History of surah The Pleading Woman

Name

It was called "Surah Al-Mujadala" because it began with the case of an argument with the wife of Aws bin Al-Samit when he said to her, "You are like my mother." She came to Prophet Muhammad and he answered her that she had been forbidden to her husband. She did not stop to reconsider him until God sent down these verses that clarified the verdict.

Period of Revelation

It is the one hundred and thirteenth surah in the series of revelations of surahs of the Quran. It was revealed after Surat Al-Munafiqun and before Surat Al-Tahrim, and this means that the revelation of Surat Al-Mujadalah took place between the Treaty of Hudaybiyah and the Battle of Tabuk, as Surah Al-Munafiqun was revealed after the Battle of Banu Al-Mustaliq in the fifth year of Hijrah. And Shams Al-Din Al-Sakhawi said, "Surat Al-Mujadalah was revealed after Surat Al-Munafiqin and before Surat Al-Hujurat."
Surat Al-Mujadalah was revealed to clarify a number of Islamic rules, but the main reason for its revelation was the ruling in the case of Aws bin Al-Samit with his wife Khawla. This woman complained to Prophet Muhammad about her husband after he forbade her. This woman is Khawla bint Thalabah. It was said that the reason for this case was that her husband had seen her praying, and she was of a beautiful figure. When she finished her prayer, he wanted to have her, but she refused, and he became angry and had bad manners.

Theme and topics

The purpose of Surat Al-Mujadala from verses 1 to 6. These verses highlight a very important issue, which is the problem of oppressing a woman like zihar, and zihar is when a man says to his wife, "You are like my mother." Islam has forbidden zihar, which was equivalent to divorce in the pre-Islamic period, but Islam has forbidden it and imposed an expiation on it, and the expiation for zihaar in Islam is freeing a slave or fasting for two consecutive months. Whoever is unable to fast should feed sixty poor people

The verses show that the provisions of the Shariah brought by the Holy Quran were not revealed to people all at once, but gradually, according to the events that occur, and this is closely related to the science of the reasons for the revelation of the Quranic verses in Islam.
The purpose of Surat Al-Mujadala from verses 7 to 11 deals with these verses which are about the etiquette of the council and how to increase the ranks of the scholars in the Muslim councils. Muslims, God has made it easy for people and commanded them to perform the obligatory prayer, zakat, obedience, etc., and the verses deal with sin and aggression The purpose of Surat Al-Mujadalah from verses 12 to 22. The last verses of Surat Al-Mujadalah are about the hypocrites who accompanied the Jews and brought them the news of the Muslims.  the verses commanded the Muslims not to support the enemies of Islam and Muslims under any circumstances