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004.011 God (thus) directs you as regards your Children's (Inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two
females: if only daughters, two or more, their share is two-thirds of the inheritance; if only one, her share is a half. For
parents, a sixth share of the inheritance to each, if the deceased left children; if no children, and the parents are the
(only) heirs, the mother has a third; if the deceased Left brothers (or sisters) the mother has a sixth. (The distribution
in all cases ('s) after the payment of legacies and debts. Ye know not whether your parents or your children are nearest
to you in benefit. These are settled portions ordained by God; and God is All-knowing, Al- wise.
004.012 In what your wives leave, your share is a half, if they leave no child; but if they leave a child, ye get a fourth;
after payment of legacies and debts. In what ye leave, their share is a fourth, if ye leave no child; but if ye leave a child,
they get an eighth; after payment of legacies and debts. If the man or woman whose inheritance is in question, has left
neither ascendants nor descendants, but has left a brother or a sister, each one of the two gets a sixth; but if more than
two, they share in a third; after payment of legacies and debts; so that no loss is caused (to any one). Thus is it ordained
by God; and God is All-knowing, Most Forbearing.
004.013 Those are limits set by God: those who obey God and His Apostle will be admitted to Gardens with rivers
flowing beneath, to abide therein (for ever) and that will be the supreme achievement.
004.014 But those who disobey God and His Apostle and transgress His limits will be admitted to a Fire, to abide
therein: And they shall have a humiliating punishment.
004.015 If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence of four (Reliable) witnesses from amongst
you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or God ordain for them some
(other) way.
004.016 If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone;
for God is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.
004.017 God accept the repentance of those who do evil in ignorance and repent soon afterwards; to them will God
turn in mercy: For God is full of knowledge and wisdom.
004.018 Of no effect is the repentance of those who continue to do evil, until death faces one of them, and he says,
"Now have I repented indeed;" nor of those who die rejecting Faith: for them have We prepared a punishment most
grievous.
004.019 O ye who believe! Ye are forbidden to inherit women against their will. Nor should ye treat them with
harshness, that ye may Take away part of the dower ye have given them,-except where they have been guilty of open
lewdness; on the contrary live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If ye take a dislike to them it may be that
ye dislike a thing, and God brings about through it a great deal of good.
004.020 But if ye decide to take one wife in place of another, even if ye had given the latter a whole treasure for dower,
Take not the least bit of it back: Would ye take it by slander and manifest wrong?
004.021 And how could ye take it when ye have gone in unto each other, and they have Taken from you a solemn
covenant?
004.022 And marry not women whom your fathers married,- except what is past: It was shameful and odious,- an
abominable custom indeed.
004.023 Prohibited to you (For marriage) are:- Your mothers, daughters, sisters; father's sisters, Mother's sisters;
brother's daughters, sister's daughters; foster-mothers (Who gave you suck), foster-sisters; your wives' mothers; your
step-daughters under your guardianship, born of your wives to whom ye have gone in,- no prohibition if ye have not
gone in;- (Those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and
the same time, except for what is past; for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful;-
004.024 Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess: Thus hath God
ordained (Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in marriage) with
gifts from your property,- desiring chastity, not lust, seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers
(at least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree Mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and
God is All-knowing, All-wise.
004.025 If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women, they may wed believing girls from
among those whom your right hands possess: And God hath full knowledge about your faith. Ye are one from another:
Wed them with the leave of their owners, and give them their dowers, according to what is reasonable: They should