that she will marry him, then divorce him, and the man who made the arrangement will marry her.

This is forbidden by agreement of the Muslims, whether a marriage intended to make her lawful again for her former husband is held to be valid or not. They have not disputed that it is impermissible to propose marriage explicitly to a woman observing a waiting period from another man, a woman married to another man, or a woman whom the proposer has divorced three times. Anyone who does so deserves punishment in this world and the Hereafter, by agreement of the imams.

He—may Allah Most High have mercy on him—was also asked:

A man speaks in a manner resembling women’s speech and is a “tinjīr.” Is it permissible for him to enter women’s quarters? What is the ruling concerning him?

He replied:

Rather, a man like this must be banished and expelled; he must not live among either men or women. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, banished an effeminate man, ordered that effeminate men be banished, and said:

“Expel them from your homes.”

Yet that man was not a tinjīr; how much more, then, does this apply to a tinjīr! Al-Shāfi‘ī, Ahmad and others explicitly stated this.

Shaykh al-Islām—may Allah have mercy on him—said:

Section: On the bonds between Allah and His servants, and among the servants themselves: those arising from creation and those acquired; those established by divine law and those established by stipulation.

Allah Most High says:

“O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul and created from it its mate, and spread from the two many men and women. Fear Allah, in whose name you ask one another, and be mindful of the ties of kinship. Surely Allah is ever Watchful over you.”

He opened the surah by mentioning the creation of humankind from a single soul, that its mate was created from it, and that He spread men and women from the two—the most complete and exalted of bonds. Then