سورة النساء، الآية ٢١
وَكَيْفَ تَأْخُذُونَهُۥ وَقَدْ أَفْضَىٰ بَعْضُكُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍ وَأَخَذْنَ مِنكُم مِّيثَٰقًا غَلِيظًا ٢١
wakayfa takhudhūnahu waqad afḍā baʿḍukum ilā baʿḍin wa-akhadhna minkum mīthāqan ghalīẓan
And how could you take it while you have gone in unto each other and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?
Verse 21 of Surah An-Nisa (4:21), a Medinan surah, is in juz 4, on page 81 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
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How could you take what you gave to them as a dowry after the relationship, love, enjoyment and sharing of secrets that has occurred between you? Greed for the wealth which is theirs after all this is forbidden and shameful. They took a sincere promise from you, by which they became lawful to you through the Word of Allah and His sacred law.
How could you take it back after having been intimate with one another, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?
And how could you take it (back) while you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a firm and strong covenant?
How can ye take it (back) after one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have taken a strong pledge from you?
And how could ye take it when ye have gone in unto each other, and they have Taken from you a solemn covenant?
And how can you take it when one of you has already gone in to the other and they have made with you a firm covenant?
And how should you take it, and each of you has already gone privily with the other, (Literally: some of you have been privily with (some) and they have taken from you a solemn compact?
