004:021

The Holy Qor-aan                                                                                                      004:021

وَاِنۡ اَرَدتُّمُ اسۡتِبۡدَالَ زَوۡجٍ مَّكَانَ زَوۡجٍ ۙ  وَّاٰتَيۡتُمۡ اِحۡدٰٮهُنَّ قِنۡطَارًا فَلَا تَاۡخُذُوۡا مِنۡهُ شَيۡـــًٔا‌ ؕ   اَ تَاۡخُذُوۡنَهٗ بُهۡتَانًا وَّاِثۡمًا مُّبِيۡنًا

Wa-in-aa-rut-toom-is-tib-daa-la-zao-jin-ma-kaa-na-zao-jin                                                    Wa-aa-tai-to-moo-hoon-na-qin-taa-run                                                                                          Fa-laa-tau-kho-zoo-min-ho-shai-aa                                                                                                    Aa-tau-kho-zoo-na-hoo-boh-taa-nun-wa-ith-mun-mo-be-na

And if you have intended to take a wife in place of a wife                                            And you had given to that one of them a heap of gold                                                    Then do not take back from it anything.                                                                            Will you take it by fabrication and obvious sin?

• وَ — Wa — And (= Conj., links words, phrases or clauses; additionally; but also; more over; though; when; while; yet; whereupon)
• اِنۡ — In — If (= In case; under the circumstances; when; when situation arises; whenever)
• اَرَدتّ — Aa-rut — Intended (= v., past., pl., 2^nd person. Aimed at; chose; concluded;  decided; determined; desired; made up minds; planned; resolved; sought; wanted; wished.  A/t/a, ‘desire,’ ‘decide,’ ‘intend’ and ‘wish’ but such translations in the present tense are inaccurate since the Holy Qor-aan has used the verb in the past tense)
• تُمُ — To-mo..(os) — You (= pro., pl., m., 2^nd person. You)
• اسۡتِبۡدَال — (o)S-tib-daa-la — Take (= Seeking exchange. This and the next three words have also been translated as ‘to take … in place of another,’ ‘have (one) in the place of another,’ ‘divorce a woman in order to wed another,’ ‘exchange a wife in place of another’ and ‘replace a wife by another’)
• زَوۡجٍ — Zao-jin– Wife (= n., s., Also, Associate; close companion; life-companion;  relation; mate; spouse)
• مَّكَانَ — Ma-kaa-na — In place of (= Changing the position; substitution)
• زَوۡجٍ — Zao-jin  — Wife (= n., s., Associate; close companion. See  زَوۡجٍ  above)
• وَّ — Wa — And (= Conj., links words, phrases or clauses. See وَ  above. A/t/a, ‘even if’)
• اٰتَيۡ —  Aa-taiy-to-moo — Gave (= v., past., m., pl., 2^nd person. Delivered; gifted; granted; had given; handed down; handed over; paid; presented; remitted. Also. awarded; bestowed; conferred; laid out. See 002:178. A/t/a, ‘dowry you have given’)
• تُمۡ — Toom — You (= pro., pl., m., 2^nd person. You)
• اِحۡدٰ — Aih-daa — Anyone of (= n., Refers to any wife. The prohibition against taking back a given gift mandated by this and the next word applies in totality to ‘any of them’ or ‘anyone of them.’ This prohibition does not apply in selectivity to just ‘one of them’ and thereby allowing to take back the gift from the remaining wives)
• هُنَّ — Hoon-na — Them (= pl, f, 3^rd person. Reference to the wives)
• قِنۡطَارًا — Qin-taa-run — Heap of gold (= n., s.., Heap, hill, hoard, mound or pile of gold, silver or similar other reserves, riches, treasure or valuables. A/t/a, ‘treasure,’ ‘huge treasures,’ ‘talent of gold,’ ‘heap of gold,’ ‘a sum of money (however great,’ ‘a whole treasure for dower,’ ‘a kantar (a measurement of weight’ and ‘a Qantar (of gold, i.e., a great amount as Mahr)’)
• فَ — Fa — Then (= Hence; so; thus; after all this; at the end; in conclusion)
• لَا — Laa — No (= Naught; neither; never; none; nor; not at all; absolute denial and total negation without exception)
• تَاۡخُذُوۡا — Tau-kho-zoo — Take back (= v., pl., Seize. Recover. Withdraw.  Refers to taking  back forcibly or menacingly any part of the dowry or gifts given to a wife)
• مِنۡ — Min — From (= Among, from or out of the class or category of several articles, counts, kind, things, persons or phenomenon)
• هُ — Ho — It (= pro., s., m., 3^rd person. Refers to the aforesaid gift)
• شَيۡـــًٔا‌ — Shai-aa — Anything (= Anything at all however little or insignificant. A whit.  Not the least. Smallest part of an article, item, object, material, thing, matter, type, phenomenon or stuff. To the least extent. Also, Some, something or somewhat. A/t/a, ‘aught,’ ‘nothing,’ ‘anything’ and ‘least bit of it’)
• اَ —  Aa — Will (= Question mark such as are, can, do, have or shell?)
• تَاۡخُذُوۡا — Tau-kho-zoo — You take back (= v., pl., Seize. Recover. Withdraw.  Refers to anything given as a gift to wife. A/t/a, if you take it, it would be’ and ‘would you take it’)
• هٗ — Hoo — That (= pro., s., m., 3^rd person. Refers to the aforesaid gift)

The next 4-words are also in 004:113.

• بُهۡتَانًا — Boh-taa-nun –Fabrication (= n., Absolutely evil, false, frivolous, malicious, malignant, total and wrongful accusation, allegation, blame, libel, calumny, defamation, denigration, fabrication, insult, falsehood, lie, misrepresentation, slander, slight, slur or smear, vilification. A/t/a, ‘by calumny,’ ‘by way of calumny,’ ‘by false accusation,’ ‘by slender,’ ‘slandering’ (her),’ ‘improper,’ ‘oppression’ and ‘wrongfully without a right’)
• وَّ — Wa — And (= Conj., links words, phrases or clauses. See وَ  above)
• اِثۡمًا‌ — Ith-mun — Sin (= n., An act of disobedience; doing wrong; sinfulness  committed continually, incessantly and repeatedly. A/t/a, ‘sin,’ ‘sinfulness,’ ‘wrong’  and ‘unjust’)
• مُّبِيۡنًا‏ — Mo-bee-na — Obvious (= adj., Apparent; clear; evident; flagrant; glaring; gross; lucid; manifest; obvious; open; palpable; patent, unambiguous; unmistakable. A situation that is avowed, cleared, declared, marked or sworn to be without any blemish, hindrance or obstruction which could cloud or fog the view. Also as an adv: clearly; evidently; grossly; manifestly; obviously; openly)