Exegesis of the verse: “And do not marry those [women] whom your fathers married, except for what has already occurred. Indeed, it was an immorality and a hatred, and it was an evil way.”

His saying, the Exalted: and His saying: And His saying: is the plural of "father," which includes the nearest father and those above him, namely the grandfathers, and includes the grandfather from the father's side and from the mother's side. This is because marriage is sufficient for prohibition with the slightest connection, unlike inheritance and maintenance, where in the chapter of inheritance and maintenance, grandfathers on the mother's side are not included among the fathers, but in the chapter of marriage, they are included, because the slightest connection is sufficient there. Have you not seen, for example, breastfeeding? Breastfeeding prohibits marriage, but it does not entail anything of what kinship entails, such as maintenance, bearing blood money, maintaining ties, or otherwise. So the intended meaning of "fathers" is the nearest and the most remote, from the father's side and from the mother's side. And His saying: this is an explanation of the relative pronoun, because the relative pronoun "what" and the conditional nouns are ambiguous and require explanation, so the explanation usually follows them as a verbal noun with "by whom" "except" here is a particle of resumption, not a particle of exception; it means "but". Some scholars describe such a case as a disconnected exception, while others express that "except" here means "but" and is not an exception at all. He said that an exception must be such that the excepted-from has entered into the excepted-from and then been removed, and a disconnected exception does not fit that description. Accordingly, if a disconnected exception comes, we take "except" to mean "but", and this is from the chapter of particles taking the place of one another. And His saying: means: but what has passed, there is no blame on you in it, and no sin befalls you in it. If someone were to say: they would not be blamed in it because the ruling had not yet been established, so how did He resume and say: ? The answer—and knowledge is with Allah, Mighty and Majestic—is that because the marriage contract is the most important of contracts and the most severe, He excepted what had passed so that one would not think that would apply to the ruling, that the ruling established last would apply to it. So it is as if He said: Do not marry what your fathers have married, and Allah has pardoned what has passed. And Allah has pardoned what has passed so that hearts may be at ease. This does not mean that the past contract remains and the person is left with it, but rather it is obligatory to separate him and divorce the woman who is his father's wife, because this prohibition remains and its description has not been removed. And it will come, if Allah wills, in the course of discussing the benefits of the interpretation of that. Then He said: "Indeed" the pronoun refers back to the verbal noun understood from His saying: meaning indeed your marriage. The pronoun may refer back to the verbal noun understood from the verb by the indication of the context, as in His saying, the Exalted: "It" meaning the justice understood from the word . So His saying "Indeed" [your] marriage of what your fathers have married was it a shame then? And is it a shame now? So on this, "was" here is stripped of time and came to affirm this, because "was" when stripped of time is for affirmation. So we say this is like His saying, the Exalted: the meaning of "was" is not in the past, but it is established with certainty that He is Forgiving and Merciful. Here we say meaning it is established that it is a shame. And His saying: meaning in itself meaning with Allah. So the marriage of what the fathers have married of women is a shame in itself, which minds and the Shari'ah find shameful, and it is also detestable, and detestation is the strongest of hatred meaning great in hatred. So detestation is the strongest of hatred the past tense verb is of the types of static verbs. A static verb is static in its context in this manner, provided it is an act of creation (insha'), being static. And I qualified that because if it comes to mean the act of harming or the bad thing, it becomes a transitive verb, as He said, the Exalted: "displeases" is the present tense of "displeased." So "displeased," if the intention is the creation of blame, becomes a static verb, and if the intention is the opposite of what pleases, it becomes a transitive verb. So a qualification is necessary. If you want to say "displeased" is a static verb, you must say if the intention is the creation of blame. And His saying: meaning a path. So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, described the marriage of what the fathers have married with three descriptions: that it is a shame, that it is detestable, and that it is a bad path. Yes, but is there a reference to inheritance in it, or do we know? It is true that one might be concerned about marrying his father's wife and others.