The story of Khawla bint Tha’laba Surat al-Mujadilah, which is a Madani surah with has an interesting story behind it. Khawla bint Tha’laba was a female Companion of the Prophet (peace be on him), who was married to a man named ‘Aws ibn as-Samit. They had had an argument, and he said to her ‘You are to me as the back of my mother.’ This was a common statement among Arabs in Jahiliyya, and it was an infinite prohibition – it wasn’t a divorce, but the husband could not take his wife......

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