In this verse two other unjust and disagreeable customs of the Pagan Era have been condemned and declared unlawful:

1- It addresses the believers that it is unlawful to inherit the properties of women against their will and consent.

2- The second ugly and unbecoming custom of the Arab was that, they kept a woman under pressure by various means, in order to force them to leave and grant their dower and to take a divorce for nothing: ``Do not force women to take back a part of the dower that you have given them.'' This commandment has an exception for excluding those women who are guilty of a manifest indecency such as adultary.

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      (Some of the commentators have understood the above verse in other way: ``The phrase, `don't inherit the women against their will' has nothing to do with their property, they say; and the purpose is their very self. The cause for the revelation they say; was that among many nations including Arabs in the Pagan Era, a step-son, or brother took possession of a man's widow along with his goods and chattels. This shameful custom of inheriting women against their will was condemned and forbidden in Islam.'' TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.)