righteous, you haven’t addressed the main issue raised by me.
Allah (swt) has used the word “our women” and this clearly to any sane fair-minded person can only mean that there are more than one ‘woman’.
Do you dispute this?
If you answer this we can move on.
Our Women = Bibi Fatimah plus others would make more sense.
To me this the most important point the rest are secondary issues.
Allah (swt) has stated “OUR WOMEN” and that means more that one!!
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Its great to see, after a long time, a thread on GS where there is positive air of discussion and that too on something very rarely discussed here, i.e. the science of the Quran Majeed.
Brother, Ibn Sadique, Quran uses, more often than not, plural words for singular. This verse says "our women" while it was only one lady, i.e., Fatimah (a.s.), who was brought by the Prophet (saww) for Mubahila with the Christians of Najran- yet the Prophet (saww) did fully comply with the divine command.
Brother Armughal- It is preposterous to apply the principles of Urdu/Punjabi on the Arabic language, particularly the language of the Holy Quran ( I know this since I have close affiliation with both the languages). Quranic Arabic is so specialized that even a native Arab speaker is lost when reading the Quran. Moreover, all the narrators of these traditions regarding Ahlul Bayt (as) were the companions of the Prophet (saww) and their disciples who were with them in that very era. If such usage was not allowed in the speech and people were not familiar with such expressions, they would not have accepted these narrations, rather they would have been the first to put forward this objection; but none of them is on record to speak against it on this ground.