Quran Chapter 4- 20 & 21
(Pt-4, Stg-1) (L-525) - درس قرآن
A strong pledge from the husband
Surah ‘An-Nisaaa’ (Women) – Chapter – 4)
‘A-‘uu-zu Billaahi minash-Shay-taanir- Rajiim.
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
(I seek refuge in God from Satan the outcast)
Bis-Millaahir-Rah-maanir-Rahiim.
(In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful)
وَإِنْ أَرَدتُّمُ ٱسْتِبْدَالَ زَوْجٍمَّكَانَ زَوْجٍ وَءَاتَيْتُمْ إِحْدَىٰهُنَّ قِنطَارًا فَلَا تَأْخُذُوا۟ مِنْهُ شَيْـًٔا أَتَأْخُذُونَهُۥ بُهْتَٰنًا وَإِثْمًا مُّبِينًا 20
وَكَيْفَ تَأْخُذُونَهُۥ وَقَدْ أَفْضَىٰ بَعْضُكُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍوَأَخَذْنَ مِنكُم مِّيثَٰقًا غَلِيظًا 21
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20. And
if ye wish to exchange one wife for another and ye have given unto one of
them a sum of money (however great), take nothing from it. Would ye take it
by the way of calumny and open wrong?
21. How can ye take it (back) after one of you hath gone
in unto the other, and they have taken a strong pledge from you?
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20. Wa ‘in ‘arattumus-tib-daala
zawjim-makaana zawjinw-wa ‘aataytum ‘ihdaahun-na
qintaaran falaa ta’-khuzuu minhu shay-‘aa.
‘A-ta’-khuzuu-nahuu buhtaananw-wa ‘is-mam-mubiinaa.
21. Wa kayfa ta’khuzuuna-huu wa
qad ‘afzaa ba’-zukum ‘ilaa ba’-zinw-wa
‘akhazna minkum-miisaaqan galiizaa.
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Commentary
During
the times of ignorance before Islam, there was a tradition also that whenever
any person used to wish to marry some other woman leaving the earlier wife, in
that case he used to accuse her wife falsely and tyrannize her of various
sorts. So that she might return the money of mahr under
compulsion and get divorce, in like manner, this money may be used in the
second marriage. It has been restricted in these verses that while you have
given much wealth to your first wife and now you wish to marry any other woman
leaving the first, then you should not take back that wealth or money. It is
unlawful to take back the given money from the first wife by the way of calumny
and open wrong.
At
the very time, the man and the woman have gone in unto one another, kept
company with each other and reached the certain point of copulation, then the mahr (the
money or its value incumbent on the husband) has become payable upon the man to
his wife. How can it be lawful for the husband to get back that money of mahr and
how can he press the woman if she does not want to return? There can be only
one mode to get back the mahr i.e.
if the woman exempts it with her pleasure. While these women have taken a
strong pledge from you and you have reaped the complete advantage from them,
then how can it be lawful either not to pay them or get back the money
(incumbent on you) of mahr, which you have already paid?
Remember
it that as after copulation the entire mahr becomes
incumbent on the husband to be paid, like this, if correct solitude has taken
place between the two (husband and wife), even then complete mahr will
be payable. However, if they have not reached the point of correct solitude and
the husband has divorced her wife, then the mahr will
be paid half. These matters have already been discussed in chapter -2 (Surah
‘Al-Baqarah).
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