This man is not a learned scholar but a gentleman running a list server on Women and Islam. Please let me know if you find my sending you this material intrusive and if so, I will refrain from doing so in the future. So where do we get the notion that its talking about the husband-wife relationship. Ghaib, as we know, refers to the unseen, the hidden. Not disloyalty to the husband.
Peace is better.
Allah is ever Informed of what ye do. So, the sense is that this verse is talking about society, not a family. Reply I am extremely sorry for the undue delay in my response, but it was primarily because of the great number of questions that I received and because of the fact that I do not have any assistance in my work on the web. Let us begin by taking a look at two of the important words of the related verse. When it is used with reference to a relationship or a position or an interaction, it implies refusal to accept the position of the other relation, or another position or another party to the interaction.