
The Ifk: The Lie That the Heaven Answered
The Slander of Aisha — The Event, the Verses, the Law, and the PardonBy Aira AuroraLength1h 25m
About this audiobook
The Ifk — 'the monstrous lie' — is the event the Quran answered with a legislation-package: the slander of Aisha by a rumor launched in Madinah after the Banu al-Mustaliq expedition, and the ten-plus verses (24:11-26) that cleared her name, cursed the accusers, and wrote laws the world still needs. This book reads the whole passage and the event the tradition preserves around it (labeled as tradition throughout): the lie's social anatomy — 'a group among you,' manufactured by committee, carried by believers; the trial's paradoxical verdict — 'do not think it bad for you; rather it is good for you'; the witness law — four eyewitnesses or eighty lashes, the accusers 'liars with Allah' (24:4, 24:13), with the spousal li'an procedure (24:6-10) and the repentance's door (24:5); the rumor's physiology — 'you received it with your tongues...
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length1 hr 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 17, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction: The Lie and the Answer
3Chapter 1: The Event — What Happened
4Chapter 2: "A Group Among You" — The Lie's Social Anatomy
5Chapter 3: "It Is Good for You" — The Trial's Verdict
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6Chapter 4: The Witness Law — Four or Silence
7Chapter 5: "You Received It With Your Tongues" — The Rumor's Physiology
8Chapter 6: The Believer's Reflex — The Good Opinion and the Glory-Response
9Chapter 7: The Month of Waiting — The Prophet's Anguish
10Chapter 8: The Verdict From the Throne
11Chapter 9: "Those Who Love That Immorality Spreads"
12Chapter 10: The Pardon Clause — Abu Bakr, Mistah, and the Forgiveness's Economics
13Chapter 11: The Afterlaw — Verification, Suspicion, and the Backbiting Ban
14Chapter 12: The Modern Ifk — The Feeds' Charter
15Chapter 13: The Withheld Punishment — The Two Mercy-Clauses
16Chapter 14: The Never-Again Admonition — The Standing Homework
17Chapter 15: The Adjoining Privacy-Charter — The Passage's Own Neighborhood
18Disclaimer
19Frequently Asked Questions
20Glossary
21About the Author
22Series Info
