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dowry, then either retain them with correctness and courtesy or
release them with correctness and courtesy.... (Koran, 2:231)
You who have faith! When you marry believing women and then
divorce them before you have touched them, there is no dowry for
you to calculate for them, so give them a gift and let them go with
kindness. (Koran, 33:49)

The kindness, respect, care, compassion and protection that a
man needs to show a woman during and after divorce are command-
ed by the Koran. Such a morality can only be lived by adherence to the
Koran. The greatest value is clearly placed on woman in Islam. In or-
der to see that, one should look at the verses of the Koran and the poli-
cies of our Prophet (pbuh), not at the deceptions of those who fabricate
superstitions.

Women must be given financial security after
divorce

Islam commands that women must be provided with material se-
curity after divorce. The Koran forbids a divorced woman being left
abandoned, unprotected and financially unsupported. If someone is a
pure believer who abides by the Koran, then he has an obligation to
adhere to these commands set out by God in the Koran. Such a person
will in any case do this willingly and punctiliously out of his love of

God.
Verses from the Koran setting out the obligation to give financial
security to divorced women read as follows:
Divorced women should receive maintenance given with correct-
ness and courtesy: a duty for all who have fear of God. (Koran,
2:241)

But give them a gift – he who is wealthy according to his means
and he who is less well-off according to his means – a gift to be

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