Tazkirul Quran Tafsir: Az-Zukhruf Ayah 13

43:13

لتستووا على ظهوره ثم تذكروا نعمة ربكم اذا استويتم عليه وتقولوا سبحان الذي سخر لنا هاذا وما كنا له مقرنين ١٣

لِتَسْتَوُۥا۟ عَلَىٰ ظُهُورِهِۦ ثُمَّ تَذْكُرُوا۟ نِعْمَةَ رَبِّكُمْ إِذَا ٱسْتَوَيْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ وَتَقُولُوا۟ سُبْحَـٰنَ ٱلَّذِى سَخَّرَ لَنَا هَـٰذَا وَمَا كُنَّا لَهُۥ مُقْرِنِينَ ١٣

لِتَسۡتَوُۥاْﱛ

عَلَىٰﱜ

ظُهُورِهِۦﱝ

ثُمَّﱞ

تَذۡكُرُواْﱟ

نِعۡمَةَﱠ

رَبِّكُمۡﱡ

إِذَاﱢ

ٱسۡتَوَيۡتُمۡﱣ

عَلَيۡهِﱤ

وَتَقُولُواْﱥ

سُبۡحَٰنَﱦ

ٱلَّذِيﱧ

سَخَّرَﱨ

لَنَاﱩ

هَٰذَاﱪ

وَمَاﱫ

كُنَّاﱬ

لَهُۥﱭ

مُقۡرِنِينَﱮ

١٣ﱯ

so that you may sit firmly on their backs, and remember your Lord’s blessings once you are settled on them, saying, “Glory be to the One Who has subjected these for us, for we could have never done so ˹on our own˺.

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You are reading a tafsir for the group of verses 43:13 to 43:19

One way of ascribing partners to God is to assume that He can have offspring, for example, holding angels to be the daughters of God, or Christ to be the son of God, or subscribing to the theory of the unity of existence (wahdat al-wujud) or monism which interprets all things of the universe to be part and parcel of God. All such beliefs are baseless suppositions or flights of imagination, which are not borne out by reasoning. Here, certain of the gender characteristics of women have been dealt with under two headings—one is that by nature she is given to self-adornment and the other is that at times of dispute she is unable to vindicate herself. These weaknesses in a woman are facts, and that is why in Islam the distribution of work is such that the responsibility for outside work lies with the men and that of inside work with the women.