How could you do that having slept with one another, and when they had taken a solemn pledge from you?
And how will you take it back whereas you have become unveiled before each other, and they have taken a strong pledge from you?
How shall you take it, when each of you has been privily with the other, and they have taken from you a solemn compact?
And how could you take it away after you have given yourselves to one another, and she has received a most solemn pledge from you?
And how can ye take it back when one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have obtained from you a rigid bond!
And how could you take it (back) while you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a firm and strong covenant?
And how can you take it back, when you have been intimate with one another, and they have received from you a solid commitment?
How can you take it away after each one has enjoyed the other, and they have taken a firm covenant from you?
And how could you take it (back) while you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a firm and strong covenant
How can ye take it (back) after one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have taken a strong pledge from you?
How could you take it back, when you have known each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?
How can you take it back when you have reached one another (sexually) and they have taken from you a strong covenant!
And how could you take it while you have gone in unto each other and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?
How can you take it back when you have had intimate relations and made a solemn agreement with each other?
And how can you take it when one of you has already gone in to the other and they have made with you a firm covenant?
Wakayfa takhu<u>th</u>oonahu waqad af<u>da</u> baAA<u>d</u>ukum il<u>a</u> baAA<u>d</u>in waakha<u>th</u>na minkum meeth<u>a</u>qan ghalee<i><u>th</u></i><u>a</u><b>n</b>
How can you take it when you have been intimate with one another, and she has taken a solemn pledge from you?
And how could ye take it when ye have gone in unto each other, and they have Taken from you a solemn covenant?
وَكَيْفَ تَأْخُذُونَهُۥ وَقَدْ أَفْضَىٰ بَعْضُكُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍ وَأَخَذْنَ مِنكُم مِّيثَٰقًا غَلِيظًا
How could you take what you gave to them as a dowry after the relationship, love, enjoyment and sharing of secrets that has occurred between you? Greed for the wealth which is theirs after all this is forbidden and shameful. They took a sincere promise from you, by which they became lawful to you through the Word of Allah and His sacred law.
How could you take what you gave to them as a dowry after the relationship, love, enjoyment and sharing of secrets that has occurred between you? Greed for the wealth which is theirs after all this is forbidden and shameful. They took a sincere promise from you, by which they became lawful to you through the Word of Allah and His sacred law.
<p>Secondly, in the following sentence in verse 21, it was said: وَكَيْفَ تَأْخُذُونَهُ وَقَدْ أَفْضَىٰ بَعْضُكُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍ that is, how can you now take back what you had given her when not only the marriage has been solemnized, but you have also had access to each other in privacy? For, in this situa-tion, whatever has been given, if against dower, the woman certainly deserved it. She now owns it because she surrendered herself to her husband. The idea that it could be returned is senseless. Even if this money or property given by the husband was presented or gifted, even then, it is not possible that it could be returned because what a husband and wife give to each other as gift cannot be taken back. Such claim of its return is neither permissible in Shari` ah, nor is it legally enforced. So, marital bond prevents the taking back of what has been given as gift.</p><p>The same subject has been stated in the last sentence of verse 21: وَأَخَذْنَ مِنكُم مِّيثَاقًا غَلِيظًا (and they have taken a firm covenant from you). This 'covenant' is the bond of marriage which is solemnly attested to with the name of Allah before a gathering of people following a khutbah.</p><p>To sum up, once this marital covenant has been made and mutual privacy has brought the couple close together, to force the woman to return what was given to' her is open injustice and tyranny. All Muslims must abstain from it.</p>
Secondly, in the following sentence in verse 21, it was said: وَكَيْفَ تَأْخُذُونَهُ وَقَدْ أَفْضَىٰ بَعْضُكُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍ that is, how can you now take back what you had given her when not only the marriage has been solemnized, but you have also had access to each other in privacy? For, in this situa-tion, whatever has been given, if against dower, the woman certainly deserved it. She now owns it because she surrendered herself to her husband. The idea that it could be returned is senseless. Even if this money or property given by the husband was presented or gifted, even then, it is not possible that it could be returned because what a husband and wife give to each other as gift cannot be taken back. Such claim of its return is neither permissible in Shari` ah, nor is it legally enforced. So, marital bond prevents the taking back of what has been given as gift.The same subject has been stated in the last sentence of verse 21: وَأَخَذْنَ مِنكُم مِّيثَاقًا غَلِيظًا (and they have taken a firm covenant from you). This 'covenant' is the bond of marriage which is solemnly attested to with the name of Allah before a gathering of people following a khutbah.To sum up, once this marital covenant has been made and mutual privacy has brought the couple close together, to force the woman to return what was given to' her is open injustice and tyranny. All Muslims must abstain from it.