Divorce Law, a King Chosen, and a Throne Verse Ahead

Hizb 4 continues directly from the pilgrimage material that opened Hizb 3, then turns to an extensive treatment of divorce: waiting periods before remarriage, provisions for widows, rules on breastfeeding and the compensation due a nursing mother, and the etiquette of oaths taken and broken. It includes the well known instruction that fighting is prescribed for believers even though they dislike it, framed as a hard duty rather than an eager one.

The hizb then narrates the Israelites asking their prophet for a king to lead them into battle, the appointment of Talut, known to the Bible as Saul, over the objections of those who thought him insufficiently wealthy or well born, and the young David's killing of the giant Jalut, Goliath, a victory the text credits to God's will rather than to David's own strength alone.

Hizb 4 ends at verse 252, immediately before Al-Baqara's Throne Verse, Ayat al-Kursi, already recorded in this atlas as its own scripture portion. That placement is a reminder of how the sixty-part division and the separate catalog of individually named verses kept here can overlap: a single celebrated verse can sit inside a hizb built for pacing recitation while also standing on its own as a portion readers single out and recite separately.