and it will not be within your power to treat your wives with equal fairness however much you may desire it and so do not allow yourselves to incline towards one to the exclusion of the other leaving her in a state as it were of having and not having a husband. but if you put things to rights and are conscious of him behold god is indeed muchforgiving a dispenser of grace.
ولن تستطيعوا أن تعدلوا بين النساء ولو حرصتم فلا تميلوا كل الميل فتذروها كالمعلقة وإن تصلحوا وتتقوا فإن الله كان غفورا رحيما