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O Prophet! Why, in order to please your wives, do you deprive yourself of what God has made lawful for you? God is forgiving and merciful!
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God has made it lawful for you all to dissolve your oaths. God is your Protector — He is the Knowing, the Wise.
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After the Prophet told a secret to one of his wives, she reported it [to another one], and God made him aware of that. He told her a part of it and kept silent about the rest. When he disclosed it to her, she said: “Who told you that?” He said: “The Knowing, the Well-Informed.”
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If you both repent before God, then your hearts are inclined to it, but if you conspire against [your husband], then, verily, God is his Protector and Gabriel, and the upright among the believers, and the Angels will all lend him their support!
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If he divorces you, his Lord will replace you by better wives — widows and virgins who submitted themselves to God, who believe and are devout, who repent and worship God, who go on pilgrimage and keep the fasts.
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O you who have believed! Save yourselves and your families from the Fire, which will be fueled by men and rocks! It is controlled by tough and powerful Angels. who are committed to enforcing God’s orders and to acting as commanded. [They will say:]
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“O you who haven’t believed! Don’t make excuses on this Day! Verily, you shall be punished for what you have done!”
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O you who have believed! Repent to God sincerely and hope that God will absolve you from your sins and usher you into the Gardens under which the rivers flow. On that Day God will not allow to humiliate the Prophet and those who believe with him. Light shall shine forward from them and from their right hands. They will say: “O our Lord! Bring our Light to perfection and forgive us! Verily, You have power over all things!”
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O Prophet! Fight the disbelievers and the Hypocrites and be tough with them! Their dwelling shall be Hell — what an awful outcome!
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God gave to the disbelievers the examples of the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot. Both were married to two of Our upright servants and both betrayed them. Nothing could help them with God and they were told: — Enter the Fire with those who enter [it]!
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God gave to the believers the example of Pharaoh’s wife, who said: “O my Lord! Build me a house near You in Paradise and deliver me from Pharaoh and his deeds, deliver me from the people who do wrong!”
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And Mary, the daughter of ’Imran, who kept herself chaste... We breathed into her from Our Spirit, and she believed in the Words of her Lord and in His Scriptures. She was one of those who feared God.