Surah An-Nisa (النساء) • The Women

Quran 4:20

4:20

وَإِنْ أَرَدتُّمُ ٱسْتِبْدَالَ زَوْجٍ مَّكَانَ زَوْجٍ وَءَاتَيْتُمْ إِحْدَىٰهُنَّ قِنطَارًا فَلَا تَأْخُذُوا۟ مِنْهُ شَيْـًٔا ۚ أَتَأْخُذُونَهُۥ بُهْتَـٰنًا وَإِثْمًا مُّبِينًا

wa-in aradttumu is'tib'dāla zawjin makāna zawjin waātaytum iḥ'dāhunna qinṭāran falā takhudhū min'hu shayan atakhudhūnahu buh'tānan wa-ith'man mubīnan

But if you want to replace one wife with another and you have given one of them a great amount [in gifts], do not take [back] from it anything. Would you take it in injustice and manifest sin?

— Saheeh International

If you wish to replace one wife with another, do not take any of her bride-gift back, even if you have given her a great amount of gold.

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

But if you intend to replace a wife by another and you have given one of them a Qintâr (of gold i.e. a great amount as Mahr) take not the least bit of it back; would you take it wrongfully without a right and (with) a manifest sin?

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

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Word by Word

وَإِنْwa-inAnd if
أَرَدتُّمُaradttumuyou intend
ٱسْتِبْدَالَis'tib'dālareplacing
زَوْجٍۢzawjina wife
مَّكَانَmakāna(in) place
زَوْجٍۢzawjin(of) a wife
وَءَاتَيْتُمْwaātaytumand you have given
إِحْدَىٰهُنَّiḥ'dāhunnaone of them
قِنطَارًۭاqinṭāranheap (of gold)
فَلَاfalāthen (do) not
تَأْخُذُوا۟takhudhūtake away
مِنْهُmin'hufrom it
شَيْـًٔاۚshayananything
أَتَأْخُذُونَهُۥatakhudhūnahuWould you take it
بُهْتَـٰنًۭاbuh'tānan(by) slander
وَإِثْمًۭاwa-ith'manand a sin
مُّبِينًۭاmubīnanopen