Exegesis of the verse: “And if you fear that you will not act justly with orphans, then marry what is pleasing to you of women…”

Then Allah the Exalted said: . means you feared and anticipated. It was said that the meaning is : if you knew. The correct view is that it is based on the first meaning, namely that you feared. And His saying: means that you do not act justly . In the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, a man would have an orphan under his care, meaning in his household, and he would delay her marriage for himself until he married her, or he would marry her while being averse to her, but only for the sake of looking after her and providing for her maintenance. So Allah the Exalted clarified in this verse that if they feared they would not act justly with the orphans, they should turn away from them