An-Nisa' 4:20 وان اردتم استبدال زوج مكان زوج واتيتم احداهن قنطارا فلا تاخذوا منه شييا اتاخذونه بهتانا واثما مبينا ٢٠
وَاِنْ
اَرَدْتُّمُ
اسْتِبْدَالَ
زَوْجٍ
مَّكَانَ
زَوْجٍ ۙ
وَّاٰتَیْتُمْ
اِحْدٰىهُنَّ
قِنْطَارًا
فَلَا
تَاْخُذُوْا
مِنْهُ
شَیْـًٔا ؕ
اَتَاْخُذُوْنَهٗ
بُهْتَانًا
وَّاِثْمًا
مُّبِیْنًا
۟
If you desire to replace a wife with another and you have given the former ˹even˺ a stack of gold ˹as a dowry˺, do not take any of it back. Would you ˹still˺ take it unjustly and very sinfully?
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
But if you want to replace one wife with another and you have given one of them a great amount [in gifts], do not take [back] from it anything. Would you take it in injustice and manifest sin?
— Saheeh International
Bacalah Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Meaning of `Inheriting Women Against Their Will
Al-Bukhari recorded that Ibn `Abbas said about the Ayah,
يَـأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لاَ يَحِلُّ لَكُمْ أَن تَرِثُواْ النِّسَآءَ كَرْهاً
(O you who believe! You are not permitted to inherit women against their will,) "Before, the practice was that wh
…Meaning of `Inheriting Women Against Their Will
Al-Bukhari recorded that Ibn `Abbas said about the Ayah,
يَـأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لاَ يَحِلُّ لَ
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