The Holy Quran 2:236 — Surah Al-Baqarah

Arabic text

لَّا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِن طَلَّقْتُمُ ٱلنِّسَآءَ مَا لَمْ تَمَسُّوهُنَّ أَوْ تَفْرِضُوا۟ لَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةً ۚ وَمَتِّعُوهُنَّ عَلَى ٱلْمُوسِعِ قَدَرُهُۥ وَعَلَى ٱلْمُقْتِرِ قَدَرُهُۥ مَتَـٰعًۢا بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ ۖ حَقًّا عَلَى ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ

Translation

There is no sin on you if you divorce women while yet you have not touched them (not yet met with them in privacy) nor fixed a dowry for them. Provide for them, the rich man according to his means and the poor man according to his means. (Give them) A fair provision which is rightly due from those who do good.

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

On the mahr: if the mahr (dower) was not mentioned at the time of the marriage and the marriage was contracted without any mahr at all, the marriage is still valid, and the mahr will be fixed later. But in this case, if he divorced her before touching her, that is, before intercourse and before khalwah sahihah (valid seclusion)

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