ONE AYAT A DAY
وَلِلْمُطَلَّقٰتِ مَتَاعٌ ۢبِالْمَعْرُوْفِۗ حَقًّا عَلَى الْمُتَّقِيْنَ
Wa lil-muṭallaqāti matā‘um bil-ma‘rūf(i), ḥaqqan ‘alal-muttaqīn(a).
And for divorced women is a provision according to what is acceptable - a duty upon the righteous.
Ayah (2:240) was abrogatedThe majority of the scholars said that this Ayah (2:240) was abrogated by the Ayah (2:234), what Allah said:يَتَرَبَّصْنَ بِأَنفُسِهِنَّ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرًا(...they (the wives) shall wait (as regards their marriage) for four months and ten days.) (2:234)For instance, Al-Bukhari reported that Ibn Az-Zubayr said: I said to `Uthman bin `Affan:وَالَّذِينَ يُتَوَفَّوْنَ مِنكُمْ وَيَذَرُونَ أَزْوَجًا(And those of you who die and leave wives behind them) was abrogated by the other Ayah (2:234). Therefore, why did you collect it (meaning, in the Qur'an)" He said, "O my nephew! I shall not change any part of the Qur'an from its place."The question that Ibn Az-Zubayr asked `Uthman means: `If the ruling of the Ayah (2:240) was abrogated to four months (the `Iddah of the widow, and refer to 2:234), then what is the wisdom behind including it in the Qur'an, although its ruling has been abrogated If the Ayah (2:240) remains (in the Qur'an) after the Ayah that abrogated it (2:234), this might imply that its ruling is still valid.' `Uthman, the Leader of the faithful, answered him by stating that this is a matter of the revelation, which mentioned these Ayat in this order. `Therefore, I shall leave the Ayah where I found it in the Qur'an.'Ibn Abu Hatim reported that Ibn `Abbas said about what Allah said:وَالَّذِينَ يُتَوَفَّوْنَ مِنكُمْ وَيَذَرُونَ أَزْوَجً…