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O Prophet! Say to your wives: - who were nine, and they had asked him for some of the adornments of this world, which he did not possess - 'If you desire the life of this world and its adornment, come [now], I will provide for you, in other words, the compensation [to be provided] for divorce, and release you in a gracious manner, I will divorce you and will not coerce [you to stay].