{
  "number": 66,
  "slug": "tahrim",
  "name": "At-Tahrim",
  "arabicName": "التحريم",
  "meaning": "The Prohibition",
  "juz": 28,
  "period": "Madinan",
  "tagline": "TRUST AT HOME & FAITH THAT STANDS ON ITS OWN",
  "overview": "A household matter opens a lesson about lawful boundaries, confidence and repentance. The address widens to family responsibility and sincere return, then presents women whose contrasting choices show that faith cannot simply be inherited from, or erased by, a spouse.",
  "sources": [
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      "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)",
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    },
    {
      "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=66&verse=1"
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    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=66&verse=3"
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    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=66&verse=4"
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    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=66&verse=6"
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    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=66&verse=8"
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    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=66&verse=10"
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    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=66&verse=11"
    },
    {
      "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com",
      "url": "https://quran.com/at-tahrim/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": "The honey account · Bukhari 4912",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4912"
    },
    {
      "title": "Asiyah and Maryam · Bukhari 3411",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3411"
    },
    {
      "title": "The wives of Noah and Lot · Ibn Kathir",
      "url": "https://quran.com/at-tahrim/10/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    }
  ],
  "verses": [
    {
      "n": 1,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّبِىُّ لِمَ تُحَرِّمُ مَآ أَحَلَّ ٱللَّهُ لَكَ ۖ تَبْتَغِى مَرْضَاتَ أَزْوَٰجِكَ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ غَفُورٌۭ رَّحِيمٌۭ",
      "translation": "O Prophet, why do you prohibit [yourself from] what Allah has made lawful for you, seeking the approval of your wives? And Allah is Forgiving and Merciful."
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "arabic": "قَدْ فَرَضَ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ تَحِلَّةَ أَيْمَٰنِكُمْ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ مَوْلَىٰكُمْ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَلِيمُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ",
      "translation": "Allah has already ordained for you [Muslims] the dissolution of your oaths. And Allah is your protector, and He is the Knowing, the Wise."
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "arabic": "وَإِذْ أَسَرَّ ٱلنَّبِىُّ إِلَىٰ بَعْضِ أَزْوَٰجِهِۦ حَدِيثًۭا فَلَمَّا نَبَّأَتْ بِهِۦ وَأَظْهَرَهُ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ عَرَّفَ بَعْضَهُۥ وَأَعْرَضَ عَنۢ بَعْضٍۢ ۖ فَلَمَّا نَبَّأَهَا بِهِۦ قَالَتْ مَنْ أَنۢبَأَكَ هَٰذَا ۖ قَالَ نَبَّأَنِىَ ٱلْعَلِيمُ ٱلْخَبِيرُ",
      "translation": "And [remember] when the Prophet confided to one of his wives a statement; and when she informed [another] of it and Allah showed it to him, he made known part of it and ignored a part. And when he informed her about it, she said, \"Who told you this?\" He said, \"I was informed by the Knowing, the Acquainted.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "arabic": "إِن تَتُوبَآ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ فَقَدْ صَغَتْ قُلُوبُكُمَا ۖ وَإِن تَظَٰهَرَا عَلَيْهِ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ مَوْلَىٰهُ وَجِبْرِيلُ وَصَٰلِحُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۖ وَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ ظَهِيرٌ",
      "translation": "If you two [wives] repent to Allah, [it is best], for your hearts have deviated. But if you cooperate against him - then indeed Allah is his protector, and Gabriel and the righteous of the believers and the angels, moreover, are [his] assistants."
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "عَسَىٰ رَبُّهُۥٓ إِن طَلَّقَكُنَّ أَن يُبْدِلَهُۥٓ أَزْوَٰجًا خَيْرًۭا مِّنكُنَّ مُسْلِمَٰتٍۢ مُّؤْمِنَٰتٍۢ قَٰنِتَٰتٍۢ تَٰٓئِبَٰتٍ عَٰبِدَٰتٍۢ سَٰٓئِحَٰتٍۢ ثَيِّبَٰتٍۢ وَأَبْكَارًۭا",
      "translation": "Perhaps his Lord, if he divorced you [all], would substitute for him wives better than you - submitting [to Allah], believing, devoutly obedient, repentant, worshipping, and traveling - [ones] previously married and virgins."
