The Majestic Quran

In the Name of God, the Kind, the Caring. T 1 God heard the woman who pleaded with you about her husband and complained to God, and God heard your conversation. God is the Hearer, the Seeing. 2 Those of you who divorce their wives by Ziha r 1 should know that they are not their mothers. Their mothers are those who gave birth to them; they are saying something horrible and false. Indeed, God is Pardoner and Forgiver. 3 Those who divorce their wives by Zihar, and then decide to take back what they have said, must free a slave before they sleep together. This is what you have been ordered to do. God is fully aware of what you do. 4 Anyone who can’t do this must fast for two consecutive months, before sleeping together. If he is unable to do that, then he should feed sixty needy people. This will be a proof of your fait h 2 in God and His Messenger. These are the boundaries of God. And for the disbelievers is painful punishment. T 5 Those people who opposed God and his Messenger have been disgraced, like those disgraced before them. We sent clear signs, and for the disbelievers is humiliating punishment. 6 The Day God raises them up they will be told what they did. God has taken account of all they did, but they forgot it. And God is Witness of all things. R 7 Don’t you realise God knows what is in the Heavens and the Earth? There is no private conversation between three people but He is their fourth, if five He is their sixth; whether they are few or more, He is with them wherever they are. Then, on Judgement Day, He will tell them what they did. Indeed, God knows all things. 8 Haven’t you seen those who were forbidden to hold private conversations, yet they return again and again to do what they were forbidden? When they talk privately, they conspire to do that which is sinful, hostile and disobedient to the Prophet. When they come to you, they greet you with what God doesn’t greet you with, and they tell themselves: “Why doesn’t God punish us for what we said?” Hell will be sufficient for them; they will burn in it. What a wretched place of rest. 9 Believers, when you talk in private, do not plot to sin, create