CHAPTER 65.  DIVORCE                                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH PROPHET WHEN YOU DIVORCE WOMEN IT IS PRESCRIBED
THAT YOU DIVORCE THEM AT THEIR PERIODS THAT ARE PRESCRIBED 
AND COUNT THE PERIODS THAT ARE PRESCRIBED
AND TURN THEM NOT OUT FROM WHERE THEY RESIDE
UNLESS THEY ARE GUILTY OF LEWDNESS THAT THEY DID NOT HIDE
DO NOT LEAVE THEM AND THESE LIMITS ARE SET FOR YOU TO ABIDE 
WHOEVER DOES SO WRONGS HIMSELF AND BESIDES
GOD MAY BRING SOME NEW SITUATION FOR WHICH TO ABIDE

2  SO WHEN THEY FULFILL THEIR TERMS APPROPRIATELY 
EITHER TAKE THEM BACK ON TERMS EQUITABLY
OR PART WITH THEM ON TERMS EQUITABLY 
AND TAKE TWO PERSONS FOR WITNESSES JUSTLY 
AND ESTABLISH THE EVIDENCE BEFORE GOD PROPERLY
THIS IS THE ADMONITION GIVEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE   
FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD HE DELIVERS SECURELY 

3  HE PROVIDES FOR HIM FROM SOURCES HE COULD NOT PERCEIVE 
AND IF ANY ONE PUTS HIS TRUST IN GOD COMPLETELY
GOD PROVIDES FOR HIM SUFFICIENTLY
FOR GOD WILL ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSE SURELY 
FOR HE INDEED PROPORTIONS DULY

4  FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE PASSED THE AGE OF MONTHLY PERIODS
THREE MONTHS OF WAITING IS THE PRESCRIBED PERIOD
AND FOR THEY WHO HAVE NO PERIODS
UNTIL THEY DELIVER THEIR BURDEN IS THEIR PERIOD 

AND FOR THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY
HE WILL MAKE THEIR PATH EASY

5  THAT IS THE COMMAND OF GOD SENT TO YOU FROM HIM
ANY WHO FEARS GOD HE WILL REMOVE EVIL FROM HIM 
AND WILL ENLARGE HIS REWARD FOR HIM

6  FOR WOMEN THE STYLE AS YOU LIVE PROVIDE THE SAME FOR THEM
ACCORDING TO YOUR MEANS AND DO NOT ANNOY  THEM  
AND IF THEY CARRY LIFE WITHIN THEM
UNTIL THEY DELIVER SPEND YOUR SUBSTANCE ON THEM  
IF THEY NURSE YOUR OFFSPRING COMPENSATE THEM 
AND TAKE MUTUAL COUNSEL WITH THEM
ACCORDING TO WHAT IS JUST FOR YOU AND THEM 
AND IF YOU FIND YOURSELVES IN DIFFICULTIES WITH THEM
LET ANOTHER WOMAN NURSE THE CHILD ON BEHALF OF HIM

7  LET THE MAN OF MEANS SPEND ACCORDINGLY
LET THE MAN OF LESSER MEANS SPEND ACCORDINGLY  
GOD PUTS NO BURDEN ON ANY BUT WHAT HE CAN CARRY
AND AFTER A DIFFICULTY GOD GRANTS RELIEF SURELY

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CHAPTER 65.  DIVORCE                                                               SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

8  HOW MANY POPULATIONS THAT OPPOSED GOD AND HIS MESSENGERS  
DID WE CALL TO ACCOUNT AND PUNISH THEM AFTER?  

9  THEN DID THEY TASTE THE EVIL RESULT OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND PERDITION WAS THE END OF THEIR CONDUCT INDEED

10  GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THEM A SEVERE PENALTY
THEREFORE FEAR GOD, OH YOU WHO BELIEVE
FOR GOD HAS SENT DOWN TO YOU A MESSAGE CLEARLY

11  AN APOSTLE WHO CAME TO YOU WITH RECITATIONS
OF GOD'S MESSAGES CONTAINING CLEAR EXPLANATIONS 
THAT THOSE WHO BELIEVE FOR THE DEEDS THEY HAVE DONE 
HE MAY LEAD OUT OF DARKNESS INTO THE LIGHT OF THE SUN
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND ARE RIGHTEOUS ONES
WILL DWELL FOREVER IN GARDENS THROUGH WHICH RIVERS RUN 
THE FELICITY GOD HAS GRANTED THEM IS A MOST EXCELLENT ONE

12  GOD IS HE WHO CREATED THE SEVEN HEAVENS
AND OF THE EARTH A SIMILAR COMPOSITION
THROUGH THE MIDST OF THEM HIS COMMAND DESCENDS 
SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT ALL THINGS HE COMPREHENDS 

 

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