{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_058_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_058_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_058_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/058.htm","summary":"This is a chapter (surah) from the Quran \u2014 specifically Surah Al-Mujadila (\"The Wrangler,\" Chapter 58), here rendered in an archaic English translation. The surah opens with a specific legal case: a woman complains to the Prophet Muhammad about her husband invoking a pre-Islamic Arab divorce formula called *zihar* (declaring his wife \"like his mother's back\"), and God's revelation establishes that this formula is invalid and requires expiation \u2014 freeing a slave, or fasting two consecutive months, or feeding sixty poor people \u2014 before the couple may resume marital relations. The chapter then pivots to broader social and communal concerns, addressing the conduct of hypocrites and opponents of the Muslim community in Medina: their secret conspiratorial meetings, their insincere greetings to the Prophet, and their alliances with enemies. A distinctively practical passage instructs believers to give charity before private audiences with the Prophet, reflecting logistical pressures of his accessibility. The surah's overarching argument is that God's omniscience renders all private speech and hidden allegiances transparent, so outward hypocrisy is futile. It closes with a sharp binary: true believers cannot love those who oppose God, and God's party (*hizb Allah*) will ultimately prevail over Satan's party (*hizb al-Shaytan*).","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"058","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":886}