Al-Baqarah 230: If the man divorces the woman (for the third time), she is not permissible for him unless she has married another man. If this person also divorces her, then there is no objection for them to remarry as long as they believe that they will be able to keep the borders of Allah. These are Allah’s borders. Allah explains these for those who want to learn/understand.

We have come to the (?) verse. Verse 230. If a man divorces the woman for the third time, then, unless the woman marries another man, taking her back is not lawful for him; it is forbidden to him. People who act in this way, because they overstep Allah's limits, are people who are very unjust to their own selves. They are people who do not heed Allah's command, who live within their own selfish feelings and deify their own selves. If a man uses all three rights of divorce that come with the marriage — we said there are three spiritual bonds, didn't we — here the man holds all three of them. What did we say? If a man uses all three rights of divorce that come with the marriage, unless the woman he divorced goes of her own will to another husband and the man she married also divorces her, he cannot marry the woman he divorced.

But if the man she married also divorces this woman, and the man who first divorced her seeks his wife's hand, and the woman returns to the husband who first divorced her of her own consent, there is no harm in their marrying. And this depends on a condition.

What is its condition? If they believe they can keep Allah's limits, there is no harm in their marrying again. That is the condition. If they believe they can keep Allah's limits. That is, if they decide not to return to the old discord, to respect human rights and law, to protect human honor, dignity and self-respect, and not to fall short in love toward each other, they are permitted to marry.

Otherwise, since marriages made for worldly gain and mutual interests have no future, and since such people will overstep Allah's limits, such a marriage is not permitted. What does he do? The woman has property. The man wants to deceive the woman again and take her property from her.

And he uses all kinds of crafty words on her. And the woman falls for it. Then she sees that her property has gone, bit by bit. Then he has left the woman in the lurch again. Or let us think of the reverse. The woman will treat her husband the same way. Knowing he has wealth and property, she will approach him with all kinds of tricks. And in the end, after using him for her own ends, she will leave him in the lurch. These are the situations that will overstep Allah's limits. Such marriages have no future. If such marriages are to be made, they are not permitted.

Moreover, behind this marriage there is torment, there is injustice. Allah does not love unjust people.

These things said here (?) are Allah's limits. That is, they are the limits of His laws that will protect people's honor and dignity and, so that they meet no hardship while living, strengthen family ties — the limits of His laws. Yes, the woman and the man must observe these very carefully. They must behave respectfully toward each other. They must. Respectfully. Who would want the woman they married out of love to be divorced by her husband, and this woman to go to another man, and when this woman is divorced from that other man too, the man she first married to take her back lovingly?

This weighs very heavily on a person. So what does this mean? Knowingly handing one's wife over to another man. And then taking back the wife he handed over. May Allah protect us.

Such a very grave situation this is. Allah Almighty making this grave situation so heavy for people, for people with religion and faith, is to protect the woman's chastity. It is Allah Almighty protecting her honor. Yes. Allah Almighty's laws are deterrent. This is a deterrent law. With His verses He (?) us how much He values people. Allah Almighty. So that their hearts are not hurt, He sets His laws, so that no one wrongs anyone, nor are insults made, so that they help in raising the children entrusted to them. So that those children are not wronged. So that those trusts grow up with kind compassion and mercy.

When hearths of compassion and mercy smoke in their hearts, then evil never comes forth from them. If one lives as his mind shows him, he suffers much regret, and they tumble into abysses they cannot see.

Since Allah who created us knows how we will be reformed, Allah addresses people's consciences and commands them to behave with more feeling. In this respect He teaches us what we do not know, gives us life and lights our paths. In this case, what happens? If He lights our path, we live with honor. We will have kept the dignity of being human. Otherwise, as our Lord says, they, He says, are like four-legged beasts roaming the earth, He says. From this state we are saved. We are saved from that four-legged state. Yes.

Why did we say Allah Almighty addresses consciences? Allah the Creator, so that we make ourselves witnesses to Allah, to the world of possession sent us. People who believe and have faith fear Allah. But people who do not believe fear the laws of states.

People who fear Allah, even where there are no laws, because they fear Allah in their conscience, put Allah's laws into practice. How beautiful. You cannot post a guard over every person. Yes, but people who fear the laws of states, in places where no one sees them, act in pursuit of the interest that their minds and selves show them. These are people who are unjust to their own selves. These are self-seeking people with hard hearts. Yes, so why does Allah Almighty address hearts, consciences? You cannot post a guard over every person. But the fear of Allah is a guard over every person. That faith and that obedience to Allah, that fear of his Lord, is the person's guard.

But those who do not fear their Lord, who do not observe His laws, commit every kind of evil where people cannot see them. And they commit injustice both against people and against their own selves.

The hearts of people who have faith, believe in Allah and trust in Him are soft and merciful. They are respectful toward the verses of Allah Almighty. Yes, since Allah does not intend injustice to the worlds, these people know that when they do wrong, Allah will one day ask us about what we did. On which day will He ask? On the Day of Resurrection, at the Supreme Court, He will ask us. What does He say in the verse? Every soul will taste death, and in the end your return is to Allah. So says Allah Almighty in the verse.

Here Allah's exaltedness becomes manifest, His greatness. Think of a state, the strongest and mightiest state on earth, one that hangs and cuts as it pleases, a state like that: can it rule over all its subjects? That state can only establish the validity of its laws over people through those people's own behavior among themselves, and they, those people, where they cannot see one another, commit every kind of evil they commit. But a person in the universe who has been honored with the light of Islam, mindful of Allah's commands and prohibitions, turned to piety and fearing his Lord — there is no need at all to post a guard over him.

This is the greatness of our Lord. By the Creator's command to the created, the created one's devotion and respect toward his Lord, his love and fear of Him, prevent him from doing evil. It prevents a person from being unjust, from being unjust to his own self.

They are respectful toward the verses of Allah Almighty. Since Allah does not intend injustice to the worlds, these people know that when they do wrong, Allah will one day, about what we did, ask us. Here Allah's exaltedness becomes manifest. He leaves His creatures alone with their free will. So that people find the truth within their own will. By their own will. Without exposing them to anyone's pressure, oppression or tyranny, within their own free thought, for people to find their own Creator He waits. That is how He commands.

So that people judge with justice on earth, Allah Almighty thus clearly makes His laws known to people in a way that grants them life. Since He sent people to a (?) world, in this (?) world Allah Almighty, how these people will behave, and how, if they behave, it will please their Creator, please their Creator, that is, please their Lord, He makes known to people with His verses. These are Allah's rulings for a people who understand. For those who understand: one day your return is to your Lord. Sir, the end of everything will surely be returned to Allah. And at last the Supreme Court will be set up.

On the Day of Resurrection the Hour will strike, and at last the Supreme Court will be set up. There, with no soul being wronged in any way, every soul will see the return of what it has earned. Those who believe and have faith in this, before they migrate from this world to the hereafter, act with that place in mind. These are Allah's rulings for a people who understand. Even if you showed people who do not believe all the verses of the Quran as miracles, they still would not believe. Because their natures, that is, their destinies, they have had written that way.