Al-Imtihan Verse: Difference between revisions

According to [[Hudaybiyya Peace Treaty]], Muslims and [[polytheist]]s agreed that if people escaped from [[Medina]] to [[Mecca]] they could live there, and if a person escaped from Mecca to Medina then they had to be returned to polytheists. After the treaty, a woman called "Subay'a" or "Umm Kulthum" converted to [[Islam]] and went from Mecca to Medina. The polytheists asked Muslims to return her to Mecca. According to exegetes, al-Imtihan Verse was [[revealed]] on this occasion and the [[Prophet (s)]] was commanded to examine the belief of women who alleged to have believed in Islam, and if their belief was assured, then they would not be returned to Mecca.

According to [[Qur'anic exegete]]s, the refusal to return believing women to Mecca was not contrary to the letter of Hudaybiyya Peace Treaty, because the treaty was silent about women. [[Allama Tabataba'i]] also believes that the treaty only referred to the return of men.

The verse ten of Qur'an 60 (al-Mumtahina) is known as al-Imtihan Verse or the Verse of Examination. The verse is concerned with women who fled Mecca to Medina and claimed that they had converted to Islam. On this verse, such women had to be examined to make sure that they were believers in Islam. According to [[Ibn Abbas]], the belief of these women was examined by [[testimony]] or [[Oath|swearing]].  

[[Al-Tabrisi]], an important Shiite exegete of the [[Qur'an]], believes that the examination was intended to show that Meccan women did not escape Mecca from the fear of their husbands or out of desires to move to a new place and that their only motivation was their conversion to Islam.

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*The material for this article is mainly taken from {{ia|[[:fa:آیه امتحان|آیه امتحان]]}} in Farsi WikiShia.

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