repent speedily; unto them will God be turned:  for God is knowing and wise.  But no repentance shall be accepted from those who do evil until the time when death presenteth itself unto one of them, and he saith, Verily, I repent now; nor unto those who die unbelievers:  for them have we prepared a grievous punishment.  O true believers, it is not lawful for you to be heirs of women against their will, nor to hinder them from marrying others, that ye may take away part of what ye have given them in dowry; unless they have been guilty of a manifest crime:  but converse kindly with them.  And if ye hate them, it may happen that ye may hate a thing wherein God hath placed much good.  If ye be desirous to exchange a wife for another wife, and ye have already given one of them a talent; take not away anything therefrom:  will ye take it by slandering her, and doing her manifest injustice?  And how can ye take it, since the one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have received from you a firm covenant?  Marry not women whom your fathers have had to wife (except what is already past):  for this is uncleanness, and an abomination, and an evil way.  Ye are forbidden to marry your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your aunts both on the father’s and on the mother’s side, and your brother’s daughters, and your sister’s daughters, and your mothers who have given you suck, and your foster-sisters, and your wives’ mothers, and your daughters-in-law which are under your tuition, born of your wives unto whom ye have gone in (but if ye have not gone in unto them, it shall be no sin in you to marry them), and the wives of your sons who proceed out of your loins; and ye are also forbidden to take to wife two sisters; except what is already past:  for God is gracious and merciful.  Ye are also forbidden to take to wife free women who are married, except those women whom your right hands shall possess as slaves.[66] This is ordained you from God.  Whatever is beside this, is allowed you; that ye may with your substance provide wives for yourselves, acting that which is right, and avoiding whoredom.  And for the advantage which ye receive from them, give them their reward, according to what is ordained:  but it shall be no crime in you to make any other agreement among yourselves, after the ordinance shall be complied with; for God is knowing and wise.  Whoso among you hath not means sufficient that he may marry free women, who are believers, let him marry with such of your maid-servants whom your right hands possess, as are true believers; for God well knoweth your faith.  Ye are the one from the other; therefore marry them with the consent of their masters; and give them their dower according to justice; such as are modest, not guilty of whoredom, nor entertaining lovers.  And when they are married, if they be guilty of adultery, they shall suffer half the punishment which is appointed for the free women.[67] This is allowed unto him among you, who feareth to sin by marrying free women; but