وَلَا تَكُونُوا۟ كَٱلَّتِى نَقَضَتْ غَزْلَهَا مِنۢ بَعْدِ قُوَّةٍ أَنكَـٰثًا تَتَّخِذُونَ أَيْمَـٰنَكُمْ دَخَلًۢا بَيْنَكُمْ أَن تَكُونَ أُمَّةٌ هِىَ أَرْبَىٰ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ ۚ إِنَّمَا يَبْلُوكُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِهِۦ ۚ وَلَيُبَيِّنَنَّ لَكُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ مَا كُنتُمْ فِيهِ تَخْتَلِفُونَ
Wa laa takoonoo kallatee naqadat ghazlahaa mim ba'di quwwatin ankaasaa; tattakhizoona aimaanakum dakhlalam bainakum an takoona ummatun hiya arbaa min ummah; innnamaa yablookumul laahu bih; wa la yubaiyinanna lakum yawmal Qiyaamati maa kuntum fee takhtalifoon
Bir ümmetin diğerinden daha çok olmasından ötürü, aranızdaki yeminleri bozarak, ipliğini iyice eğirip katladıktan sonra bozan kadın gibi olmayın. Allah onunla sizi dener. And olsun ki, ayrılığa düştüğünüz şeyleri size kıyamet günü açıklar.
Do not be like the woman who unraveled her yarn into loose strands after she had spun it strong — turning your oaths into a means of deceit among yourselves because one community is larger than another. God is only testing you through this, and on the day of resurrection he will make clear to you what you used to differ about.
Naqaḍat, the verb for what she does to her yarn, is the same verb applied to the breaking of a covenant, so the picture and the offence it illustrates share a word: a twist pulled back into loose fibre. The motive named is arithmetic — an oath abandoned because the other side turned out to be the larger party. Spinning takes a day and undoing takes a moment, and the image rests on that asymmetry.