This theme brings together the verses on relatives and ties of kinship: blood relatives have greater claims on one another, yet a Day will come when kinship is of no avail. The verses urge maintaining these ties, praise those who keep them and regard severing them as corruption on earth; they also mention the wombs, whose contents Allah alone knows.
Verses gathered from a topical index of the Quran, in Mushaf order; every verse is quoted in full.
Divorced women remain in waiting [i.e., do not remarry] for three periods, and it is not lawful for them to conceal what Allāh has created in their wombs if they believe in Allāh and the Last Day. And their husbands have more right to take them back in this [period] if they want reconciliation. And due to them [i.e., the wives] is similar to what is expected of them, according to what is reasonable. But the men [i.e., husbands] have a degree over them [in responsibility and authority]. And Allāh is Exalted in Might and Wise.
