Recall that you said to the one who was blessed by God, and blessed by you, “Keep your wife and reverence God,” and you hid inside yourself what God wished to proclaim. Thus, you feared the people, when you were supposed to fear only God. When Zeid was completely through with his wife, we had you marry her, in order to establish the precedent that a man can marry the divorced wife of his adopted son. God’s commands shall be done.
وَإِذ تَقولُ لِلَّذى أَنعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيهِ وَأَنعَمتَ عَلَيهِ أَمسِك عَلَيكَ زَوجَكَ وَاتَّقِ اللَّهَ وَتُخفى فى نَفسِكَ مَا اللَّهُ مُبديهِ وَتَخشَى النّاسَ وَاللَّهُ أَحَقُّ أَن تَخشىٰهُ فَلَمّا قَضىٰ زَيدٌ مِنها وَطَرًا زَوَّجنٰكَها لِكَى لا يَكونَ عَلَى المُؤمِنينَ حَرَجٌ فى أَزوٰجِ أَدعِيائِهِم إِذا قَضَوا مِنهُنَّ وَطَرًا وَكانَ أَمرُ اللَّهِ مَفعولًا
wa iz taqoolu lillazeee an’amal laahu ‘alaihi wa an’amta ‘alaihi amsik ‘alaika zawjaka wattaqil laaha wa tukhfee fee nafsika mal laahu mubdeehi wa takhshan naasa wallaahu ahaqqu an takhshaah; falammaa qadaa Zaidum minhaa wataran zawwajnaa kahaa likay laa yakoona ‘alal mu’mineena harajun feee azwaaji ad’iyaaa’ihim izaa qadaw minhunna wataraa; wa kaana amrul laahi maf’oolaa