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ قُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًۭا وَقُودُهَا ٱلنَّاسُ وَٱلْحِجَارَةُ عَلَيْهَا مَلَٰٓئِكَةٌ غِلَاظٌۭ شِدَادٌۭ لَّا يَعْصُونَ ٱللَّهَ مَآ أَمَرَهُمْ وَيَفْعَلُونَ مَا يُؤْمَرُونَ",
      "translation": "O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones, over which are [appointed] angels, harsh and severe; they do not disobey Allah in what He commands them but do what they are commanded."
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ ۖ إِنَّمَا تُجْزَوْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ",
      "translation": "O you who have disbelieved, make no excuses that Day. You will only be recompensed for what you used to do."
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ تُوبُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ تَوْبَةًۭ نَّصُوحًا عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمْ أَن يُكَفِّرَ عَنكُمْ سَيِّـَٔاتِكُمْ وَيُدْخِلَكُمْ جَنَّٰتٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ يَوْمَ لَا يُخْزِى ٱللَّهُ ٱلنَّبِىَّ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مَعَهُۥ ۖ نُورُهُمْ يَسْعَىٰ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَبِأَيْمَٰنِهِمْ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَآ أَتْمِمْ لَنَا نُورَنَا وَٱغْفِرْ لَنَآ ۖ إِنَّكَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدِيرٌۭ",
      "translation": "O you who have believed, repent to Allah with sincere repentance. Perhaps your Lord will remove from you your misdeeds and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow [on] the Day when Allah will not disgrace the Prophet and those who believed with him. Their light will proceed before them and on their right; they will say, \"Our Lord, perfect for us our light and forgive us. Indeed, You are over all things competent.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّبِىُّ جَٰهِدِ ٱلْكُفَّارَ وَٱلْمُنَٰفِقِينَ وَٱغْلُظْ عَلَيْهِمْ ۚ وَمَأْوَىٰهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ ۖ وَبِئْسَ ٱلْمَصِيرُ",
      "translation": "O Prophet, strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them. And their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the destination."
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًۭا لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ ٱمْرَأَتَ نُوحٍۢ وَٱمْرَأَتَ لُوطٍۢ ۖ كَانَتَا تَحْتَ عَبْدَيْنِ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا صَٰلِحَيْنِ فَخَانَتَاهُمَا فَلَمْ يُغْنِيَا عَنْهُمَا مِنَ ٱللَّهِ شَيْـًۭٔا وَقِيلَ ٱدْخُلَا ٱلنَّارَ مَعَ ٱلدَّٰخِلِينَ",
      "translation": "Allah presents an example of those who disbelieved: the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot. They were under two of Our righteous servants but betrayed them, so those prophets did not avail them from Allah at all, and it was said, \"Enter the Fire with those who enter.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "arabic": "وَضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًۭا لِّلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱمْرَأَتَ فِرْعَوْنَ إِذْ قَالَتْ رَبِّ ٱبْنِ لِى عِندَكَ بَيْتًۭا فِى ٱلْجَنَّةِ وَنَجِّنِى مِن فِرْعَوْنَ وَعَمَلِهِۦ وَنَجِّنِى مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ",
      "translation": "And Allah presents an example of those who believed: the wife of Pharaoh, when she said, \"My Lord, build for me near You a house in Paradise and save me from Pharaoh and his deeds and save me from the wrongdoing people.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "arabic": "وَمَرْيَمَ ٱبْنَتَ عِمْرَٰنَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا فَنَفَخْنَا فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِنَا وَصَدَّقَتْ بِكَلِمَٰتِ رَبِّهَا وَكُتُبِهِۦ وَكَانَتْ مِنَ ٱلْقَٰنِتِينَ",
      "translation": "And [the example of] Mary, the daughter of 'Imran, who guarded her chastity, so We blew into [her garment] through Our angel, and she believed in the words of her Lord and His scriptures and was of the devoutly obedient."
