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THE QUR'ÂN.
LVII, 27-LVIII, 4.
believe amongst them their hire; though many amongst them were workers of abomination !
O ye who believe! fear God, and believe in His Apostle: He will give you two portions of His mercy, and will make for you a light for you to walk in, and will forgive you ; for God is forgiving, compassionate.
That the people of the Book may know that they cannot control aught of God's grace; and that grace is in God's hands, He gives it to whom He will ; for God is Lord of mighty grace!
THE CHAPTER OF THE WRANGLER.
(LVIII. Medinah.) God has heard the speech of her who wrangled with you about her husband, and complained to God; and God hears your gossip; verily, God both hears and sees.
Those among you who back out of their wives 2 they are not their mothers: their mothers are only those who gave them birth ; and, verily, they speak a wrong speech and a false.
Verily, God both pardons and forgives. But those who back out of their wives and then would recall their speech,—then the manumission of a captive. before they touch each other; that is what ye are admonished, and God of what ye do is well aware!
i Khâulah bint Tha'labah being divorced from her husband by the formula mentioned below, and which was always considered to be a final separation, appealed to Mohammed, who said he could not alter the custom. Afterwards, on the woman praying to God, this passage was revealed, abolishing the objectionable form of divorce.
2 I. e. divorce them by the formula "Thou art to me as my mother's back! See Part I, p. 43, note 4.
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