{
  "number": 65,
  "slug": "talaq",
  "name": "At-Talaq",
  "arabicName": "الطلاق",
  "meaning": "Divorce",
  "juz": 28,
  "period": "Madinan",
  "tagline": "DIGNITY, CARE & RESPONSIBILITY THROUGH SEPARATION",
  "overview": "The chapter brings careful limits, fair treatment and continuing provision into the difficult process of marital separation. Trust does not replace responsibility: waiting, testimony, housing and care are placed within a wider reminder of accountability and divine knowledge.",
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      "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)",
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    {
      "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)",
      "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih"
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    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com",
      "url": "https://quran.com/at-talaq/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "622 CE period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira"
    },
    {
      "title": "632 CE period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Mahomet"
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    {
      "title": "Ibn Umar and divorce timing · Bukhari 5251",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5251"
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    {
      "title": "Waiting periods · Ibn Kathir",
      "url": "https://quran.com/at-talaq/4/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
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    {
      "n": 1,
      "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّبِىُّ إِذَا طَلَّقْتُمُ ٱلنِّسَآءَ فَطَلِّقُوهُنَّ لِعِدَّتِهِنَّ وَأَحْصُوا۟ ٱلْعِدَّةَ ۖ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ رَبَّكُمْ ۖ لَا تُخْرِجُوهُنَّ مِنۢ بُيُوتِهِنَّ وَلَا يَخْرُجْنَ إِلَّآ أَن يَأْتِينَ بِفَٰحِشَةٍۢ مُّبَيِّنَةٍۢ ۚ وَتِلْكَ حُدُودُ ٱللَّهِ ۚ وَمَن يَتَعَدَّ حُدُودَ ٱللَّهِ فَقَدْ ظَلَمَ نَفْسَهُۥ ۚ لَا تَدْرِى لَعَلَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحْدِثُ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ أَمْرًۭا",
      "translation": "O Prophet, when you [Muslims] divorce women, divorce them for [the commencement of] their waiting period and keep count of the waiting period, and fear Allah, your Lord. Do not turn them out of their [husbands'] houses, nor should they [themselves] leave [during that period] unless they are committing a clear immorality. And those are the limits [set by] Allah. And whoever transgresses the limits of Allah has certainly wronged himself. You know not; perhaps Allah will bring about after that a [different] matter."
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "arabic": "فَإِذَا بَلَغْنَ أَجَلَهُنَّ فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ بِمَعْرُوفٍ أَوْ فَارِقُوهُنَّ بِمَعْرُوفٍۢ وَأَشْهِدُوا۟ ذَوَىْ عَدْلٍۢ مِّنكُمْ وَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلشَّهَٰدَةَ لِلَّهِ ۚ ذَٰلِكُمْ يُوعَظُ بِهِۦ مَن كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْءَاخِرِ ۚ وَمَن يَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُۥ مَخْرَجًۭا",
      "translation": "And when they have [nearly] fulfilled their term, either retain them according to acceptable terms or part with them according to acceptable terms. And bring to witness two just men from among you and establish the testimony for [the acceptance of] Allah. That is instructed to whoever should believe in Allah and the Last day. And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him a way out"
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "arabic": "وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ ۚ وَمَن يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُۥٓ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بَٰلِغُ أَمْرِهِۦ ۚ قَدْ جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدْرًۭا",
      "translation": "And will provide for him from where he does not expect. And whoever relies upon Allah - then He is sufficient for him. Indeed, Allah will accomplish His purpose. Allah has already set for everything a [decreed] extent."
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "arabic": "وَٱلَّٰٓـِٔى يَئِسْنَ مِنَ ٱلْمَحِيضِ مِن نِّسَآئِكُمْ إِنِ ٱرْتَبْتُمْ فَعِدَّتُهُنَّ ثَلَٰثَةُ أَشْهُرٍۢ وَٱلَّٰٓـِٔى لَمْ يَحِضْنَ ۚ وَأُو۟لَٰتُ ٱلْأَحْمَالِ أَجَلُهُنَّ أَن يَضَعْنَ حَمْلَهُنَّ ۚ وَمَن يَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُۥ مِنْ أَمْرِهِۦ يُسْرًۭا",
      "translation": "And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women - if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated. And for those who are pregnant, their term is until they give birth. And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him of his matter ease."
