Surah Ahzab ayat 28 Tafsir Quran 33:28

﴿يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ قُل لِّأَزْوَاجِكَ إِن كُنتُنَّ تُرِدْنَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتَهَا فَتَعَالَيْنَ أُمَتِّعْكُنَّ وَأُسَرِّحْكُنَّ سَرَاحًا جَمِيلًا﴾
[ الأحزاب: 28]

33:28 O Prophet, say to your wives, "If you should desire the worldly life and its adornment, then come, I will provide for you and give you a gracious release.

O Prophet! Say to your wives — who were nine and they had asked him for some of the adornments of this world which he did not possess — ‘If you desire the life of this world and its adornment come now I will provide for you in other words the compensation to be provided for divorce and release you in a gracious manner I will divorce you and will not coerce you to stay.

O you the prophet, say to your wives: If you are interested in life here and in its mundane splendour then come I will fit you out with what is necessary for your enjoyment and your indemnity and set you free gracefully

(33:28) O Prophet, *41 tell your wives: 'If you seek the world and its embellishments, then come and I will make some provision for you and release you in an honourable way.

O Prophet, say to your wives, "If meaning

*41) The verses from here to 35 were sent down in the period contiguous to the Battle of the Trench and the raid on Bani Quraizah, whose background we have touched upon in the Introduction to this Surah.
According to a tradition related in Muslim on the authority of Hadrat Jabir bin `Abdullah, " One day when Hadrat Abu Bakr and Hadrat 'Umar visited the Holy Prophet, they saw that his wives were sitting around him and he was quiet.
Addressing Hadrat `Umar, he said: `They are sitting around me as you see: they are asking for money for household expenditure'. " At this both the Companions rebuked their daughters and said, " Why do you embarrass the Holy Prophet and demand from him that which he does not have. " This event shows how hard pressed the Holy Prophct was economically at that time and how distressed and embarrassed he was feeling at his wives' demand for domestic expenditure during the period when a bitter conflict was going on between Islam and paganism.

 

( O Prophet! ) i.e. Muhammad ( pbuh ) ( Say unto thy wives: If ye desire the world’s life ) what is in the life of this world ( and its adornment ) and its splendour, ( come! I will content you ) with divorce ( and will release you with a fair release ) according to the Sunnah.

O Prophet (Muhammad SAW)! Say to your wives: If you desire the life of this world, and its glitter, Then come! I will make a provision for you and set you free in a handsome manner (divorce).

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