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Closing An-Nisa, Opening a Table of Contracts

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Closing An-Nisa, Opening a Table of Contracts

Hizb 11 closes An-Nisa with a passage insisting that believers make no distinction among God's earlier messengers, a rebuke aimed at communities that accept some prophets while rejecting others, and with the sura's own account of Jesus's crucifixion, stating that its opponents did not kill him or crucify him but that the matter was made to appear so to them, one of the Quran's most discussed and most theologically consequential single verses. The sura closes with a ruling on inheritance for a childless person, the kalala case, mirroring an earlier ruling near the sura's opening.

The hizb then opens Al-Maida, the Table, with an instruction to fulfil contracts, followed quickly by one of the Quran's best known theological statements, that the faith has this day been perfected and completed as a favor. Rules on lawful food follow, including the catch of the sea and animals taken in the hunt, alongside detailed instructions for purification before prayer, washing for those with access to water and a dry substitute, tayammum, for those without it.

The hizb closes with the story of the Israelites refusing to enter the Holy Land Moses had led them toward, choosing instead forty years of wandering in the wilderness as the consequence of that refusal, an episode the sura recalls as a warning against comparable hesitation.

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