    }
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  "titles": [
    "A lawful thing made forbidden",
    "Release from an oath",
    "A confidence disclosed",
    "A call for two to repent",
    "Qualities of a faithful household",
    "Responsibility for oneself and family",
    "When excuses no longer answer",
    "Sincere repentance and completed light",
    "The messenger’s public responsibility",
    "Kinship does not replace faith",
    "Pharaoh’s wife asks for deliverance",
    "Maryam’s trust and obedience"
  ],
  "notes": [
    "The opening asks why the Prophet denied himself something lawful to please his wives. The item is not named in the verse. The directly cited honey report supplies one transmitted setting, kept separate from the wording.",
    "The chapter moves from a private resolve to the question of release from oaths. Divine protection, knowledge and wisdom close the verse. Its place in the sequence shows that a difficult promise need not be treated as moral independence.",
    "A private confidence is disclosed, and only part of what became known is addressed. The verse draws attention to trust and restraint within conversation. It gives no full transcript of the original confidential exchange.",
    "Two people are invited to repent, while cooperation against the messenger is challenged. The immediate household address is distinct from a judgment about every family disagreement. The verse keeps the possibility of turning back within its warning.",
    "The warning about possible replacement is conditional, not a statement that a divorce occurred. The qualities listed concern faith, devotion and repentance. Their presence directs attention beyond household position toward the character of a faithful life.",
    "The address now includes believers and their families. Responsibility begins with oneself and extends to those in one’s care. The description of the Fire gives urgency to guidance and example without supplying a picture of the unseen keepers.",
    "The scene concerns a day when excuses cannot undo completed conduct. It contrasts with the opportunity to repent in the next verse. The chapter therefore places the present possibility of change beside the limits of later explanation.",
    "Sincere repentance is joined to forgiveness, gardens and a prayer for completed light. Hope is not detached from moral return. The believers ask for both illumination and pardon, acknowledging continued dependence rather than claiming self-sufficient purity.",
    "The address returns to the messenger’s public task and commands firmness against opposition and hypocrisy. This is a particular scriptural address within the mission. The reader should preserve that setting when considering its serious language.",
    "The wives of Noah and Lot illustrate that proximity to righteous people cannot substitute for one’s own response. Ibn Kathir explains the betrayal as rejection in faith, explicitly distinguishing it from sexual infidelity.",
    "Pharaoh’s wife provides the contrasting example: her faith is not erased by her husband’s wrongdoing. Her prayer seeks a home near the Lord and rescue from oppression. The verse gives neither her personal name nor a royal dynasty.",
    "Maryam is named through her parentage, chastity, affirmation and obedience. Her example completes the contrast between household association and personal faith. The artwork leaves her unpictured and attends instead to the chapter’s themes of trust and devotion."
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 5,
      "title": "A confidence within the household",
      "summary": "A private matter raises questions of lawful boundaries, oaths, trust and repentance.",
      "reflection": "How can care for someone preserve both honesty and the trust of a confidence?"
    },
    {
      "start": 6,
      "end": 8,
      "title": "Return sincerely and complete our light",
      "summary": "Family responsibility leads to the invitation of sincere repentance, forgiveness and hope.",
      "reflection": "What would a sincere return change in the way you care for yourself and others?"
    },
    {
      "start": 9,
      "end": 12,
      "title": "Faith beyond the power of a household",
      "summary": "Contrasting examples show that closeness to a prophet does not replace faith, and an oppressive spouse cannot erase it.",
      "reflection": "Which convictions remain yours to uphold even when your surroundings pull another way?"
