Glossary entry

عربي term or phrase:

إمساك بمعروف أو تسريح بإحسان

أنجليزي translation:

retained with honor (and love) or allowed to leave with (kindness and) grace

Added to glossary by zkt
Jul 20, 2007 06:44
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عربي term
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May 19, 2008 12:16: zkt changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/5582">Sami Khamou's</a> old entry - "إمساك بمعروف أو تسريح بإحسان"" to ""retained with honor (and love) or allowed to leave with (kindness and) grace""

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etained with honor (and love) or allowed to leave with (kindness and) grace

This sentence is taken from the Quran, (2 : 229) Here are some of the most known translations:
Translation of Yusuf Ali
...hold Together on equitable terms, or separate with kindness
Translation of Pickthall
...retained in kindness or released in honour
TRanslation of Qaribullah
...then an honorable keeping or allowed to go with kindness
Translation of Munshey
...must be retained with honor (and love) or allowed to leave with (kindness and) grace
Translation of Asad
...the marriage must either be resumed in fairness or dissolved in a goodly manner
Translation of Arberry
... then honourable retention or setting free kindly
Translation of Shakir
...then keep (them) in good fellowship or let (them) go with kindness
Translation of Khan
...either you retain her on reasonable terms or release her with kindness
Translation of Sarwar
...it must be continued with fairness or terminated with kindness
Translation of Sherali
... retain them in a becoming manner or send them away with kindness
Translation of Rodwell
...Keep them honourably, or put them away with kindness
Translation of Palmer
...keep them in reason, or let them go with kindness
Translation of Sale
...retain them with humanity, or dismiss them with kindness


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Note added at 22 mins (2007-07-20 07:06:43 GMT)
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retained (sorry for the typo)
Peer comment(s):

agree Iman Khaireddine : No choice but to agree ;-)
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Thank you Imane
agree Sam Berner (X) : Zina, ya immi, you have great potential :-)
1 ساعة
Thank you a lot Sam, I am really pleased to meet people so nice here. :-)
agree Abdelmonem Samir : nice big WOW for you!
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Thanks Abdel Monem
agree Turjuman97 : a long stretch to look for all these back-ups
3 ساعات
Thank you
agree Zeinab Asfour
4 ساعات
Thank you
agree Abdallah Ali
5 ساعات
Thank you
agree ahmed ismaiel owieda : nice work :)
7 ساعات
Thank you
agree Hani Hassaan : too effective in religious translations, lol, no shyness Zeina, it is only truth, barak Allah feky ya Zeina
9 ساعات
متشكرة يا هاني، أنتو بجد خجلتوني
agree Saleh Ayyub
2 أيام 3 ساعات
Thank you Saleh
agree younes-01 : YES !
11 أيام
Thank you Younes
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kindly maintain or leave with benevolence

direct translation
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either retain them in good fellowship or set them free with liberality

قال الله تعالي ( وإذا طلقتم النساء فبلغن أجلهن فأمسكوهن بمعروف أو سرحوهن بمعروف ، ولا تمسكوهن ضراراً لتعتدوا ، ومن يفعل ذلك فقد ظلم نفسه ، ولا تتخذوا آيات الله هزواً ، واذكروا نعمة الله عليكم وما أنزل عليكم من الكتاب والحكمة يعظكم به ، واتقوا الله واعلموا أن الله بكل شيء عليم ) .
[ البقرة : 231 ]

English version:
And when you divorce women and they reach their prescribed time, then either retain them in good fellowship or set them free with liberality, and do not retain them for injury, so that you exceed the limits, and whoever does this, he indeed is unjust to his own soul; and do not take Allah's communications for a mockery, and remember the favor of Allah upon you, and that which He has revealed to you of the Book and the Wisdom, admonishing you thereby; and be careful (of your duty to) Allah, and know that Allah is the Knower of all things.

Peer comment(s):

agree Zeinab Asfour : http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/002.qmt.html This is the same website, right!
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agree younes-01 : agree but the last word liberality ! Ihssan is not liberality!
11 أيام
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gently keeping or divorcing with giving legal rights

gently keeping or divorcing with giving legal rights
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The parties should either hold Together on equitable terms, or separate with kindness

A divorce is only permissible twice: after that, the parties should either hold Together on equitable terms, or separate with kindness.
This is the translation of Yousef Ali, kindly refer to: http://www.harunyahya.com/Quran_translation/Quran_translatio...
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agree younes-01 : ok
11 أيام
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then retention with beneficence or release in fairness

this is mentioned in the Holy Qur'an, Surat Al Baqrah (the Caw) verse 229.
this is the Translation of Professor Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali, the first dean of the Faculty of languages and Translation, Al Azhar University in Cairo (AUC).

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Note added at 76 days (2007-10-04 21:33:34 GMT) Post-grading
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this is the full translation of the Ayah (verse) 229. Surat Al Baqrah (the Caw)
229. Divorce is twice; then retention with beneficence or release in fairness. And it is not lawful for you to take anything of whatever you have brought (the women) except (in case) they both fear that they may not keep within (Literally: Keep up) the bounds of Allah. So, in case you fear that they may not keep within (Literally: Keep up) the bounds of Allah, it is no fault in them (both) for her to ransom herself. Those are the bounds of Allah; so, do not transgress them; and whoever transgresses the bounds of Allah then those are they (who are) the unjust.
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