ٱلْمُمْتَحَنَة : ١١

  • وَإِن And if
  • فَاتَكُمۡ have gone from you
  • شَيۡءٞ any
  • مِّنۡ of
  • أَزۡوَٰجِكُمۡ your wives
  • إِلَى to
  • ٱلۡكُفَّارِ the disbelievers
  • فَعَاقَبۡتُمۡ then your turn comes
  • فَـَٔاتُواْ then give
  • ٱلَّذِينَ (to) those who
  • ذَهَبَتۡ have gone
  • أَزۡوَٰجُهُم their wives
  • مِّثۡلَ (the) like
  • مَآ (of) what
  • أَنفَقُواْۚ they had spent
  • وَٱتَّقُواْ And fear
  • ٱللَّهَ Allah
  • ٱلَّذِيٓ (in) Whom
  • أَنتُم you
  • بِهِۦ [in Him]
  • مُؤۡمِنُونَ (are) believers
And if you have lost any of your wives to the disbelievers and you subsequently obtain [something],1 then give those whose wives have gone the equivalent of what they had spent. And fear Allāh, in whom you are believers.
Footnotes
1 - From the side of the disbelievers, i.e., war booty or a believing woman seeking refuge with the Muslims.
And if you lose any of your wives, that is to say, [if you lose] one or more of them - or [it means if you lose] anything of their dowries - by [their] going, to the disbelievers, as apostates, and so you retaliate, you embark upon a raid and capture spoils [from them], then give those whose wives have gone, from the spoils, the like of what they have expended, for their having lost it to the disbelievers. And fear God in Whom you believe. And indeed the believers did what they had been commanded to do in the way of paying [back] the disbelievers [the dowries of their former wives] and the believers [the dowries of the women who had apostatised]. Afterwards, however, this stipulation was annulled.