\n So as for the Polytheists of the Arabs and others...

\n So as for the Polytheists of the Arabs and others, so they would be upon their marriages up to the expiry of the waiting period.

So if the woman becomes a Muslim, then the man becomes a Muslim before the expiry of her term, so she is his wife, but if he does not become a Muslim except after the expiry of the term, so she has been irrevocably divorced from him, and there is no way for him to her; and similar to that is the entirety of the ones for whom there is no responsibility, nor is it befitting for the Muslim man that he marries a Jewish woman or a Christian woman when he can find a Muslim woman, whether she is free or a slave girl\u2019.