# Sura  65 - Divorce

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> SURA LXV (65) - Divorce       (Mecca - 12 Verses)                (CI - 429)   
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        O Prophet!  when ye divorce women, divorce them at their special times.
> And reckon those times exactly, and fear God your Lord.  Put them not forth
> from their houses, nor allow them to depart, unless they have committed a
> proven adultery.  This is the precept of God; and whoso transgresseth the
> precept of God, assuredly imperilleth his own self.  Thou knowest not whether,
> after this, God may not cause something new to occur which may bring you
> together again.
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>        And when they have reached their set time, then either keep them with
> kindness, or in kindness part from them.  And take upright witnesses from among
> you, and bear witness as unto God.  This is a caution for him who believeth in
> God and in the latter day.  And whoso feareth God, to him will He grant a
> prosperous issue, and will provide for him whence he reckoned not upon it.
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>        And for him who putteth his trust in Him will God be all-sufficient.
> God truly will attain his purpose.  For everything hath God assigned a period.
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>        As to such of your wives as have no hope of the recurrence of their
> times, if ye have doubts in regard to them, then reckon three months, and let
> the same be the term of those who have not yet had them.  And as to those who
> are with child, their period shall be until they are delivered of their burden.
> God will make His command easy to him who feareth Him.
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>        This is God's command which He hath sent down to you: Whoso feareth God,
> his evil deeds will He cancel and will increase his reward.
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>        Lodge the divorced wherever ye lodge, according to your means; and
> distress them not by putting them to straits.  And if they are pregnant, then
> be at charges for them till they are delivered of their burden; and if they
> suckler your children, then pay them their hire and consult among yourselves,
> and act generously:  And if herein ye meet with obstacles, then let another
> female suckle for him.
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>        Let him who hath abundance give of his abundance; let him, too, whose
> store is scanty, give of what God hath vouchsafed to him.  Good imposeth
> burdens only according to the means when He hath given.  God will cause east to
> succeed difficulties.
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>        How many cities have turned aside from the command of their Lord and of
> his apostles!  Therefore did we reckon with them in a severe reckoning, and
> chastised them with a stern chastisement.
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>        And they tasted the harmfulness of their own conduct: and the end of
> their conduct was ruin.
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> 65:10  A vehement chastisement hath God prepared for them!  Fear God, then, O
> ye mean of understanding!
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>        Believers!  Now hath God sent down to you a warning! a prophet, who
> reciteth to you the clear signs of God, that he may bring those who believer,
> and do the things that are right, out of the darkness into the light.  And
> whoso believeth in God, and doeth the things that are right, God will cause
> them to enter the gardens beneath which the rivers flow, to remain therein for
> aye!  A goodly provision now hath God made for him.
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>        It is God who hath created seven heavens and as many earths.  The Divine
> command cometh down through them all, that ye may know that God hath power over
> all things, and that God in his knowledge embraceth all things!
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> — *Sura  65 - Divorce*