The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 243
PT. 28 AL-MUMTAHINAH CH. 60 بِإِيْمَانِهِنَّ فَإِنْ عَلِمْتُمُوهُنَّ مُؤمِنتِ you find them true believers فَلَا تَرْجِعُوهُنَّ إِلَى الْكُفَّارِ لَا هُنَّ حِلٌّ لَّهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحِلُّونَ لَهُنَّ ، وَاتُوهُمْ مَّا انْفَقُوا وَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ b تَنْكِحُوهُنَّ إِذَا أَتَيْتُمُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ on them. Thereafter it is no sin وَلَا تُمْسِكُوا بِعِصَمِ الْكَوَافِرِ وَسْلُوْا you have given them their send them not back to the disbelievers. These women are not lawful for them, nor are they lawful for these women. But give their disbelieving husbands what they have spent for you to marry them, when dowries. And hold not to your matrimonial ties disbelieving women;" but demand the return of that which you have spent; and let the disbelievers demand that which they have spent. That is the judgement of Allah. He judges between you. And Allah is All- Knowing, Wise. 4218 مَا أَنْفَقْتُمْ وَلْيَسْتَلُوا مَا أَنْفَقُوا ذَلِكُمْ with the حُكْمُ اللهِ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَكُمْ وَاللهُ عليم 4218. Commentary: "4:5,25. b2:222. Here is a testimony to the irresistible appeal of the Message of Islam. At a time when Muslims were being bitterly persecuted and it was not safe to leave Mecca and join the Muslim Community at Medina, a continuous stream of believers was pouring into Medina, leaving behind in Mecca their dear and near ones. These Refugees contained a fair number of women among them. The verse under comment refers to such refugee Muslim women. The verse 3139 also constitutes an eloquent commentary on the Holy Prophet's anxiety not to accept into the Muslim Community any woman who had fled from Mecca unless there was proof available, after subjecting her to searching examination, that she was sincere, and honest in her faith and that she was accepting Islam out of no ulterior or otherwise objectionable motives. The verse further states that the marriage-tie between a refugee believing woman and her dis- believing husband becomes dissolved when she joins the Muslim