At-Talaq

O Informant! When you repudiate women, repudiate them with regard to their prescribed waiting period, and enumerate that period.

يأيها ٱلنبي إذا طلقتم ٱلنسآء فطلقوهن لعدتهن وأحصوا ٱلعدة

And guard yourselves toward God, your Guardian.

وٱتقوا ٱلله ربكم

Do not make them leave their houses,

لا تخرجوهن من بيوتهن

nor should they leave, unless they commit a flagrant indecency.

ولا يخرجن إلآ أن يأتين بفحشة مبينة

And those are the limits of God.

وتلك حدود ٱلله

And whoever crosses the limits of God has wronged his own Self.

ومن يتعد حدود ٱلله فقد ظلم نفسه

Then, when they reach their term, retain them according to what is recognized or part from them according to what is recognized,

فإذا بلغن أجلهن فأمسكوهن بمعروف أو فارقوهن بمعروف

and take as witnesses two just ones among you,

وأشهدوا ذوى عدل منكم

and maintain the testimony for God.

وأقيموا ٱلشهدة لله

And whoever guards himself toward God, He grants him a way out, and provides for him from where he does not expect.

ومن يتق ٱلله يجعل له مخرجا ويرزقه من حيث لا يحتسب

And whoever entrusts himself to God, He is sufficient for him,

ومن يتوكل على ٱلله فهو حسبه

for God brings His command to its term.

إن ٱلله بلغ أمره

And as for those of your women who have lost hope of menstruation, if you are in doubt, their waiting period is three months, and likewise for those who have not had their menstruation.

وٱلي يئسن من ٱلمحيض من نسآئكم إن ٱرتبتم فعدتهن ثلثة أشهر وٱلي لم يحضن

And for pregnant women, their term is when they give birth to what they carry.

وأولت ٱلأحمال أجلهن أن يضعن حملهن

That is God's command, which He has sent down to you.

ذلك أمر ٱلله أنزله إليكم

Let them dwell where you yourselves dwell, according to your means,

أسكنوهن من حيث سكنتم من وجدكم

and do not harm them so as to put them in straits.

ولا تضآروهن لتضيقوا عليهن

And if they are pregnant, provide for them until they give birth to what they carry.

وإن كن أولت حمل فأنفقوا عليهن حتى يضعن حملهن

Then, if they take the child into care for you, give them their rewards, and consult together according to what is recognized.

فإن أرضعن لكم فاتوهن أجورهن وأتمروا بينكم بمعروف

Let the well-off spend according to his ampleness,

لينفق ذو سعة من سعته

and let whoever's provision is restricted spend from what God has given him.

ومن قدر عليه رزقه فلينفق ممآ ءاتىه ٱلله

God imposes upon no Self except what He has given it.

لا يكلف ٱلله نفسا إلا مآ ءاتىها

How many a city defied with insolence the command of its Guardian and His messengers! We called it to a severe account and punished it with a horrible punishment, and it tasted the baleful consequences of its conduct.

وكأين من قرية عتت عن أمر ربها ورسله فحاسبنها حسابا شديدا وعذبنها عذابا نكرا فذاقت وبال أمرها

God has prepared for them a severe punishment.

أعد ٱلله لهم عذابا شديدا

So guard yourselves toward God, O possessors of intelligence,

فٱتقوا ٱلله يأولي ٱلألبب

a messenger who recites to you God's clarifying signs, so as to bring those who have believed and done sound deeds out of the darknesses into the light.

رسولا يتلوا عليكم ءايت ٱلله مبينت ليخرج ٱلذين ءامنوا وعملوا ٱلصلحت من ٱلظلمت إلى ٱلنور

God is the One who created seven heavens, and of the earth their like.

ٱلله ٱلذي خلق سبع سموت ومن ٱلأرض مثلهن