The Exegesis of the Saying of Allah the Exalted: (( ... and you conceal in your soul what Allah will make manifest, and you fear the people, but Allah has more right that you should fear Him. So when Zayd had fully satisfied his desire from her, We married her to you ... ))

Allah the Exalted said: The waw is a conjunction conjoined to His saying: meaning, and remember also when you concealed in your soul what Allah will make manifest. Allah the Exalted kept ambiguous what he concealed, but He made clear that He would make it manifest. We look at what Allah Mighty and Majestic made manifest. This is a relative pronoun in the position of the object of and is the subject and is its predicate, and the sentence is the relative clause, having no grammatical position. Meaning, you conceal in your soul that which Allah will make manifest. Here He did not say, "and you conceal in your soul what Allah will make manifest," but rather He said: So He used the nominal sentence... The sentence here is nominal, and He used the nominal sentence indicating permanence, as if this is a matter that must happen, that Allah Mighty and Majestic must make it manifest. And this is what happened. The meaning of is "He will make it manifest," and it is the counterpart to the saying except that the correspondence differed in form. The form of concealment came in the present tense, while the form of manifestation came in the nominal sentence. He said: He will make manifest his love for her, and that if Zayd divorced her, he would marry her. This is what the author claimed, following many of the exegetes, that what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) concealed was his love for this woman, so Allah made that manifest. But if you reflect on the verses, you will find that what he concealed was the intention to marry her by the command of Allah Mighty and Majestic. For Allah the Exalted commanded him to marry her after Zayd ibn Harithah. And this, may Allah know best, was to comfort her heart, since she had married Zayd ibn Harithah, who was a freed slave, while she was of pure Arab descent. So Allah Mighty and Majestic wanted to reward her for her submission to the advice of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) by having the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) marry her. This is from one aspect. From another aspect, Allah commanded him to marry her so that what was well-known among them in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance would be removed. What was it? That it is not permissible for one who adopts a son to marry his wife. So this is from the category of clarification by action, which is stronger than clarification by speech. He said: He will make manifest his love for her, and that if Zayd divorced her, he would marry her. And if we look at what Allah made manifest, we find that it was his marriage to her, not that he loved her. Allah did not say in the Qur'an, "You love her," at any time, nor did He address the matter of love.