{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_065_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_065_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_065_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/065.htm","summary":"This is a translation of Surah Al-Talaq (Chapter 65, \"The Divorce\") from the Quran, a Medinan revelation belonging to the Islamic scriptural tradition. The chapter lays out legal and ethical guidelines for divorce, addressing Muslim men directly: divorces must be timed to the end of a woman's menstrual cycle, waiting periods must be observed (three months for post-menopausal women, until childbirth for pregnant women), and women may not be expelled from their homes without cause. A recurring practical concern is financial provision \u2014 divorced and nursing women must be housed, paid, and treated with equity, with the amount scaled to the husband's means. Distinctive to the chapter is its tight interweaving of domestic law with theology: compliance with these rules is framed not primarily as civil obligation but as fear of God, with promises of divine ease, provision, and paradise for the obedient, and warnings of severe punishment \u2014 illustrated by the destruction of past cities \u2014 for those who defy God's commands. The chapter closes with a cosmological assertion of God's omnipotence and omniscience (creator of seven heavens and their earthly equivalents), grounding the mundane legal rulings in a vast theological frame.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"065","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":535}