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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

When you divorce women and they are near

the end of their term, then either retain them

with correctness and courtesy or release them
with correctness and courtesy. … (Qur'an,

2:231)

You who believe! When you marry believing

women and then divorce them before you have

touched them, there is no term for you to calcu-
late for them, so give them a gift and let them

go with kindness. (Qur'an, 33:49)

Both verses refer to "courtesy" and "kindness." This means that
the man still has a responsibility to treat a woman with kindness
after divorce; a woman may not be working, may have no financial
means and may have nowhere to live. These verses place a divorced
woman under protection, and offer the options of retaining them

with correctness and courtesy or else releasing them, again with cor-
rectness and courtesy.

The man has to treat the woman properly under both conditions.

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