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "title": "622–632 CE · Madinan period",
      "year": 622,
      "endYear": 632,
      "body": "At-Tahrim is classified as Madinan. These years mark the broad period from the Hijrah to the end of the Prophet’s lifetime, not a precise date for the household incident or each verse.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/at-tahrim/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "During that period · the honey account",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Aisha’s report names honey at Zaynab’s house and an agreement between Aisha and Hafsah. The report quoted here does not date the incident to a specific calendar year.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4912"
    },
    {
      "title": "Earlier examples · Noah, Lot and Pharaoh’s household",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 10–11 place earlier households beside the present lesson. The text gives no event years, regnal names or grave locations for these examples.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/066.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "The promised day · repentance and light",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verse 8 looks toward a future day and the believers’ prayer for light and forgiveness. It is a theological horizon rather than a dated event in an earthly chronology.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/066.htm"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "madinah",
      "name": "Madinah · the chapter’s broad setting",
      "body": "The Madinan classification locates the chapter in the Prophet’s later mission. It does not identify a surviving domestic room or provide a floor plan of the household incident.",
      "lat": 24.4672,
      "lon": 39.6111,
      "source": "https://quran.com/at-tahrim/info",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "household",
      "name": "Zaynab’s home · named in the honey report",
      "body": "Bukhari 4912 names the home where honey was taken. The illustration evokes domestic trust through an imagined interior; it does not claim that its vessels or architecture reconstruct that particular room.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4912",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "pharaoh",
      "name": "Pharaoh’s household · no identified palace",
      "body": "The wife of Pharaoh asks to be delivered from him and his deeds. The chapter does not identify a dynasty or palace. The Egyptian setting is an artistic evocation, not a verified residence or tomb.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/066.htm",
      "image": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "gardens",
      "name": "Gardens and light · a promised welcome",
      "body": "The rivers and light in verse 8 belong to the promise associated with sincere repentance. They are represented symbolically and cannot be located as an ancient earthly garden.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/066.htm",
      "image": 1
    }
  ],
  "people": [
    {
      "id": "aisha-hafsah",
      "title": "Aisha and Hafsah · a transmitted household account",
      "body": "Aisha’s narration in Bukhari names herself and Hafsah in the honey incident. The chapter’s opening does not supply their names; this identification belongs to the accompanying report.",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4912",
      "label": "Read Bukhari 4912"
    },
    {
      "id": "wives-noah-lot",
      "title": "The wives of Noah and Lot · individual responsibility",
      "body": "Verse 10 uses their relationship to righteous messengers as a contrast with their own response. The cited commentary explains betrayal in faith, not adultery. No personal names or authenticated graves are supplied here.",
      "url": "https://quran.com/at-tahrim/10/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir",
      "label": "Read the commentary on 66:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "asiya",
      "title": "Asiyah · the wife of Pharaoh in tradition",
      "body": "The Quran calls her Pharaoh’s wife; Bukhari 3411 gives the name Asiyah. Her prayer in verse 11 expresses faith under oppression. Neither source used here identifies a dynasty, mummy or tomb.",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3411",
      "label": "Read Bukhari 3411"
    },
    {
      "id": "maryam",
      "title": "Maryam · daughter of Imran",
      "body": "The final verse names Maryam and praises her chastity, affirmation of the Lord’s words and obedience. It gives no location or date for the scene. She is described through the text and remains unpictured.",
      "verse": 12
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "title": "The chapter and its reported occasion",
      "body": "Quran.com records more than one account of the opening’s occasion. This reader directly cites the honey narration and does not treat every detail of different domestic reports as one established event.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/at-tahrim/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "The honey narration",
      "body": "Bukhari 4912 preserves Aisha’s account of honey, a complaint about its smell and the Prophet’s resulting oath. The verse’s general language and the report’s particular details are displayed as different kinds of evidence.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4912"
    },
    {
      "title": "What the cited commentary means by betrayal",
      "body": "Ibn Kathir explicitly reads the betrayal of Noah’s and Lot’s wives as a matter of faith, not sexual misconduct. That distinction matters when reading the brief English wording without the surrounding interpretation.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/at-tahrim/10/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "A name supplied by transmitted tradition",
      "body": "Bukhari 3411 names Asiyah alongside Maryam as exemplary women. The name supplements the Quran’s description of Pharaoh’s wife; it does not establish an archaeological identification for her or her husband.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3411"
    }
  ],
  "revelationNote": "Madinan. The 622–632 CE range is the broad mission period, not a settled date for the household incident. Reported occasion, Quranic wording and later identification are kept distinct."
}
