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Al-Nisa’ 4: 1–3

Surah 4

Al-Nisa’

(Women)

(Madinan Period)

In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.

(1) O people! Fear your Lord Who created you from a single being and out of it created its mate; and out of the two spread many men and women. Fear Allah in Whose name you plead for rights, and heed the ties of kinship. Surely, Allah is ever watchful over you.

(2) Give orphans their pro- perty, and do not exchange the bad for the good, and do not eat up their property by mixing it with your own. This surely is a mighty sin.

(3) If you fear that you might not treat the orphans justly, then marry the women that seem good to you: two, or three, or four.1 ▶

1 It should be noted that making polygamy lawful was not the real purpose of this verse, for polygamy was already in vogue in Arabia and the Prophet (peace be on him) himself had more than one wife when this verse was revealed. The real object of its revelation was to help solve the problem of orphaned children

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