Quran Universe
24:18

وَيُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمُ ٱلۡأٓيَٰتِۚ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

Wayubayyinu Allahu lakumu alayati waAllahu AAaleemun hakeemun

And Allah makes clear to you the verses, and Allah is Knowing and Wise.

Word by word
  1. وَيُبَيِّنُAnd Allah makes clear
  2. ٱللَّهُAnd Allah makes clear
  3. لَكُمُto you
  4. ٱلۡأٓيَٰتِۚthe Verses
  5. وَٱللَّهُAnd Allah
  6. عَلِيمٌ(is) All-Knower
  7. حَكِيمٌAll-Wise
An-Nur · 24:18Madinah

He spells it out because He knows us.

Clear verses from the Knowing, the Wise

What Allah gives after the trial
clear versesrulings and decrees
from
All-Knowingwhat is right for us
All-Wisein what He sets
Why the details
too many rulesjust let us figure it out
clarity as careHe knows what helps us

After a month of confusion and pain, Allah made matters plain. Ibn Kathir explains He makes clear His rulings and decrees, and He knows what is right for His servants and is Wise in what He lays down.

When a family crisis hits, everyone has an opinion. Your aunt says one thing, a video says another, your own heart says a third. In the middle of that noise, clear guidance is a gift. It comes from the One who actually knows you.

Clear rules feel like they limit me.

Clarity from the All-Knowing is care for me, not a cage.

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When you face a confusing choice this week, look for what Allah has made clear about it first.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (shared passage from 24:16)

And why did you not, when you heard it, say: "It is not right for us to speak of this. Glory be to You (O Allah)! This is a great lie. (16)Allah forbids you from it and warns you not to repeat the like of it forever, if you are believers (17)And Allah makes the Ayat plain to you, and Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise (18)

Further Discipline

This is further discipline, in addition to the command to think well of people, i.e., if something unbefitting is mentioned about good people, then one should think well of them, and not feel towards them anything but good. Then if a person has any unsuitable thoughts about them, insinuated into his mind and imagination by Shaytan, he should not speak about that, for the Prophet ﷺ said:

إِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى تَجَاوَزَ لِأُمَّتِي عَمَّا حَدَّثَتْ بِهِ أَنْفُسُهَا مَا لَمْ تَقُلْ أَوْ تَعْمَلْ

(Allah will excuse my Ummah for anything that occurs to their minds, so long as they do not speak about it or act upon it.) This was reported in the Two Sahihs. Allah's saying:

وَلَوْلَا إِذْ سَمِعْتُمُوهُ قُلْتُم مَّا يَكُونُ لَنَا أَن نَّتَكَلَّمَ بِهَٰذَا

(And why did you not, when you heard it, say: "It is not right for us to speak of this".) meaning, we should not talk about it or mention it to anyone.

سُبْحَانَكَ هَٰذَا بُهْتَانٌ عَظِيمٌ

(Glory be to You (O Allah)! This is a great lie.) means, glory be to Allah that such a thing should be said about the wife of His Prophet and close Friend ﷺ. Then Allah says,

يَعِظُكُمُ اللَّهُ أَن تَعُودُوا لِمِثْلِهِ أَبَدًا

(Allah forbids you from it and warns you not to repeat the like of it forever,) meaning, Allah is forbidding you and warning you from doing anything like this again in the future. Allah says,

إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

(if you are believers.) meaning, if you believe in Allah and His Laws, and you respect His Messenger ﷺ. As for those who are described as disbelievers, a different ruling applies in their case. Then Allah says,

وَيُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمُ الْآيَاتِ

(And Allah makes the Ayat plain to you,) meaning, He makes clear to you the rulings of Shari'ah and His divine decrees.

وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

(and Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.) means, He knows what is right for His servants and He is Wise in His Laws and decrees.