Tuesday 10 October 2017

SURAH AN-NISA (WOMEN): 20-21

TRANSLATION:

[4:20]
If you want to take a wife in place of the one (you have), and you have given her plenty of wealth, then do not take any of it back. Would you take it through imputation and open sin? {17}

[4:21]
How can you take it when you have had access to each other and they have taken a firm covenant from you? 


INTERPRETATION:


{17} In verse 19 it was mentioned that forcing women to repay their Meher (money promised by husband to wife at the time of Nikah) in return for agreeing to a divorce is permissible only if they have engaged openly in shameful behavior. This verse says that if you force them to return Meher, it will be akin to making allegations of shameful behavior against them as it is not permissible to force them to return Meher except in that one condition.

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