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أَسكِنوهُنَّ مِن حَيثُ سَكَنتُم مِن وُجدِكُم وَلا تُضارّوهُنَّ لِتُضَيِّقوا عَلَيهِنَّ ۚ وَإِن كُنَّ أُولاتِ حَملٍ فَأَنفِقوا عَلَيهِنَّ حَتّىٰ يَضَعنَ حَملَهُنَّ ۚ فَإِن أَرضَعنَ لَكُم فَآتوهُنَّ أُجورَهُنَّ ۖ وَأتَمِروا بَينَكُم بِمَعروفٍ ۖ وَإِن تَعاسَرتُم فَسَتُرضِعُ لَهُ أُخرىٰ

Muhammad Asad

[Hence,] let the women [who are undergoing a waiting-period] live in the same manner as you live yourselves,1 In accordance with your means; and do not harass them with a view to making their lives a misery. And if they happen to be with child, spend freely on them until they deliver their burden; and if they nurse your offspring [after the divorce has become final], give them their [due] recompense; and take counsel with one another in a fair manner [about the child's future]. And if both of you find it difficult [that the mother should nurse the child],2 let another woman nurse it on behalf of him [who has begotten it].3
  • Lit., "let them dwell wherever you dwell" - i.e., tropically, "let them share fully your standard of living".
  • E.g., for reasons of her health, or because she intends to remarry, etc.
  • I.e., at the father's expense: see 2:233 and the corresponding notes 219 and 220.