Here a beautiful target is settled for the sexual intercourse saying: ``Your wives are your tilth.'' - It is compared to man's tilth in which - he sows the seed in order to reap the harvest.
This comparison may seem too heavy and obscure to some people saying why should one half of the humanity be compared with fertile pieces of land or field! But by that the Glorious Qurän shows the necessity of a woman, and her state of being exigent in creation of man. It also implies that women are not created for being a means of satisfying the lusts of the flesh, not to provide for sexual enjoyments of man, and neither are to be used as a play-toy! Woman is rather an important means of keeping on the race and the kind of human. The verse then ends in enjoining piety and GOD FEARING: ``And beware of Allah, and know that you shall meet HIM, and give good news to the faithfuls.''