Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

divinely authorized social and marital order

divinely_authorized_social_and_marital_order

A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Revealed Command and Divine Authorization. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


islamic

  • The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 23573-23695 confidence: high

    The Prophet tells a favoured man to keep his wife and fear God; after Zaid decides to divorce her, God says she is married to the Prophet to remove blame about marrying former wives of adopted sons after divorce.

    The passage frames marriage, divorce, household access, veiling, and the Prophet’s marital permissions as matters settled or commanded by God.

    read in the book