At-Talaq الطلاق
Madani · 12 ayat · 12 with pondering
- Ayah 1A marriage's ending is handed a counted waiting period, a home kept rather than seized in anger, and limits named as Allah's own to draw.
- Ayah 2The best-loved promise of a way out was first spoken to a couple ending a marriage, and keeping His limits keeps the exit open.
- Ayah 3Allah carries out His purpose whether you lean on Him or not; leaning on Him turns the same outcome into sufficiency, forgiveness and reward.
- Ayah 4An ayah of exact measures names women left out of the count, ends a pregnant woman's waiting when her load is down, and promises ease.
- Ayah 5The rules of an ending marriage are called the command of Allah, sent down to you, and keeping them covers sins and enlarges reward.
- Ayah 6Taqwa in a separation gets an address: share your home by your means, never squeeze, pay the nursing mother, keep talking for the child.
- Ayah 7Rich or poor, each gives from what Allah gave him; He asks no soul for more than He supplied, and promises ease after hardship.
- Ayah 8Many a town defied its Lord's command and His messengers, and was met with the kind of reckoning that excuses nothing.
- Ayah 9What had only ever been a first taste of consequence arrived in full: the town's own conduct turned out, in the end, to be total loss.
- Ayah 10The same care that once measured out a waiting period has prepared a severe punishment, and sent a reminder first so that nobody meets it unwarned.
- Ayah 11A messenger recites clear verses so that the darkness a wronged soul falls into becomes light, and gardens are given as pure, unowed generosity.
- Ayah 12Seven heavens, and seven earths like them, with the command descending through all of it, so that a small heart might know exactly who it is dealing with.