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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 4:21 Juzʾ 4 Page 81

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Read in the muṣḥaf
تفسير الجلالين Al-Jalālayn (English)

How shall you take it, that is, by what right, when each of you has been privily with the other, through sexual intercourse, which validates the dowry, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant, a binding pledge, and that is what God commanded, namely, that they should be retained honourably or set free virtuously.