The Exegesis of the Saying of Allah the Exalted: “So that there would be no difficulty for the believers regarding the wives of their adopted sons, once they have fulfilled their desire with them, and the command of Allah is accomplished.”
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The wisdom behind this, he said: [Al-Ahzab 33:37] [Al-Ahzab 33:37] The lam here is for causation, and is a particle of the verbal noun because it is purely a verbal noun particle after the lam, meaning "because" and not a negation. And his saying means tightness and hardship. And his saying: [Al-Ahzab 33:37] Who are their adopted sons? They are the sons they adopted; these are the adopted sons. And these adopted sons are not sons, as Allah the Exalted said: [Al-Ahzab: 4]. And consider his saying: [Al-Ahzab 33:37] He did not say "the sons they adopted" because this sonship is negated by the Shari'ah and invalid by the Shari'ah. For this reason, he said: And by this, we know that the statement of those who said regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted: [An-Nisa: 23] that his saying: is a precaution against the adopted son, it becomes clear to us that this statement has no basis, because Allah never named the adopted son a son; rather, He negated his sonship, saying: [Al-Ahzab 33:4] And He said here: [Al-Ahzab 33:37] And if the adopted son is not called a son by the Shari'ah, then there is no need to bring a description to exclude him. Why? Because he is not included in the first place, so he does not need to be excluded by this description. [An-Nisa 4:23] But it is a precaution against the son through breastfeeding, as is the choice of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him). He said: [Al-Ahzab 33:37] To whom does the actor refer? To the adopted sons. And his saying: [Al-Ahzab 33:37] contains an indication that if that had been due to pressure from the adopting father, there would have been difficulty in that. Rather, it must be that they had fulfilled their desire with them and ended their desire for them.