Continuation of the interpretation of the verse: ((And if you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphans, then marry what is pleasing to you from women...)).
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Continuation of the interpretation of the noble verse: [An-Nisa 4:3]. Then Allah the Exalted said: [An-Nisa 4:3]. means you feared and anticipated, and it was said that the meaning is : if you know, and the correct view is that it is on the first meaning, namely: 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 girl 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. To what? He said: [An-Nisa 4:3], meaning marry the woman that is pleasing to you, meaning you find her good and approve of her. For this reason, he said: [An-Nisa 4:3], so he brought "what" instead of "from", because "from" is for a rational being if a specific person is intended, but if a description is intended, "what" is used. They said, and from this is the saying of the Arabs "Glory be to what You have subjected to us", meaning the camels, intending "Glory be to whom?" meaning "Glory be to Allah," but because this speaker intended the description, which is the perfection of the power of Allah Mighty and Majestic and His subjection of them, he used "what." He said: [An-Nisa 4:3]. And His saying: [An-Nisa 4:3], is it connected to "marry"? Meaning marry from women what is pleasing to you? Or is it an explanation of what is in His saying: [An-Nisa 4:3]? The second is closer, and the first is permissible, but the second is closer. So they should marry what is pleasing to you from women. These three words, the grammarians say, do not decline, and what prevents them from declining is the descriptive nature and the evenness, because the meaning of is two by two, three by three, four by four, so what prevents the declension is the descriptive nature and the evenness. And on this basis, we say is a state of , meaning the state of being two by two, three by three, and four by four, meaning marry in pairs of two, or in groups of three, or in groups of four, and the meaning is not that you marry two and three and four, contrary to those who claimed that and said that the verse indicates the permissibility of marrying nine, because two and three are five, and four is four, the total is nine, and this is far from this style in the Arabic language; this style is for division, meaning some of you marry two by two, some of you marry three by three, and some of you marry four by four, because the address the address is to the group, the address is to the group, not to one person, so if the address is to the group, it is distributed among the group, and the meaning is: some of you marry two, some of you marry three, and some of you marry four. And indicating this is the hadith reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) that a man does not marry more than four. As for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), he is distinguished by multiple characteristics in marriage, among which is that he marries more than four, among which is that he marries by gift, among which is that it is not obligatory for him to be just to any of them according to one of the opinions, among which is that after he gave them the choice and they chose Allah and His Messenger, it became forbidden for him to marry anyone other than them until he died, and among which is that his wives do not become lawful for anyone after him to marry. So the Messenger (may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him) was distinguished by characteristics that do not exist in anyone else. And this verse, in terms of indication, is like His saying the Exalted: [Fatir 35:1]. And if Allah the Exalted had intended to say, meaning if Allah the Exalted had intended to clarify to His servants the lawfulness of women up to nine, He would have said: "Then marry what is pleasing to you from women, two or three or four or six up to nine," and He would not use this ambiguous style, because the Qur'an was revealed as a clarification of everything. And His saying: , the one was not mentioned, because the context is a context of choice and a context of giving the self its share; if a person fears that he will not deal justly with the orphans, we say: if you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphan girl, then before you are women in quantity and quality. When is the quantity? Two or more. The quality? He said: [An-Nisa 4:3], so before you the door is open to what you desire from women in quality and quantity. And it is known that the one does not have quantity; one is one. Quantity means increase in number from two or more. [An-Nisa 4:3] means you thought [An-Nisa 4:3], meaning then marry one and do not increase beyond her. [An-Nisa 4:3] No, because what the right hand possesses is not married; the right hand possession is copulated by possession, not by marriage. For this reason, it is forbidden for a man to marry his slave woman. Correct? It is forbidden for a man to marry his slave woman? It is forbidden to marry his slave woman, because she is lawful to him by a contract stronger than marriage, which is right hand possession, and the weaker does not return to the stronger, unlike the reverse, where the stronger returns to the weaker. If a man buys his wife, the marriage is annulled and she becomes lawful to him by right hand possession. Did you understand? But if he has a slave woman, he cannot marry her, because he possesses her by a contract stronger than marriage, for the master owns the neck and the ... unlike the husband, who owns only ... . So it is not correct to say that His saying: [An-Nisa 4:3] is conjoined to His saying: , because the meaning differs. Rather, the meaning is: then marry one or enjoy what your right hands possess, or a word similar to that. The important thing is that it is not conjoined to what came before, except after the conjunction of sentences, where a suitable verb is estimated for His saying: [An-Nisa 4:3]. "That", what is referred to is marrying one when fearing lack of justice? Or is what is referred to a person marrying two or three or four when fearing lack of justice with the orphans? Or both? Both, meaning , meaning your marriage two by two, three by three, and four by four when you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphans, or your marriage to one when you fear that you will not act justly. means closer , meaning that you do not transgress. This is the established meaning of the verse. As for what is reported from al-Shafi'i that the meaning is "closer to not having many dependents," that is a very weak saying, very weak. Why? Because having many dependents is desirable to Allah, and because dependents increase when a man copulates with what his right hand possesses. And Allah says: [An-Nisa 4:3]. So if a man has a hundred slave women, a hundred maids, and copulates with each one, how many children come to him in a year? A hundred children, he gets a hundred children in a year. So if that is the case, how can we say that if a man copulates with what his right hand possesses, it is closer to not having dependents? For this reason, this saying is considered very weak because it contradicts the objective of the Lawgiver in increasing children, and because having few children does not occur when a man copulates with his slaves.