Maryam Amir – Why did Allah reveal the verse about believing men and women

			Why was this first revealed? It's one of
		

			the favorite verses of so many people, indeed,
		

			Muslim men and Muslim women, and it continues
		

			talking about beautiful qualities of the believers. One
		

			of the reasons for revelation mentioned by Bateada
		

			is that a group of the woman companions
		

			went to the mothers of the believers. The
		

			mothers of the believers have a set of
		

			verses in which the Quran is addressing specifically
		

			them that starts a few verses before this
		

			one and ends right before this one starts.
		

			So this group of companions
		

			these women go to the mothers of the
		

			believers
		

			and they say, you were mentioned and we
		

			were not, and had there been some goodness
		

			in us, we would have been mentioned too.
		

			I wanna contextualize this for us because the
		

			entire Quran says, oh, believers, and that generally
		

			means all men and all women. Sometimes, the
		

			verses are specific to men or sometimes the
		

			verses are specific to women. But overall, the
		

			Quran addresses everyone. And the women companions are
		

			aware of revelation being revealed addressing them and
		

			their reality as well. Quran was revealed in
		

			response to Khaleb Radiallahu Anha and the dua
		

			that she made. The Quran mentions women specifically
		

			many times,
		

			but the woman companions wanted something special for
		

			them too, just like the mothers of the
		

			believers
		

			received. Now, if that's the case, why doesn't
		

			this verse only talk about women? If women
		

			were the ones asking, why does it even
		

			mention men? Ibn Ashur, a Qur'anic commentator
		

			explains
		

			the tawra
		

			address men mainly and once in a while
		

			would specify
		

			rulings for women.
		

			However, the Quran
		

			is for men and women both and only
		

			specifies rulings for men or rulings for women
		

			as the exception. So he mentions that the
		

			verse starts with inna, which is for sure,
		

			for real, indeed.
		

			These qualities, these rulings are for men and
		

			women both. If you go back and look
		

			at the verses that are specific to the
		

			mothers of the believers, you will see qualities
		

			that are mentioned in those verses which parallel
		

			many of the qualities here. Allah revealed revelation
		

			just because some women felt
		

			like they wanted something special for them. I
		

			want you to know that Allah affirms
		

			that he hears you when you call and
		

			he answers when you do. And if you
		

			want to hear Allah talking to you, you
		

			can open the Quran.