The Holy Quran 60:11 — Surah Al-Mumtahanah

Arabic text

وَإِن فَاتَكُمْ شَىْءٌ مِّنْ أَزْوَٰجِكُمْ إِلَى ٱلْكُفَّارِ فَعَاقَبْتُمْ فَـَٔاتُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ ذَهَبَتْ أَزْوَٰجُهُم مِّثْلَ مَآ أَنفَقُوا۟ ۚ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنتُم بِهِۦ مُؤْمِنُونَ

Translation

If you (Muslim men) lose any of your wives to the Kuffaar (she marries a Kaafir who refuses to pay you back your dowry) and then you have your own back (when any of the women of the Kuffaar accepts Islaam and comes over to the Muslims), then (from the money owing to the Kuffaar ex-husbands, you may) pay those (Muslim men) who have lost their wives (to the Kuffaar without receiving their dowries back) the equivalent (equal) of what (dowries) they have spent. Fear Allaah in Whom you believe.

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The just teaching of Islam: that is, if the wife of a Muslim has left and the disbelievers do not return what he spent, then, when the wife of some disbeliever comes to the Muslims, what was due to be paid to that disbeliever should not be given to him, but to that Muslim whose right was denied; and whatever remains after that Muslim's due has been paid…

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