مَا جَعَلَ اللّٰہُ لِرَجُلٍ مِّنۡ قَلۡبَیۡنِ فِیۡ جَوۡفِہٖ ۚ وَ مَا جَعَلَ اَزۡوَاجَکُمُ الّٰٓیِٴۡ تُظٰہِرُوۡنَ مِنۡہُنَّ اُمَّہٰتِکُمۡ ۚ وَ مَا جَعَلَ اَدۡعِیَآءَکُمۡ اَبۡنَآءَکُمۡ ؕ ذٰلِکُمۡ قَوۡلُکُمۡ بِاَفۡوَاہِکُمۡ ؕ وَ اللّٰہُ یَقُوۡلُ الۡحَقَّ وَ ہُوَ یَہۡدِی السَّبِیۡلَ ﴿۴﴾
4. Allah does not place two hearts in a person’s breast. Nor does He consider your wives whom you repudiate by zihar* (to be unlawful for you) as your (real) mothers. Nor does He consider your adopted sons as your (actual) sons. These are only words from your mouths, but Allah speaks the truth. And He (alone) guides the way.
* Zihar was a pre-Islamic Arabian practice in which a man could repudiate his wife by saying: ‘You are to me as my mother’s back (zahr).’ By declaring this, the wife was deprived of her marital rights but was not yet free to contract another marriage. Islam abolished this unjust practice.