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ أَمْرُ ٱللَّهِ أَنزَلَهُۥٓ إِلَيْكُمْ ۚ وَمَن يَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ يُكَفِّرْ عَنْهُ سَيِّـَٔاتِهِۦ وَيُعْظِمْ لَهُۥٓ أَجْرًا",
      "translation": "That is the command of Allah, which He has sent down to you; and whoever fears Allah - He will remove for him his misdeeds and make great for him his reward."
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "arabic": "أَسْكِنُوهُنَّ مِنْ حَيْثُ سَكَنتُم مِّن وُجْدِكُمْ وَلَا تُضَآرُّوهُنَّ لِتُضَيِّقُوا۟ عَلَيْهِنَّ ۚ وَإِن كُنَّ أُو۟لَٰتِ حَمْلٍۢ فَأَنفِقُوا۟ عَلَيْهِنَّ حَتَّىٰ يَضَعْنَ حَمْلَهُنَّ ۚ فَإِنْ أَرْضَعْنَ لَكُمْ فَـَٔاتُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ ۖ وَأْتَمِرُوا۟ بَيْنَكُم بِمَعْرُوفٍۢ ۖ وَإِن تَعَاسَرْتُمْ فَسَتُرْضِعُ لَهُۥٓ أُخْرَىٰ",
      "translation": "Lodge them [in a section] of where you dwell out of your means and do not harm them in order to oppress them. And if they should be pregnant, then spend on them until they give birth. And if they breastfeed for you, then give them their payment and confer among yourselves in the acceptable way; but if you are in discord, then there may breastfeed for the father another woman."
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "arabic": "لِيُنفِقْ ذُو سَعَةٍۢ مِّن سَعَتِهِۦ ۖ وَمَن قُدِرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقُهُۥ فَلْيُنفِقْ مِمَّآ ءَاتَىٰهُ ٱللَّهُ ۚ لَا يُكَلِّفُ ٱللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا مَآ ءَاتَىٰهَا ۚ سَيَجْعَلُ ٱللَّهُ بَعْدَ عُسْرٍۢ يُسْرًۭا",
      "translation": "Let a man of wealth spend from his wealth, and he whose provision is restricted - let him spend from what Allah has given him. Allah does not charge a soul except [according to] what He has given it. Allah will bring about, after hardship, ease."
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "arabic": "وَكَأَيِّن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ عَتَتْ عَنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّهَا وَرُسُلِهِۦ فَحَاسَبْنَٰهَا حِسَابًۭا شَدِيدًۭا وَعَذَّبْنَٰهَا عَذَابًۭا نُّكْرًۭا",
      "translation": "And how many a city was insolent toward the command of its Lord and His messengers, so We took it to severe account and punished it with a terrible punishment."
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "فَذَاقَتْ وَبَالَ أَمْرِهَا وَكَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ أَمْرِهَا خُسْرًا",
      "translation": "And it tasted the bad consequence of its affair, and the outcome of its affair was loss."
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "أَعَدَّ ٱللَّهُ لَهُمْ عَذَابًۭا شَدِيدًۭا ۖ فَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ يَٰٓأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَلْبَٰبِ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ۚ قَدْ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ إِلَيْكُمْ ذِكْرًۭا",
      "translation": "Allah has prepared for them a severe punishment; so fear Allah, O you of understanding who have believed. Allah has sent down to you the Qur'an."
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "arabic": "رَّسُولًۭا يَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْكُمْ ءَايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ مُبَيِّنَٰتٍۢ لِّيُخْرِجَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ مِنَ ٱلظُّلُمَٰتِ إِلَى ٱلنُّورِ ۚ وَمَن يُؤْمِنۢ بِٱللَّهِ وَيَعْمَلْ صَٰلِحًۭا يُدْخِلْهُ جَنَّٰتٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَآ أَبَدًۭا ۖ قَدْ أَحْسَنَ ٱللَّهُ لَهُۥ رِزْقًا",
      "translation": "[He sent] a Messenger [Muhammad] reciting to you the distinct verses of Allah that He may bring out those who believe and do righteous deeds from darknesses into the light. And whoever believes in Allah and does righteousness - He will admit him into gardens beneath which rivers flow to abide therein forever. Allah will have perfected for him a provision."
