, and for disbelievers is a shameful doom"
    },
    {
      "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 raise them all together and inform them of what they did. Allah hath kept account of it while they forgot it. And Allah is Witness over all things."
    },
    {
      "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": "Hast thou not seen that Allah knoweth all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth ? There is no secret conference of three but He is their fourth, nor of five but He is their sixth, nor of less than that or more but He is with them wheresoever they may be; and afterward, on the Day of Resurrection, He will inform them of what they did. Lo! Allah is Knower of all things."
    },
    {
      "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": "Hast thou not observed those who were forbidden conspiracy and afterward returned to that which they had been forbidden, and (now) conspire together for crime and wrongdoing and disobedience toward the messenger ? And when they come unto thee they greet thee with a greeting wherewith Allah greeteth thee not, and say within themselves: Why should Allah punish us for what we say ? Hell will suffice them; they will feel the heat thereof - a hapless journey's end!"
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِذَا تَنَٰجَيْتُمْ فَلَا تَتَنَٰجَوْا۟ بِٱلْإِثْمِ وَٱلْعُدْوَٰنِ وَمَعْصِيَتِ ٱلرَّسُولِ وَتَنَٰجَوْا۟ بِٱلْبِرِّ وَٱلتَّقْوَىٰ ۖ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِىٓ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ",
      "translation": "O ye who believe! When ye conspire together, conspire not together for crime and wrongdoing and disobedience toward the messenger, but conspire together for righteousness and piety, and keep your duty toward Allah, unto whom ye will be gathered."
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "إِنَّمَا ٱلنَّجْوَىٰ مِنَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ لِيَحْزُنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَلَيْسَ بِضَآرِّهِمْ شَيْـًٔا إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ",
      "translation": "Lo! Conspiracy is only of the devil, that he may vex those who believe; but he can harm them not at all unless by Allah's leave. In Allah let believers put their trust."
    },
    {
      "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 ye who believe! when it is said unto you, Make room! in assemblies, then make room; Allah will make way for you (hereafter). And when it is said, Come up higher! go up higher; Allah will exalt those who believe among you, and those who have knowledge, to high ranks. Allah is Informed of what ye 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 ye who believe! When ye hold conference with the messenger, offer an alms before your conference. That is better and purer for you. But if ye cannot find (the wherewithal) then lo! Allah is Forgiving, 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": "Fear ye to offer alms before your conference ? Then, when ye do it not and Allah hath forgiven you, establish worship and pay the poor-due and obey Allah and His messenger. And Allah is Aware of what ye do."
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "arabic": "۞ أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ تَوَلَّوْا۟ قَوْمًا غَضِبَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِم مَّا هُم مِّنكُمْ وَلَا مِنْهُمْ وَيَحْلِفُونَ عَلَى ٱلْكَذِبِ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ",
      "translation": "Hast thou not seen those who take for friends a folk with whom Allah is wroth ? They are neither of you nor of them, and they swear a false oath knowingly."
    },
    {
      "n": 15,
      "arabic": "أَعَدَّ ٱللَّهُ لَهُمْ عَذَابًۭا شَدِيدًا ۖ إِنَّهُمْ سَآءَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ",
      "translation": "Allah hath prepared for them a dreadful doom. Evil indeed is that which they are wont to do."
    },
    {
      "n": 16,
      "arabic": "ٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ أَيْمَٰنَهُمْ جُنَّةًۭ فَصَدُّوا۟ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ فَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌۭ مُّهِينٌۭ",
      "translation": "They make a shelter of their oaths and turn (men) from the way of Allah; so theirs will be a shameful doom."
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "arabic": "لَّن تُغْنِىَ عَنْهُمْ أَمْوَٰلُهُمْ وَلَآ أَوْلَٰدُهُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ شَيْـًٔا ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلنَّارِ ۖ هُمْ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ",
      "translation": "Their wealth and their children will avail them naught against Allah. Such are rightful owners of the Fire; they will abide therein."
    },
    {
      "n": 18,
      "arabic": "يَوْمَ يَبْعَثُهُمُ ٱللَّهُ جَمِيعًۭا فَيَحْلِفُونَ لَهُۥ كَمَا يَحْلِفُونَ لَكُمْ ۖ وَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ عَلَىٰ شَىْءٍ ۚ أَلَآ إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ ٱلْكَٰذِبُونَ",
      "translation": "On the day when Allah will raise them all together, then will they swear unto Him as they (now) swear unto you, and they will fancy that they have some standing. Lo! is it not they who are the liars ?"
    },
    {
      "n": 19,
      "arabic": "ٱسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ فَأَنسَىٰهُمْ ذِكْرَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ حِزْبُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ ۚ أَلَآ إِنَّ حِزْبَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ",
      "translation": "The devil hath engrossed them and so hath caused them to forget remembrance of Allah. They are the devil's party. Lo! is it not the devil's party who will be the losers ?"
    },
    {
      "n": 20,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحَآدُّونَ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥٓ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى ٱلْأَذَلِّينَ",
      "translation": "Lo! those who oppose Allah and His messenger, they will be among the lowest."
    },
    {
      "n": 21,
      "arabic": "كَتَبَ ٱللَّهُ لَأَغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا۠ وَرُسُلِىٓ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَوِىٌّ عَزِيزٌۭ",
      "translation": "Allah hath decreed: Lo! I verily shall conquer, I and My messengers. Lo! Allah is Strong, Almighty."
    },
    {
      "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": "Thou wilt not find folk who believe in Allah and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His messenger, even though they be their fathers or their sons or their brethren or their clan. As for such, He hath written faith upon their hearts and hath strengthened them with a Spirit from Him, and He will bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide. Allah is well pleased with them, and they are well pleased with Him. They are Allah's party. Lo! is it not Allah's party who are the successful ?"
    }
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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": "The complete translation preserves the cited Pickthall transcription. Its final words at 58:1 are “Hearer, Knower”; the Arabic word baṣīr is shown with the Corpus meaning “All-Seer” in the individual word view.",
  "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."
}