Forbidden to you are your mothers and daughters your sisters your paternal aunts and maternal aunts your brother's daughters your sister's daughters your foster mothers who have given you milk your foster sisters your mothers-in-law your step-daughters who are in your care being born of your wives you have been in to-but if you have not yet been in to them you are not at fault-and the spouses of your sons who are of your loins and that you should take to you two sisters together unless it be a thing of the past. God is ever Forgiving Merciful. The attempt to find the meanings behind the prohibitions is an impossible matter because the law does not need to be justified ghayr al-muʿallal. Rather the Real سبحانه prohibits what He will for whom He will and likewise gives permission. There is no underlying cause ʿilla for the laws at all: if the prohibited women were to be the permissible ones or the permissible women were to be the prohibited ones then that would be allowed.
