Salutations to be exchanged on entering houses.
Behaviour of the Muslims towards the Apostle.
He is to be more respectfully addressed than other people.
Chapter XXXIII.
Sūratu ʾl-Aḥzāb.
The Chapter of the Confederates.
Muḥammad is warned against the hypocrites.
Wives divorced by the formula, “Thou art henceforth to me like my mother’s back,” are not to be considered as real mothers, and as such regarded as unlawful.
Neither are adopted sons to be looked upon as real sons.
The real ties of kinship and consanguinity are to supersede the tie of sworn brotherhood.