تفسير الجلالين

Al-Jalālayn (English)

المحلي والسيوطي (ت ٨٦٤/٩١١ هـ)

The classic short gloss, woven into the verse, in Feras Hamza’s translation.

An-Nisāʾ 4:20 Juzʾ 4 Page 81

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Read in the muṣḥaf

تفسير الجلالين Al-Jalālayn (English)

And if you desire to exchange a wife in place of another, by divorcing the one, and you have given to one, of the spouses, a hundredweight, that is, a large sum as dowry, take of it nothing. Would you take it by way of calumny, injustice, and manifest sin? (buhtānan, ‘calumny’, and ithman, ‘sin’, end in the accusative because they are circumstantial qualifiers); the interrogative here is meant as a rebuke, and as a disavowal where He says: