It is lawful for you to have intercourse with your wives on the night of the Fast: they are garments for you while you are garments for them . God knows how you have been deceiving yourselves, so He has relented towards you and pardoned you. Now [feel free to] frequent them and seek what God has prescribed for you. Eat and drink until the white streak [of dawn] can be distinguished by you from the black thread [of night] at daybreak. Then complete the Fast until nightfall and have no dealings with women while you are secluded at your devotions in the mosques. Such are God’s limits, so do not attempt to cross them! Thus God explains His signs to mankind so they may do their duty.