* According to the eminent exegetes like Imam al-Qurtubi, al-Jami‘ li-Ahkam al-Qur’an (16:111), Ibn Kathir, Tafsir al-Qur’an al-‘Azim (4:134), and al-Shawkani, Tafsir Fath al-Qadir (4:563) the words azwaju-kum in this Verse also imply ‘intimate companions’ in addition to ‘wives’. On the basis of this authority, the word azwaj has been translated as ‘intimate companions’ instead of ‘wives’.