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THE QUR'ÂN.
LXIV,18-LXV, 4.
He knows the unseen and the visible; the mighty, the wise!
THE CHAPTER OF Divorce.
(LXV. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
O thou prophet! when ye divorce women, then divorce them at their term?, and calculate the term and fear God your Lord. Do not drive them out of their houses unless they have committed manifest adultery. These are God's bounds, and whoso transgresses God's bounds has wronged himself. Thou knowest not whether haply God may cause something fresh to happen after that 2..
And when they have reached their appointed time, then retain them with kindness, or separate from them with kindness; and bring as witnesses men of equity from among you; and give upright testimony to God. That is what He admonishes him who believes in God and the last day; and whosoever fears God, He will make for him a (happy) issue, and will provide for him from whence he reckoned not.
And whosoever relies on God, He is sufficient for him: verily, God will attain His purpose :-God has set for everything a period.
And such of your women as despair of menstrua
i When they have had three periods of menstruation; or, if they prove with child, after their delivery. See Part I, p. 34.
2 I. e. whether God may not reconcile them again.
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