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A complete month would pass by during which we would not make a fire (for cooking), and our food
used to be only dates and water unless we were given a present of some meat.

(regarding His Statement): ‘They ask your instruction concerning the women. Say: Allah instructs you
about them …’ (4.127) It is about the female orphan who is under the guardianship of a man with
whom she shares her property and he does not want to marry her and dislikes that someone else
should marry her, lest he should share the property with him, so he prevents her from marrying. So
Allah forbade such a guardian to do so (i.e. to prevent her from marrying).