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Al-Baqarah 2: 226–8

(226) For those who vow abstinence from their wives there is a respite of four months.76 Then, if they go back on their vow they will find that Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate. (227) And if they resolve on divorce, surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.77

(228) Divorced women shall keep themselves in waiting for three menstrual courses and it is unlawful for them, if they believe in Allah and the Last Day, to hide whatever Allah might have created in their wombs.▶

76 In the legal terminology of Islam this is known as ila’. It is obvious that harmony and cordiality do not always prevail in matrimonial life. There are occasions when strains and tensions develop, leading to discord and estrangement.

But the Law of God does not approve of that discord which causes a husband and wife, who are legally tied to one another in matrimony, to remain for long alienated from one another for all practical purposes as if they had ceased to be spouses. For this kind of abnormal discord and estrangement God has fixed a limit of four months during which the spouses are required either to settle their differences, or to break the tie of wedlock so that each becomes free to contract marriage with someone with whom a harmonious matrimonial relationship appears more likely.

77 That is, if a man has abandoned his wife on unreasonable grounds, he should not feel secure from the wrath of God for God is not unaware of the excesses that he may have committed.

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