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﴿11﴾ وَإِن فَاتَكُمْ شَيءٌ مِنْ أَزْوَاجِكُمْ إِلَى الْكُفَّارِ فَعَاقَبْتُمْ
فَآتُوا الَّذِينَ ذَهَبَتْ أَزْوَاجُهُم مِّثْلَ مَا أَنفَقُوا وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ
الَّذِي
أَنتُم بِهِ مُؤْمِنُونَ
11. And if some of your wives have gone from you to the disbelievers,
then you went out for an expedition [against them and] gained booty. Then
pay from
that booty to those whose wives have gone, the equivalent of what they had
spent. And fear Allah
in Whom you believe.
Exegesis
The losses incurred by Muslims owing to their conversion to the Islamic
faith should be compensated by the Islamic state. It is in this vein that
the blessed Verse is saying that in case some of your wives turn away from
the Islamic faith and join disbelievers and you conquer disbelievers and
gained booties, those who have lost their wives are to be compensated for
their bridal gifts. The preceding blessed Verse is saying that the bridal
gifts of such women are supposed to be borne by disbelievers as it is
considered the disbelievers' right to receive compensation for the bridal
gifts which they had paid to their former wives who had converted to the
Islamic faith and thereby had emigrated to Medina. Nonetheless, according to
some traditions, despite the fact that Muslims acted upon such just decree,
Meccan polytheists failed to do the same. Thus, is was decreed that to
compensate the losses incurred by men whose wives had turned away from the
Islamic faith and had joined Meccan polytheists, they were supposed to
receive booties equivalent to the losses incurred by them and thereafter the
remainder of the booties gained from the enemy could be distributed amongst
Muslims. According to Qur’an exegetes, the Arabic
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