Verse. 238

٢ - ٱلْبَقَرَة

2 - Al-Baqara

وَاِذَا طَلَّقْتُمُ النِّسَاۗءَ فَبَلَغْنَ اَجَلَھُنَّ فَاَمْسِكُوْھُنَّ بِمَعْرُوْفٍ اَوْ سَرِّحُوْھُنَّ بِمَعْرُوْفٍ۝۰۠ وَلَا تُمْسِكُوْھُنَّ ضِرَارًا لِّتَعْتَدُوْا۝۰ۚ وَمَنْ يَّفْعَلْ ذٰلِكَ فَقَدْ ظَلَمَ نَفْسَہٗ۝۰ۭ وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوْۗا اٰيٰتِ اللہِ ھُزُوًا۝۰ۡ وَّاذْكُرُوْا نِعْمَتَ اللہِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَمَاۗ اَنْزَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِّنَ الْكِتٰبِ وَالْحِكْمَۃِ يَعِظُكُمْ بِہٖ۝۰ۭ وَاتَّقُوا اللہَ وَاعْلَمُوْۗا اَنَّ اللہَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيْمٌ۝۲۳۱ۧ
Waitha tallaqtumu alnnisaa fabalaghna ajalahunna faamsikoohunna bimaAAroofin aw sarrihoohunna bimaAAroofin wala tumsikoohunna diraran litaAAtadoo waman yafAAal thalika faqad thalama nafsahu wala tattakhithoo ayati Allahi huzuwan waothkuroo niAAmata Allahi AAalaykum wama anzala AAalaykum mina alkitabi waalhikmati yaAAithukum bihi waittaqoo Allaha waiAAlamoo anna Allaha bikulli shayin AAaleemun

English

Ahmed Ali

When you have divorced your wives, and they have reached the end of the period of waiting, then keep them honourably (by revoking the divorce), or let them go with honour, and do not detain them with the intent of harassing lest you should transgress. He who does so will wrong himself. Do not mock the decrees of God, and remember the favours God has bestowed on you, and revealed to you the Book and the Law to warn you of the consequences of doing wrong. Have fear of God, and remember, God is cognisant of everything.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (when ye have divorced women) one pronouncement of divorce, (and they have reached their term) their waiting period before they have a major ritual ablution after the third menstruation, (then retain them) take them back as your wives (in kindness) with kind companionship and intercourse (or release them) let them have their major ritual ablution and end the waiting period (in kindness) that will restore their rights. (retain them not to their hurt) in a way that causes their hurt (so that ye transgress (the limits)) that you transgress against them by prolonging their waiting period for them. (he who doeth that) he who so hurts his wife (hath wronged his own soul) has caused harm to himself. (make not the revelations of allah) his commands and prohibitions (a laughing stock (by your behaviour)) by not acting upon them, (but remember allah's grace upon you) preserve allah's blessing on you who gave you islam (and that which he hath revealed unto you of the scripture) in the scripture of commands and prohibitions (and of wisdom) the lawful and the unlawful, (whereby he doth exhort you) prohibits you from hurting them. (observe your duty to allah) fear allah if you hurt them (and know that allah is aware of all things) harming others as well as other things.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : when you divorce women, and they have, very nearly, reached, the end of, their term, then retain them, by returning to them, honourably, not harming them, or set them free honourably, or leave them until their term is completed; do not retain them, when reverting, in harm (dirāran is an object denoting reason), to transgress, that is, so as to force them to redemption, or to repudiate them or confine them indoors for a long time; whoever does that has wronged his soul, by exposing it to god’s chastisement; take not god’s verses in mockery, in jest by contravening them, and remember god’s grace upon you, that is, islam, and the book, the qur’ān, and the wisdom, the rulings contained therein, he has revealed to you, to exhort you therewith, so that you should give thanks by acting in accordance with it; and fear god, and know that god has knowledge of all things, and nothing can be hidden from him.