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Studying Surah Nisa - Day 1 - Holding the ties of kinship

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Bismillah hir rahman nir rahim
In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful


"O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife [Hawwa (Eve)], and from them both He created many men and women and fear Allah through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship). Surely, Allah is Ever an All-Watcher over you."

I started my study of Surah Nisa today which was actually my goal of Ramadan 2019. Unfortunately, I couldn’t complete it during Ramadan and lost touch of it even after Ramadan. Today, I thought of starting it from beginning and also capturing my learnings from the study. I covered the first verse today.

The Surah starts by addressing the whole of mankind. Allah swt gives the following commands to all of us (the whole mankind) in this verse -
  1. To be dutiful to our lord (Allah Swt)
  2. To fear Allah swt
  3. To not cut the relationships of the womb (which in other word can also mean blood relations)
  4. Allah is ever an all watcher over all of us

The verse also talks about -
  1. Allah swt created Adam PBUH
  2. From him Allah swt created Eve PBUH
  3. and from both of them Allah swt created all of us

My learnings

Encouraged Universal Brotherhood
By saying that all of us are created from the same parent, Allah swt is encouraging universal brotherhood. What it means is that everyone on the face of the earth is my brother (and sister) in humanity. So, I should not think of them as outside the family, its one big family. How can then I cheat anyone? Or mistreat anyone? or hurt anyone? etc because we don’t do that with our brothers and sisters.

Holding blood relations
In today’s world, we see a lot of siblings in not good terms with each others. We also see father and son, mother and daughter and the combination of above to be not in good terms with each others. In this verse, Allah swt commands us to not cut the relations at all. In fact in one of the Hadith of the Prophet PBUH, he said that the one who severs the blood relation will not enter paradise! (Bukhari) Now that’s a big big big statement to make! This tells us how important are blood relations in Islam and regardless of what happened between the family, we should make sure that the family members don’t act like enemies. We should make sure that we resolves all of our differences and live harmoniously amongst ourselves.

Mothers are extremely important
Though, this verse directly doesn’t speak about the importance of mothers, its interesting to see how Allah swt decides to put across the point of holding blood relations. So, if relations that are from the mothers are so important, we can only imagine how important is it to keep relation with our mother. May be later, I will write on the importance of Mothers in islam.

Allah swt is watching us
Just before the verse ends, Allah swt mentions that he is ever watcher over all of us. Remember the time when we commit something wrong just because we feel that no one is watching or no one will come to know? All of us have had such incidents in life but here Allah swt says that he is watching us regardless of how alone we are, regardless of how much in seclusion we are and regardless of how much in dark we are. This last part should actually be enough for us to make sure we act right in public and in private.

Overall, its a great start to the study of this surah, the first verse itself gives so much to ponder on. So, I felt I will stop here for today, will continue to post as I keep studying this surah inshAllah.


And Allah swt knows best.

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