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Often appears with: treatment of wives · marriage and betrothal · justice as a virtue · god’s mercy · equity, mercy, and pardon · avoiding injustice
Usually: argument (1) · reconciliation (1) · exhortation (1) · indignation (1)
“If ye do good and keep from evil, lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” Ali, Abdullah Yusuf; Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Shakir, M. H., Three translations of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by · precept
It orders Muslims not to abandon one’s wife “as in suspense,” urges justice and reconciliation, and repeatedly affirms God’s authority and forgiveness, including guidance about inheritance-related ethics and household fairness.
wish (to do so). But turn not altogether away (from one), leaving her as in suspense. If ye do good and keep from evil, lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful. S: And you have it not in your power to do justice between wives, even though you may wish (it), but be not disinclined (from one) with total disinclination, so that you leave her as it were in suspense; and if you effect a reconciliation and guard (against ev…