The host cited this verse alongside Quran 65:4 as another controversial Islamic text previously discussed, likely as part of moral critiques of Islamic sexual law.
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24 and wedded women, save what your right hands own. So God prescribes for you. Lawful for you, beyond all that, is that you may seek, using your wealth, in wedlock and not in licence. Such wives as you enjoy thereby, give them their wages apportionate; it is no fault in you in your agreeing together, after the due apportionate. God is All-knowing, All-wise.
Used to argue that the Quran permits intercourse with female captives even when they are already married, making it central to the host's moral critique of Islamic law on war captives.
Quoted to show that classical Sunni exegesis understood Quran 4:24 to permit sex with war-captive women who already had husbands, after ensuring they were not pregnant.
Appealed to through the Abu Sa'id al-Khudri report about captives from Awtas/Autas to support the claim that Muhammad allowed intercourse with married female captives.
Used to argue that the Quran permits sexual access to married female captives ('those whom your right hands possess'), which the speaker labeled adultery.