{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq065.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq065.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq065.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. O Prophet! When ye\n Do divorce women,\n Divorce them at their\n Prescribed periods,\n And count (accurately)\n Their prescribed periods:\n And fear God your Lord:\n And turn them not out\n Of their houses, nor shall\n They (themselves) leave,\n Except in case they are\n Guilty of some open lewdness,\n Those are limits\n Set by God: and any\n Who transgresses the limits\n Of God, does verily\n Wrong his (own) soul:\n Thou knowest not if\nPerchance God will\n Bring about thereafter\n Some new situation.\n2. Thus when they fulfil\n Their term appointed,\n Either take them back\n On equitable terms\n Or part with them\n On equitable terms;\n And take for witness\n Two persons from among you,\n Endued with justice,\n And establish the evidence\n (As) before God. Such\n Is the admonition given\n To him who believes\n In God and the Last Day.\n And for those who fear\n God, He (ever) prepares\n A way out,\n3. And He provides for him\n From (sources) he never\n Could imagine. And if\n Any one puts his trust\n In God, sufficient is (God)\n For him. For God will\nSurely accomplish His purpose:\n Verily, for all things\n Has God appointed\n A due proportion.\n4. Such of your women\n As have passed the age\n Of monthly courses, for them\n The prescribed period, if ye\n Have any doubts, is\n Three months, and for those\n Who have no courses\n (It is the same):\n For those who carry\n (Life within their wombs),\n Their period is until\n They deliver their burdens:\n And for those who\n Fear God, He will\n Make their path easy.\n5. That is the Command\n Of God, which He\n Has sent down to you:\n And if any one fears God,\n He will remove his ills\n From him, and will enlarge\n His reward.\n6. Let the women live\n (In \u2018iddat) in the same\nStyle as ye live,\n According to your means:\n Annoy them not, so as\n To restrict them.\n And if they carry (life\n In their wombs), then\n Spend (your substance) on them\n Until they deliver\n Their burden: and if\n They suckle your (offspring),\n Give them their recompense:\n And take mutual counsel\n Together, according to\n What is just and reasonable.\n And if ye find yourselves\n In difficulties, let another\n Woman suckle (the child)\n On the (father's) behalf.\n7. Let the man of means\n Spend according to\n His means: and the man\n Whose resources are restricted,\n Let him spend according\n To what God has given him.\n God puts no burden\n On any person beyond\n What He has given him.\n After a difficulty, God\n Will soon grant relief.\n8. How many populations\n That insolently opposed\n The command of their Lord\n And of His apostles,\n Did We not then\n Call to account,\n To severe account?\n And We imposed on them\n An exemplary Punishment.\n9. Then did they taste\n The evil result of\n Their conduct, and the End\n Of their conduct\n Was Perdition.\n10. God has prepared for them\n A severe Punishment\n (In the Hereafter).\n Therefore fear God,\n O ye men of understanding\u2014\n Who have believed!\n For God hath indeed\n Sent down to you\n A Message,\u2014\n11. An Apostle, who rehearses\n To you the Signs of God\n Containing clear explanations,\n That he may lead forth\n Those who believe\n And do righteous deeds\nFrom the depths of Darkness\n Into Light. And those who\n Believe in God and work\n Righteousness, He will admit\n To Gardens beneath which rivers\n Flow, to dwell therein\n For ever: God has indeed\n Granted for them\n A most excellent provision.\n12. God is He Who\n Created seven Firmaments\n And of the earth\n A similar number.\n Through the midst\n Of them (all) descends\n His Command: that ye may\n Know that God has power\n Over all things, and that\n God comprehends all things\n In (His) Knowledge.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LXV. \u1e6cal\u0101q, or Divorce.","type":"page"}