THE PROPHET 
AND 
ZAINAB BENT GAHSH

 

The Prophet adopted a son. His name was “Zaid Ibn Alharithah” but he called him “Zaid Ibn Mohammed”. Zaid married a woman called Zainab. The prophet went to visit his adopted son one day and when he was there, the wind blew a curtain aside and he saw Zainab nearly naked. Then the Prophet went around saying, “Praise to Him who changes hearts”. When Zaid heard that, he asked the Prophet to allow him to divorce his wife Zainab, but The Prophet told Zaid, “Keep your wife and fear God”. However, Zaid would not keep his wife and divorced her and then the Prophet went and married her with the backing of a verse from Quran which God had given (Surah 33:36-39).

 

We read in the Bible in the tenth Commandment

 

Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s” and in

 

Levicitus 18:15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

 

Also, the Lord describes such acts in:

 

Jeremiah 5:8,9 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

 

Also Jeremiah 29 tells us that two priests used their trusted positions and betrayed their friends by committing adultery with their wives. God punished this sin by allowing the priests to be taken captive into Babylon where they were beheaded and roasted as a public example.

 

Jeremiah 29:22-23 The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; 23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD

 

Also, The Lord Jesus Christ says in:

 

Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

 

Also the Prophet Job, who was married to one wife and was extremely rich, said in:

 

Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?” and verses 7-11 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; 8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. 9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door; 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges”

 

How can these deeds of the Prophet which are so contrary to God’s Word and Commandments be explained?

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