Quran
Chptr 4-20&21 (Pt-4,Stg-1)(L-525)- درس قرآن
Paying dower by husband
Surah ‘An-Nisaaa’ (The Women) – Chapter – 4)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allah, the
Beneficent, the Merciful
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20. And if ye wish to exchange
one wife for another and ye have given unto one of them a sum of money
(however great), take nothing from it. Would ye take it by the way of calumny
and open wrong?
21. 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?
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20. Wa ‘in
‘arattumus-tib-daala zawjim-makaana zawjinw-wa
‘aataytum ‘ihdaahun-na qintaaran falaa
ta’-khuzuu minhu shay-‘aa. ‘A-ta’-khuzuu-nahuu
buhtaananw-wa ‘is-mam-mubiinaa.
21. Wa kayfa
ta’khuzuuna-huu wa qad ‘afzaa ba’-zukum
‘ilaa ba’-zinw-wa ‘akhazna minkum-miisaaqan
galiizaa.
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Commentary
During the times of ignorance
before Islam, there was a tradition also that whenever any person used to wish
to marry some other woman leaving the earlier wife, in that case he used to
accuse her wife falsely and tyrannize her of various sorts. So that she might
return the money of mahr under compulsion and get divorce, in
like manner, this money may be used in the second marriage. It has been
restricted in these verses that while you have given much wealth to your first
wife and now you wish to marry any other woman leaving the first, then you
should not take back that wealth or money. It is unlawful to take back the
given money from the first wife by the way of calumny and open wrong.
At the very time, the man and
the woman have gone in unto one another, kept company with each other and
reached the certain point of copulation, then the mahr (the money or its value incumbent on
the husband) has become payable upon the man to his wife. How can it be lawful
for the husband to get back that money of mahr and how can he press the woman if she
does not want to return? There can be only one mode to get back the mahr i.e. if the woman exempts it with her
pleasure. While these women have taken a strong pledge from you and you have
reaped the complete advantage from them, then how can it be lawful either not
to pay them or get back the money (incumbent on you) of mahr, which you
have already paid?
Remember it that as after
copulation the entire mahr becomes incumbent on the husband to be
paid, like this, if correct solitude has taken place between the two (husband
and wife), even then complete mahr will be payable. However, if they have
not reached the point of correct solitude and the husband has divorced her
wife, then the mahr will be paid half. These matters have
already been discussed in chapter -2 (Surah ‘Al-Baqarah).
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