You1 said to the man2 whom God and yourself have favoured: ‘Keep your wife and have fear of God.’ You sought to hide in your heart what God was to reveal.3 You were afraid of man, although it would have been more proper to fear God. And when Zayd divorced his wife, We gave her to you in marriage, so that it should become legitimate for true believers to wed the wives of their adopted sons if they divorced them. God’s will must needs be done.