And when you say-O Prophet-to the one whom Allah favored upon him with Islam-and he is Zaid bin Harithah whom the Prophet peace and blessings of Allah be upon him freed and adopted-and you favored upon him with the freeing: "Keep your wife Zainab bint Jahsh and do not divorce her, and fear Allah O Zaid," and you hide-O Muhammad-in yourself what Allah revealed by it to you of Zaid's divorce for his wife and your marriage from her, while Allah the Exalted is the One manifesting what you hid, and you fear the hypocrites that they say: "Muhammad married the divorcee of his adoptee," while Allah the Exalted is more entitled that you fear Him, then when Zaid fulfilled from her his need, and divorced her, and her waiting period expired, We married you to her; so that it be an example in the nullification of the custom of prohibition of marriage with the wife of the adoptee after her divorce, and there be not upon the believers a sin and a burden in that they marry from the wives of those whom they used to adopt them after their divorce if they fulfilled from them their need. And the command of Allah was performed no hindrance for it nor any preventer. And the custom of adoption used to be in the Jahiliyyah, then it was nullified by His word the Exalted: {Call them to their fathers (33:5)}.