Page 454 - Learning from the Qur'an

TO HELP SINGLE BELIEVERS TO MARRY
Marry of those among you who are unmarried and those of your
slaves and slavegirls who are righteous. If they are poor, Allah
will enrich them from His bounty. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-
Knowing (Qur'an, 24:32)
TO MAKE ONE OF THE BELIEVERS
AN ARBITRATOR BETWEEN HUSBAND
AND WIFE WHO HAVE ARGUED
If you fear a breach between a couple, send an arbiter from his
people and an arbiter from her people. If the couple desire to put
things right, Allah will bring about a reconciliation between them.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Qur'an, 4:35)

NOT TO TAKE ANY OF THE PROPERTY
GIVEN TO THE WOMAN
IN MARRIAGE AFTER DIVORCE
If you desire to exchange one wife for another and have given
your original wife a large amount, do not take any of it. Would
you take it by means of slander and outright crime? How could
you take it when you have been intimate with one another and
they have made a binding contract with you? (Qur'an, 4:20-21)

THE PERIOD (NUMBER OF MONTHS)
THAT DIVORCED WOMEN HAVE TO WAIT
Divorced women should wait by themselves for three menstrual
cycles; and it is not lawful for them to conceal what Allah has
created in their wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day.
Their husbands have the right to take them back within that time,
if they desire to be reconciled. Women possess rights similar to
those held over them to be honoured with fairness; but men have
a degree above them. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (Qur'an, 2:228)

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