The Women
4. An-Nisā’
النساء
Page #81
4:20
وَإِنْ
أَرَدتُّمُ
اسْتِبْدَالَ
زَوْجٍ
مَّكَانَ
زَوْجٍ
وَآتَيْتُمْ
إِحْدَاهُنَّ
قِنطَارًا
فَلَا
تَأْخُذُوا
مِنْهُ
شَيْئًا
أَتَأْخُذُونَهُ
بُهْتَانًا
وَإِثْمًا
مُّبِينًا
wa-ʾin ʾaradtumu stibdāla zawjin makāna zawjin wa-ʾātaytum ʾiḥdāhunna qinṭāran fa-lā taʾkhudhū minhu shayʾan ʾa-taʾkhudhūnahū buhtānan wa-ʾithman mubīnan
If you desire to take a wife in place of another, and you have given one of them a quintal [of gold], do not take anything away from it. Would you take it by way of calumny and flagrant sin?!
— Ali Quli Qarai
But if ye decide to take one wife in place of another, even if ye had given the latter a whole treasure for dower, Take not the least bit of it back: Would ye take it by slander and manifest wrong?
