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An-Nisa’ - The Women

(Revealed at Mecca)

177 Verses in 24 Sections

Sections Of Surah An-Nisa

  1. Responsibilities of the guardians of the orphans.

  2. Law of Inheritance

  3. Dealing with women.

  4. Women who may be taken in wedlock.

  5. Woman’s rights over her property.

  6. Disagreement and reconciliation between husband and wife.

  7. Cleanliness External and Internal.

  8. Leaning to injustice and evils, to be avoided.

  9. Hypocrites’ refusal to accept the Apostle’s judgment.

  10. Believers to be cautioned.

  11. The hypocrites’ attitude towards the believers.

  12. Dealing with the hypocrites.

  13. Murder and its punishment.

  14. Believers remaining with the enemy.

  15. To cut short prayer while travelling.

  16. Not to side the dishonest.

  17. Secret councils of the hypocrites.

  18. Idolatry prohibited.

  19. Dealing with orphans and women.

  20. Equity to everyone - Jewish hypocrisy condemned.

  21. Fate of the Hypocrites.

  22. Violation of the covenant by the Jews.

  23. The Qur’an testified in the previous scriptures.

  24. Apostleship of Jesus-the Law of Inheritance.

Important Topics.

  1. All men created of a single Self (being). (Verse 1)

  2. A just return to the orphans, their properties ordained. (Verse 2)

  3. The strictly conditioned polygamy permitted. (Verse 3)

  4. Man if unable to maintain justice among the women to marry only one woman at a time. (Verse 3)

  5. Devouring the property of the orphans, is compared to Eating Fire. (Verse 10)

  6. Behest, Distribution of hereditary shares-Details about the respective rights, etc., laid down. (Verse 11-12)

  7. Dealing with women Guilty of Indecency. (Verse 15)

  8. Repentance acceptable only for evils unintentionally done. (Verse 17)

  9. Repentance is not for those who continue doing evil until the approach of death. (Verse 18)

  10. Marriageable relations. (Verse 23-24)

  11. Shunning of greater things causes the wiping out of the smaller sins. (Verse 31)

  12. The procedure to settle disputes between man and wife. (Verse 35)

  13. Belief in the Unity of God and goodness to parents enjoined. (Verse 36)

  14. Punishment for being niggardly - and enjoining it on others. (Verse 37)

  15. The Holy Prophet Muhammad will be a witness over all the witnesses from various peoples, on the Day of Judgment. (Verse 41)

  16. Discipline against Intoxication. (Verse 43)

  17. Ordinance regarding the necessary cleanliness, for prayer in particular. (Verse 43)

  18. The ordinance regarding ‘Tayammum’ (The emergency Ablution). (Verse 43)

  19. God curses infidelity-cursing the evil and the wicked a godly activity. (Verse 46)

  20. Never will God pardon polytheism, and other than that God might pardon whatever he pleases. (Verse 48, 116)

  21. The children of Abraham granted the Book, Wisdom and the Great Kingdom. (Verse 54)

  22. Ordinance to obey God, the Apostle and those who hold the Command (from God). (Verse 59)

  23. The implicit obedience to the Holy Prophet Muhammad expected of a believer. (Verse 59)

  24. From God comes only benefit and from man comes evil (Verse 79)

  25. Obedience to the Apostle is the obedience to God. (Verse 80)

  26. Meditation on Qur’an commended. (Verse 82)

  27. ‘Shafa’at’ i.e., Intercession-Good as well as Bad (Verse 85)

  28. Certainty given about the coming of the day of the Final Judgment. (Verse 87)

  29. Punishment for the intentional killing of a believer. (Verse 93)

  30. Not to disbelieve in the individual being a Muslim, if the individual wishes with peace (salutes in Islamic way). (Verse 94)

  31. The idle ones who sit quietly, and those who strive in the way of God with their wealth and (life)-are not equal (Verse 95)

  32. Grades in the forgiveness and the mercy granted by God. (Verse 96)

  33. The recompense of the one who immigrates in the way of the Lord and in his movement towards God and His Apostles, if dies on the way. (Verse 100)

  34. To shorten the Prayers during journey- The Salat al-Qasr. (Verse 101)

  35. The Daily prayers are the divinely timed ordinances. (Verse 103)

  36. To always seek refuge in God’s forgiveness. (Verse 106)

  37. Whoever acts hostile, after the guidance to the truth becoming manifest to him. (Verse 115)

  38. Whoever among the believers, man or woman, work good deeds, shall be justly paid by God. (Verse 124)

  39. No religion is better than Islam (Submission to God) and the Creed of Abraham, the Upright. (Verse 125)

  40. To deal with the orphans with full justice. (Verse 127)

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