A great difficutly of women is their marriage with another man, when their husbands are dead. To observe the sanctity and respects of marriage is a matther of importance, even after the death of man, and therefore different clans, and tribes have their own rules and customs for that. Some of them have gone to such extremes, that practically keep their women in a heinous deadlock. Sometimes, these extravagances have led to the most annoying crimes in treating the women! Some clans had the custom of burning the widow alive when her husband died! Some other clan burried the poor widow alive in the same grave with her husband! Some tribes who were more temperate and gentle, deprived the widow of her rights of marriage after she was widowed. The custom of some tribes was to errect a tent upon the grave of the man, and his wife had to live in that tent lonely and in dirt, wearing shabby and worn-out clothes, without the least of adornment. She had to live in that tent for a long time mourning, in order to be counted a faithful wife!

      The said verse (No. 234) came down to draw a red line of obliteration upon all these superstitions, and permitted the widow, at the end of a widowhood term, to marry again with another man. The waiting period of widowhood is four months and ten days: ``And as for those of you who die and live a widow behind, they shall wait by themselves, four months and ten days, and when they fulfilled this term of their widowhood, there is no guilt in what they do with themselves, in a lawful and reasonable manner.''

      In order to prevent her kinsfolk and family from improper interferences, Allah has given a warning here that: - ``Allah is aware of whatever you do.''