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "arabic": "ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَٰوَٰتٍۢ وَمِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّ يَتَنَزَّلُ ٱلْأَمْرُ بَيْنَهُنَّ لِتَعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدِيرٌۭ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَدْ أَحَاطَ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عِلْمًۢا",
      "translation": "It is Allah who has created seven heavens and of the earth, the like of them. [His] command descends among them so you may know that Allah is over all things competent and that Allah has encompassed all things in knowledge."
    }
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  "titles": [
    "Count the waiting period and respect the home",
    "Reconcile or part with kindness",
    "Provision beyond expectation",
    "Different waiting circumstances",
    "Responsibility and forgiveness",
    "Housing, support and consultation",
    "Spend according to your means",
    "The accountability of communities",
    "The consequences of conduct",
    "A reminder for people of understanding",
    "From darkness into light",
    "Creation encompassed by knowledge"
  ],
  "notes": [
    "The opening joins the timing of separation with counting the waiting period and respecting residence. Its repeated attention to limits restrains impulsive action. The final possibility of a new development leaves room for circumstances to change.",
    "Kindness is required in both reconciliation and parting. The call for upright witnesses makes the process answerable beyond private anger. The promise of a way out appears within these responsibilities rather than as a substitute for them.",
    "Provision and trust continue the sentence begun in the previous verse. Their place beside testimony and fair treatment matters. The passage joins dependence on Allah with the practical duties already placed on the people involved.",
    "The verse distinguishes waiting periods where menstruation has ceased or has not occurred, and during pregnancy. Classical commentary includes prepubescent cases under the second category. That historical interpretation is identified explicitly; the verse itself specifies no marriage age.",
    "The directions are presented as a command and joined to forgiveness and increased reward. Practical treatment of others remains within moral responsibility. The verse links attention to these limits with hope rather than only with warning.",
    "Residence, pregnancy support, nursing payment and kind consultation are addressed together. The prohibition on harassment is especially direct. Separation does not erase the need for care, and difficulty between adults must not make the child’s nourishment an afterthought.",
    "Spending is measured according to what a person has been given. The verse recognizes differences of means while retaining responsibility. Its promise of ease after hardship offers hope within a passage dealing with real material strain.",
    "The focus widens from households to communities that resisted their Lord and messengers. No specific town is named here. The warning connects the treatment of obligations in ordinary life with the broader reality of accountability.",
    "Conduct has consequences that the communities themselves experience. The verse continues the previous warning rather than introducing a separate historical story. Its language of loss recalls the cost of treating responsibility as something that can be ignored.",
    "People of understanding are addressed directly and called to keep their duty. The reminder follows the account of earlier communities. The chapter asks the reader to learn before experiencing the consequence of repeating their response.",
    "The messenger’s clear recitation is described as bringing believers from darkness to light. Good works and enduring provision accompany that movement. The promise broadens the chapter beyond separation while preserving its concern with how people act.",
    "The closing expands to seven heavens and a corresponding earth, divine command and encompassing knowledge. It does not provide a modern geographical diagram. The scale reinforces that private household conduct is not outside the knowledge of the Creator."
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 3,
      "title": "A dignified way through separation",
      "summary": "Careful timing, respect for residence, kindness and upright testimony frame trust and a way forward.",
      "reflection": "What would fairness require even when a relationship has become painful?"
    },
    {
      "start": 4,
      "end": 7,
      "title": "Care, provision and the needs of a child",
      "summary": "Different waiting circumstances and financial capacities are acknowledged alongside housing, nursing and consultation.",
      "reflection": "How can practical care continue when adults are struggling to agree?"
    },
    {
      "start": 8,
      "end": 12,
      "title": "Responsibility beneath an encompassing sky",
      "summary": "Earlier communities, clear revelation and the created order widen the perspective on everyday obligations.",
      "reflection": "Which private choices become clearer when you view them as matters of responsibility rather than power?"
