Continuation of the interpretation of the verse: “And the married women, except those your right hands possess. This is the command of Allah upon you…”

Continuation of the interpretation of the noble verse: . Here we ask about the prohibition, because we forgot to bring it up. How long does the prohibition between two sisters last? Until one dies, is divorced, or the marriage is annulled. If she is divorced, is there a distinction or not? We say: if she is divorced with a revocable divorce, it is obligatory to wait until the waiting period ends. That is, if he divorces his wife and she has a sister, and it is a revocable divorce—and you know what a revocable divorce is from before—it is obligatory by consensus to wait until the waiting period ends. If the divorce is final, or rather, if the separation is final by three divorces, or a divorce for compensation, or annulment, must he wait until the waiting period ends, or is he allowed to marry her sister? The well-known view among the Hanbali schools is that it is obligatory to wait until the waiting period ends, because she is still occupied by a right from the rights of the wife, occupied by a right from the rights of the husband, so it is obligatory to wait. Some scholars said: if the separation is final by annulment, or a divorce for compensation, or a triple divorce, it is valid for him to marry her sister, because she is not his wife now, and Allah said: , and now there is no gathering of two wives who have separated from him. If someone said: there is a distinction between major and minor finality, that would have a basis. That is, it is said: if it is final by a triple divorce or by separation through mutual oath-swearing, it is permissible for him to marry her sister immediately upon separation, because it is not possible for him to take her back in this case. And if the finality is by other means, such as a divorce for compensation or annulment, he does not marry her, because in this case he can take her back with a contract. If someone said this, it would have a basis. And some of the opinion of those who say it is permissible was a revocable divorce, but permissibility absolutely is closer to the principles. That is, if the divorce is final, whether it is of the kind that allows taking back or not, she becomes lawful; it is lawful to marry her sister, because he will not gather two sisters. If he gathers two women who are paternal aunts? What is a paternal aunt and her brother’s daughter? Between two women who are paternal aunts? One does not gather a woman and her paternal aunt. The paternal aunt is the sister? Yes. How is the paternal aunt the sister? That does not happen. If they become sisters, between sisters, sisters in Islam, meaning? The question now is: is it permissible to gather two paternal aunts? Because if it is prohibited between a woman and her paternal aunt, then between two paternal aunts it is even more so. Is it permissible to gather two maternal aunts? I say: is it permissible to gather by marriage, does he marry two maternal aunts, each one a maternal aunt to the other? Yes, originally he does not marry his paternal aunt, even individually. To gather two paternal aunts, meaning each one is a paternal aunt to the other, is it permissible or not? Give me the ruling? Is it permissible to gather two maternal aunts? It is not permissible. The issue is not very difficult, it is easy. I thought you were visualizing it. Two women who are paternal aunts, each one a paternal aunt to the other. Two women who are maternal aunts, each one a maternal aunt to the other? It is not permissible, it is not permissible?

The Shaykh : Well, what is it?
The student: Her paternal aunt from her mother, and her paternal aunt from her father.

The Shaykh : No, no, lineage. Leave it for next week, if Allah wills, on the condition that you do not review anything from the books of tafsir. If you review it, it will visualize it, and it is very easy, there is nothing easier than it. In any case, leave it as a riddle: how can one visualize that two women are each a paternal aunt to the other, or each a maternal aunt to the other? In any case, gathering them is forbidden. What is the evidence? and . If it is not permissible to gather a woman and her brother’s daughter, then it is the same between a woman and her paternal aunt, each one a paternal aunt to the other. There is no doubt in this, there is no doubt in the ruling, but the visualization is what a person might find unlikely, but it is closer than the strap of his sandal. If two men marry, each one marrying the other’s mother, their daughters become paternal aunts to each other. And if each one marries the other’s daughter, their daughters become maternal aunts to each other.