Page 244 - Learning from the Qur'an

LIVING BY THE BOUNDS
ALLAH HAS SET

Divorce can be pronounced two times; in which case wives may
be retained with correctness and courtesy or released with good
will. It is not lawful for you to keep anything you have given them
unless a couple fear that they will not remain within Allah's limits.
If you fear that they will not remain within Allah's limits, there is
nothing wrong in the wife ransoming herself with some of what
she received. These are Allah's limits, so do not overstep them.
Those who overstep Allah's limits are wrongdoers. (Qur'an, 2:229)
These are Allah's limits. As for those who obey Allah and His
Messenger, We will admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing
under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the
Great Victory. (Qur'an, 4:13)
As for those who disobey Allah and His Messenger and overstep
His limits, We will admit them into a Fire, remaining in it
timelessly, for ever. They will have a humiliating punishment.
(Qur'an, 4:14)
You who believe! Do not make forbidden the good things Allah has
made lawful for you, and do not overstep the limits. Allah does not
love people who overstep the limits. (Qur'an, 5:87)
Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those
who fast, those who bow, those who prostrate, those who
command the right, those who forbid the wrong, those who
preserve the limits of Allah: give good news to the believers.
(Qur'an, 9:112)
That is it. If someone honours Allah's sacred things that is better
for him in his Lord's sight. All livestock are permitted to you except
what has already been recited to you. Have done with the
defilement of idols and have done with telling lies. (Qur'an, 22:30)

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