وَكَيْفَ تَأْخُذُونَهُۥ وَقَدْ أَفْضَىٰ بَعْضُكُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍۢ وَأَخَذْنَ مِنكُم مِّيثَٰقًا غَلِيظًۭا
Wa kaifa taakhuzoonahoo wa qad afdaa ba'dukum ilaa ba'dinw wa akhazna minkum meesaaqan ghaleezaa
And how could you take it while you have gone in unto each other and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?
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4:21Ayah 1176
27 ayahs in An-Nisaa are strongly about justice and honesty. This is one of them.
← Previous on Justice & honesty4:20But 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.Next on Justice & honesty →4:24And [also prohibited to you are all] married women except those your right hands possess. [This is] the decree of Allah upon you.
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How shall you take it that is by what right when each of you has been privily with the other through sexual intercourse which validates the dowry and they have taken from you a solemn covenant a binding pledge and that is what God commanded namely that they should be retained honourably or set free virtuously.
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