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "title": "622–632 CE · Madinan period",
      "year": 622,
      "endYear": 632,
      "body": "At-Talaq is classified as Madinan. The range marks the broad period between the Hijrah and the end of the Prophet’s lifetime; it does not date each legal instruction or reported incident precisely.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/at-talaq/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "During the Prophet’s lifetime · Ibn Umar’s case",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Bukhari 5251 relates a divorce during menstruation and the Prophet’s instruction through Umar to reverse that action and observe proper timing. The report supplies no calendar date for the incident.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5251"
    },
    {
      "title": "Earlier communities · a warning without named dates",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 8–10 recall communities held accountable for refusing guidance. The chapter names no settlement or year, so this reader does not assign an excavated ruin to the example.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/065.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Beyond hardship · the promised horizon",
      "year": null,
      "body": "The chapter joins present duties to ease, forgiveness and lasting reward. These promises are part of its moral horizon, not dated milestones from a recovered household record.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/065.htm"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "madinah",
      "name": "Madinah · the setting of community guidance",
      "body": "The Madinan classification places the chapter within the developing Muslim community. It does not identify the precise house where its instructions were first heard or applied.",
      "lat": 24.4672,
      "lon": 39.6111,
      "source": "https://quran.com/at-talaq/info",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "homes",
      "name": "The homes of separated families · unnamed",
      "body": "Verses 1 and 6 expressly address residence and warn against harassment. No particular surviving house is identified. The imagined domestic scene emphasizes shelter and care rather than an authenticated historical interior.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/065.htm",
      "image": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "creation",
      "name": "Heavens and earth · a widening perspective",
      "body": "The final verse extends the view from household duties to creation. Its seven heavens and corresponding earth are not presented here as a modern map or a claim about a particular archaeological site.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/065.htm",
      "image": 2
    }
  ],
  "people": [
    {
      "id": "ibn-umar",
      "title": "Abdullah ibn Umar · a reported correction",
      "body": "Bukhari 5251 records Ibn Umar’s account of divorcing his wife during menstruation. Umar brought the matter to the Prophet, whose response concerned reversing the action and observing the proper period.",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5251",
      "label": "Read Bukhari 5251"
    },
    {
      "id": "couple",
      "title": "The separating couple · kindness in either outcome",
      "body": "Verse 2 requires kindness whether the couple reconcile or part. The chapter gives both the continuing relationship and the ending of it moral boundaries, rather than allowing hurt to decide the rules.",
      "verse": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "witnesses",
      "title": "Upright witnesses · a public responsibility",
      "body": "The call for two just witnesses and upright testimony brings accountability into a difficult private process. The verse does not name particular witnesses or establish a surviving record of a specific hearing.",
      "verse": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "mothers",
      "title": "Mothers and children · care that continues",
      "body": "Verse 6 addresses pregnancy support, nursing payment and consultation. Its practical details show that separation between adults does not remove the need to provide for pregnancy and a child’s nourishment.",
      "verse": 6
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "title": "A report about applying the waiting period",
      "body": "The Ibn Umar narration provides a concrete example of the Prophet correcting divorce timing. It should not be stretched into proof that every verse of this chapter was revealed during that single conversation.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5251"
    },
    {
      "title": "Waiting periods in classical explanation",
      "body": "Ibn Kathir discusses cessation of menstruation, those not yet menstruating and pregnancy as distinct cases. This is historical exegesis of the waiting-period language; the chapter does not itself state an age for marriage.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/at-talaq/4/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "Material care is part of the passage",
      "body": "Residence, spending and payment for nursing are explicit in verses 6–7. These details keep the chapter’s references to trust and ease connected with concrete responsibilities toward people affected by separation.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/065.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "From the household to creation",
      "body": "The final movement links community accountability, clear revelation and the heavens and earth. That broad ending prevents the opening rules from being read as merely a contest of advantage between private parties.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/065.htm"
    }
  ],
  "revelationNote": "Madinan. The 622–632 CE range marks the broad mission period. The Ibn Umar report supplies a case concerning divorce timing, without an exact year or proof that the whole chapter arrived on one occasion."
}