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wa-ʾin ʾaradtumu stibdāla zawjin makāna zawjin wa-ʾātaytum ʾiḥdāhunna qinṭāran fa-lā taʾkhudhū minhu shayʾan ʾa-taʾkhudhūnahū buhtānan wa-ʾithman mubīnan
If you desire to take a wife in place of another, and you have given one of them a quintal [of gold], do not take anything away from it. Would you take it by way of calumny and flagrant sin?!
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah An-Nisa',Verse 20
20. "And if you intend to take one wife in place of another and you have given one of them a considerable property then do not take anything of it. Would you take it by slandering (her) and with manifest wrong? "
At the Age of Ignorance, when some men desired to marry another wife, he would denigrate his first wife so that she had to remit her dower in order that the husband might divorce her. After that, the husband could marry another woman with the same dower that he had taken back. This verse blames the custom of the pagans of that time.
Explanations
1. Remarriage is admissible from the point of Islam.
2. Divorce is in the authority of man.
3. Islam is the defender of the rights of women, and prohibits it if the second marriage might waste the rights of the first wife.
4. Wives have possession and their whole wealth must be given to them completely.
5. One of the worst sorts of transgression is taking the property of others by justifying, denigrating and defaming them.