From: ahmed-shakil@cs.yale.edu (Shakil Waiz Ahmed)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: Re: Taking care of a woman (was Re: Talaq over phone)
Date: 12 Nov 1992 22:35:13 -0500
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In article <samaddar.721587427@dumbo>, samaddar@siemens.com (Sumitro Samaddar) writes:
> ahmed-shakil@cs.yale.edu (Shakil Waiz Ahmed) writes:
> 
> >Muhammed (pbuh) had proposed the marriage between Zainab and Zaid, so
> >when Zaid divorced Zainab, he saw it as his duty to take care of her.
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Firstly, Is it really necessary to marry someone in order to take care
> of her? 

No.  But it is a way.

> What happens to all the money collected by "Zakat"? 

Would you like a full account of every dollar spent in Zakat for the
last ten years perhaps? :)

> Isn't that meant for taking care of people in need?

Yes.  But the concept that money is all that constitutes need says
more about your attitude than anything else...

> Secondly, why couldn't Muhammed (pbuh) find another husband for
> Zainab?

Can't really speak for him, but common sense tells me that someone who
has made a mistake once is unlikely to do it again.  Since Muhammed
(pbuh) had arranged the first marriage and it had failed, he
presumably felt a degree of responsibility.  Now I don't know about
you, but when I have made a mistake, I usually try not to do it
again...

> Islam doesn't view a divorced woman in any negative way. 

That is correct.

> If Zaid let
> Muhammed down, it does not imply that the next husband he chose for
> Zainab would also do so. 

Yes.  But I'm sure there is a psychological effect...

> What if Zainab was married to and divorced by
> Muhammed's real son (if he had any)?
> 
> Thirdly, did Muhammed find anything wrong with the concept of someone
> marrying his biological son's ex-wife? If so, did he ever explain why?
> If not so, did he ever explain why?

Yes, there is something wrong with it.  I quote from Shakir's
translation of the Holy Qur'an.  Please refer to Surah Al Nisa (4),
verse 23:

   23. Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters
   and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal
   aunts and brothers' daughters and sisters' daughters and your
   mothers that have suckled you and your foster-sisters and mothers
   of your wives and your step-daughters who are in your guardianship,
   (born) of your wives to whom you have gone in, but if you
   have not gone in to them, there is no blame on you (in marrying
   them), and the wives of your sons who are of your own loins
   and that you should have two sisters together, except what has
   already passed; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

-- Shakil Ahmed
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