Al-Ahzaab • EN-TAFSIR-IBN-ABBAS
﴿ وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍۢ وَلَا مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَضَى ٱللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُۥٓ أَمْرًا أَن يَكُونَ لَهُمُ ٱلْخِيَرَةُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ ۗ وَمَن يَعْصِ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلَٰلًۭا مُّبِينًۭا ﴾
“Now whenever God and His Apostle have decided a matter, it is not for a believing man or a believing woman to claim freedom of choice insofar as they themselves are concerned: for he who [thus] rebels against God and His Apostle has already, most obviously, gone astray.”
(And it becometh not a believing man) Zayd (or a believing woman) Zaynab, (when Allah and His messenger have decided and affair (for them)) to marry them, (that they should (after that) claim any say in their affair) they should not have any choice other than what Allah and His Messenger chose for them; (and whoso is rebellious to Allah and His messenger) and whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger in what he is commanded with, (he verily goeth astray in error manifest) he is in manifest error regarding Allah's command.