Surah 33. Al-Ahzab, Ayah 49
| يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا نَكَحْتُمُ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ ثُمَّ طَلَّقْتُمُوهُنَّ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ تَمَسُّوهُنَّ فَمَا لَكُمْ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِنْ عِدَّةٍ تَعْتَدُّونَهَا ۖ فَمَتِّعُوهُنَّ وَسَرِّحُوهُنَّ سَرَاحًا جَمِيلًا |
| Transliteration | : | yaa 'ayyuhaa 'alladhena 'aamano 'idhaa nakah.tum al- mu'minaat thumma t.allaqtumo -hunna min qabli 'an tamasso -hunna fa- maa la- -kum calay -hinna min ciddah tactaddon -haa fa- mattico -hunna wa- sarrih.o -hunna saraah.(an) jamel(an) |
| Pickthall | : | O ye who believe! If ye wed believing women and divorce them before ye have touched them, then there is no period that ye should reckon. But content them and release them handsomely. |
| Asad | : | O YOU who have attained to faith! If you marry believing women and then divorce them ere you have touched them, you have no reason to expect, and to calculate, any waiting-period on their part:55 hence, make [at once] provision for them, and release them in a becoming manner.56 |
| Malik | : | O believers! If you marry believing women and divorce them before the marriage is consummated, you are not required to observe the Iddat (waiting period) which you should count for them, so give them some present and relieve them gracefully. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | O ye who believe! when ye marry believing women and then divorce them before ye have touched them no period of `Iddah have ye to count in respect of them: so give them a present and set them free in a handsome manner. 3738 3739 3740 |
Note - 55Lit., "you have no waiting-period whatever upon them
which you should count" - i.e., "which either of you
should take into account as an obligation": cf. the first
part of 2:228, and the corresponding note [215]. Since
the question of pregnancy does not arise if the marriage
has not been consummated, a waiting-period on the part of
the divorced wife would be meaningless and of no benefit
either to her or to her former husband.
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Note - 56This injunction, relating to certain marital problems
which affect the believers in general, forms an
introduction, as it were, to a resumption, in the next
verse, of the discourse on the marital laws applying
exclusively to the Prophet: thus, it connects with the
passage beginning with the words, "O wives of the
Prophet! You are not like any of the [other] women"
(verse {32}), as weld as with the subsequent reference to
his marriage with Zaynab (verses {37} f.).
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Note - 3738See n. 254 to ii. 228. The Iddat counts for three monthly
courses, or if there are no courses, for three months:
see lxv. 4.
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Note - 3739This present is held, by some, to be in addition to the
half dower due to them under ii. 237. If the dower had
not yet been fixed, the gift would presumably be larger,
and it would absorb the gift prescribed in ii. 236.
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Note - 3740The gifts should be given with good grace, and the
freedom of the woman should not be interfered with in any
way. If she chooses to marry again immediately, no
obstacle should be placed in her path. On no pretext
should she be allowed to remain doubtful about her
freedom.
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Lit., "you have no waiting-period whatever upon them which you should count" - i.e., "which either of you should take into account as an obligation": cf. the first part of 2:228, and the corresponding note [215]. Since the question of pregnancy does not arise if the marriage has not been consummated, a waiting-period on the part of the divorced wife would be meaningless and of no benefit either to her or to her former husband. |
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This injunction, relating to certain marital problems which affect the believers in general, forms an introduction, as it were, to a resumption, in the next verse, of the discourse on the marital laws applying exclusively to the Prophet: thus, it connects with the passage beginning with the words, "O wives of the Prophet! You are not like any of the [other] women" (verse {32}), as weld as with the subsequent reference to his marriage with Zaynab (verses {37} f.). |
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See n. 254 to ii. 228. The Iddat counts for three monthly courses, or if there are no courses, for three months: see lxv. 4. |
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This present is held, by some, to be in addition to the half dower due to them under ii. 237. If the dower had not yet been fixed, the gift would presumably be larger, and it would absorb the gift prescribed in ii. 236. |
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The gifts should be given with good grace, and the freedom of the woman should not be interfered with in any way. If she chooses to marry again immediately, no obstacle should be placed in her path. On no pretext should she be allowed to remain doubtful about her freedom. |
