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Al-Nisa’ 4: 129–30

(by compromising on their rights),83 for reconciliation is better. Man is prone to selfish- ness, but if you do good and are God-fearing, then surely Allah is aware of the things you do. (129) You will not be able to treat your wives with (absolute) justice not even if you keenly desire to do so. (It suffices in order to follow the Law of Allah that) you do not wholly incline to one, leaving the other in suspense.84 If you act rightly and remain God- fearing, surely Allah is All- Forgiving, All-Compassionate. (130) But if the two separate, out of His plenty Allah will make each dispense with the other. Indeed Allah is Most Bounteous, Most Wise. ▶

83 It is better for the spouses to come to a mutual understanding so that the wife may remain with the same man with whom she has already spent a part of her life.

84 Some people point out that the Qur’an in one breath stipulates justice as the necessary condition for plurality of wives and in the next declares it to be impossible. On this basis they conclude that the Qur’an has itself revoked the permission to marry more than one wife. There is, therefore, absolutely no justification for having a plurality of wives. Such an inference would have been justified had the Qur’an merely said that “You will not be able to treat your wives with (absolute) justice.” But the Qur’anic statement is followed by the direction: “… do not wholly incline to one, leaving the other in suspense.” This leaves no grounds at all for the blind followers of Christian Europe to force an interpretation of their liking on the verse.

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