You will not be blamed for not paying the dower money if you divorce women when you have not yet consummated the marriage or fixed a dower money upon them, but make fair provision for them, the affluent according to his means and the straitened according to his means this is binding on righteous men.

And give the women (on marriage) their dower as a free gift but if they, of their own good pleasure, remit any part of it to you, Take it and enjoy it with right good cheer.

If you desire to replace one wife with another, do not take any part of her dower back even if you have given her a treasure. Would you take it by slandering her and with manifest sinfulness?

But if ye decide to take one wife in place of another, even if ye had given the latter a whole treasure for dower, Take not the least bit of it back Would ye take it by slander and manifest wrong?

And if any of your wives deserts you to the Unbelievers, and ye have an accession (by the coming over of a woman from the other side), then pay to those whose wives have deserted the equivalent of what they had spent (on their dower). And fear Allah, in Whom ye believe.

There is no blame on you if ye divorce women before consummation or the fixation of their dower but bestow on them (A suitable gift), the wealthy according to his means, and the poor according to his means A gift of a reasonable amount is due from those who wish to do the right thing.

It is no sin if you divorce your wives while you have not yet touched them or fixed any dower for them. In such a case, pay them something anyhow. A rich man should pay fairly according to his means and a poor man according to his resources, for this is an obligation on the righteous people.