Surah At-Talaq (The Divorce) 65

Revealed 99th in the Qur'an

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65:1
O prophet, when you divorce women, divorce them for their waiting period and keep count of the waiting period, and fear God, your Lord. Do not turn them out of their houses, nor should they leave unless they are committing a clear immorality. And those are the limits [set by] God. And whoever transgresses the limits of God has certainly wronged himself. You do not know; perhaps God will bring about a [different] matter after that.

65:2
And when they have reached their term, either retain them according to acceptable terms or part with them according to acceptable terms. And bring two just witnesses from among you and establish the testimony for God. That is instructed to whoever should believe in God and the Last Day. And whoever fears God - He will make a way out for him

65:3
And will provide for him from where he does not expect. And whoever trusts in God - then He is sufficient for him. Indeed, God will accomplish His command. God has already made a [decreed] measure for everything.

65:4
And those who have despaired of [expecting] menstruation among your women [due to pregnancy or menopause] - if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not [yet] menstruated [in this period]. And for those who are pregnant, their term is until they give birth. And whoever fears God - He will make ease for his matter.

65:5
That is the command of God, which He has sent down to you; and whoever fears God - He will remove his evil deeds for him and make his reward great for him.

65:6
Lodge them [in a section] of where you dwell out of your means and do not harm them in order to oppress them. And if they should be pregnant, then spend on them until they give birth. And if they breastfeed for you, then give them their payment and confer among yourselves in an acceptable manner; but if you are in discord, then another [woman] may breastfeed for [the father].

65:7
Let [a man] of abundance spend from his abundance, and he whose provision is restricted - let him spend from what God has given him. God does not charge a soul except [according to] what He has given it. God will bring about ease after hardship.

65:8
And how many cities were insolent toward the command of their Lord and His messengers, so We took them to severe account and punished them with a terrible punishment.

65:9
So they tasted the consequence of their affair, and the outcome of their affair was loss.

65:10
God has prepared a severe punishment for them; so fear God, O you of understanding who have believed. Indeed, God has sent down a Reminder to you -

65:11
A messenger reciting the clear verses of God to you so that He may bring those who believe and do righteous deeds out from darknesses towards the light. And whoever believes in God and does righteousness - He will admit him into Gardens, in which rivers flow beneath them, to abide therein forever. Certainly, God will have made a good provision for him.

65:12
It is God who has created seven heavens - and of the earth, the like of them. [His] command descends among them so that you may know that God is Powerful over all things and that God has certainly encompassed all things in knowledge.