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Surah Al-Baqarah Verses 224

And do not make [your oath by] Allah an excuse against being righteous and fearing Allah and making peace among people.

And Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

Surah Al-Baqarah Verses 225

Allah does not impose blame upon you for what is unintentional in your oaths, but He imposes blame upon you for what your hearts have earned.

and Allah is Forgiving and Forbearing.

Surah Al-Baqarah Verses 226

For those who swear not to have sexual relations with their wives is a waiting time of four months;

but if they return [to normal relations] – then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.

Surah Al-Baqarah Verses 227

And if they decide on divorce  then indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

Interpretation of verse 224 and verse 227 of Surat Al-Baqarah

Interpretation of verses 224 and 225 of Surat Al-Baqarah

The two verses talk about the oath.

 The word oath means the oath . It is from the mercy of Allah Almighty that He permitted going back on the oath in some cases and did not permit it in other cases. 

The verses will clarify that. It is permissible for us to go back on the oath if it prevents righteousness, maintaining family ties, or making peace between people. 

And whoever swears an oath about something and then sees something better than it, let him do good and expiate for his oath, because when a believer swears not to do good, Allah is placing an obstacle between him and good. For example, when someone asks you to be righteous to someone who wronged you, you may say:

 (I swore that I will not be righteous to this person). In doing so, you have made the oath by Allah an obstacle between you and righteousness. Allah is the One who commands righteousness, piety, and making peace between people. He, glory be to Him, hears the oath you have sworn, and knows your intention, whether it is good or evil, so do not use the oath as an excuse to prevent righteousness, piety, and making peace.

 It is also permissible to go back on an oath if it was idle, because if a person swears by God without intending to, and not by what your hearts have earned, and earning here means that the oath is a lie, then if a person swears and did not intend to lie 

And it is just idle talk, in this case God will not hold you accountable for it, and this is evidence that God is All-Encompassing and Forbearing. For example, the oath that is on people’s tongues, such as saying:

 (By God, if you had not done such-and-such, I would have done such-and-such with you), (By God, I will visit you),

 (By God, I did not mean to), or an oath based on suspicion;  For example, if you swear by saying: “By God, this happened,” and you are not certain that it actually happened, but you do not intend to lie.

 Because God Almighty will hold you accountable for the false oath that you have made in your heart and you break it, meaning you intend to lie, and thus you have committed a sin.

 For example, it is the oath and  that you know is false and you swear the opposite of what you know, such as if you saw someone stealing or killing and you swear by God that he did not steal or kill.

Interpretation of verse 226 and verse 227 of Surat Al-Baqarah

The verse talks about the ruling on ila, which is another type of oath, which is the husband's oath to his wife not to approach her in the intimate relationship that God has permitted for them, and it is an expression of his anger towards her when something happens that is disrespectful or causes instability in the marital life.

 Likewise, the wife has the right to have a reaction and declare her anger if anything happens from him that offends her or his respect for her or causes instability in the marital life, but the husband's reaction is different from the

 wife because God has given the wife mercy and affection even in declaring her anger, and God has given the husband the characteristic of guardianship. 

It was possible for him to criminalize her and forbid her absolutely, but God Almighty knows the secrets of souls and that a person must take a position to express his anger. 

The verse showed a case of the husband declaring his anger, which is that he swears not to approach his wife in an intimate relationship, and this was common among the Arabs before Islam.

  But they were aiming to humiliate the wife, not just to anger her and improve life. 

The man would swear not to approach his wife for a certain period, and before this period ended, he would swear again to extend the period for another period, and so on. Some of them would swear to their wives without specifying anything and leave them like this for life, neither divorced nor married, 

And she would take all her rights to feelings, love and intimacy, until the matter became a process of humiliation for women. God Almighty wants to end this matter, 

And He Almighty does not end it for one party over another, but rather from the justice of the wise and merciful Creator to His servants. It is from God’s mercy that He set a limit for it, which is only four months, so that the husband would not be unjust to his wife under the pretext of this anger. 

If they reconcile and the problem between them ends, then God is Forgiving and Merciful. If the four months pass and the boycott exceeds its duration, 

He orders the husband to return from the oath or to divorce her.  If the husband refuses, the judge will divorce her. If they decide to divorce, God hears and knows the husband’s intentions, so the man

 Should be aware that God knows, hears, and knows the intention and knows whether the oath was intended to humiliate his wife and torture her feelings, or whether he swore because he was extremely angry and needed to take a firm stance.