Women — Verse 23

4:23 · an-Nisa`

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Women 4:23

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Arabic English Morphology
حُرِّمَتْ ḥurrimat
Forbidden V
عَلَيْكُمْ ʿalaykum
to you Prep
أُمَّهَٰتُكُمْ ummahātukum
(are) your mothers Noun
وَبَنَاتُكُمْ wabanātukum
and your daughters Noun
وَأَخَوَٰتُكُمْ wa-akhawātukum
and your sisters Noun
وَعَمَّٰتُكُمْ waʿammātukum
and your father's sisters Noun
وَخَٰلَٰتُكُمْ wakhālātukum
and your mother's sisters Noun
وَبَنَاتُ wabanātu
and daughters Noun
ٱلْأَخِ l-akhi
(of) brothers Noun
وَبَنَاتُ wabanātu
and daughters Noun
ٱلْأُخْتِ l-ukh'ti
(of) sisters Noun
وَأُمَّهَٰتُكُمُ wa-ummahātukumu
and (the) mothers Noun
ٱلَّٰتِىٓ allātī
who Noun
أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ arḍaʿnakum
nursed you V
وَأَخَوَٰتُكُم wa-akhawātukum
and your sisters Noun
مِّنَ mina
from Prep
ٱلرَّضَٰعَةِ l-raḍāʿati
the nursing Noun
وَأُمَّهَٰتُ wa-ummahātu
and mothers Noun
نِسَآئِكُمْ nisāikum
(of) your wives Noun
وَرَبَٰٓئِبُكُمُ warabāibukumu
and your step daughters Noun
ٱلَّٰتِى allātī
who Noun
فِى fī
(are) in Prep
حُجُورِكُم ḥujūrikum
your guardianship Noun
مِّن min
of Prep
نِّسَآئِكُمُ nisāikumu
your women Noun
ٱلَّٰتِى allātī
whom Noun
دَخَلْتُم dakhaltum
you had relations V
بِهِنَّ bihinna
with them Noun
فَإِن fa-in
but if Prep
لَّمْ lam
not Prep
تَكُونُوا۟ takūnū
you had V
دَخَلْتُم dakhaltum
relations V
بِهِنَّ bihinna
with them Noun
فَلَا falā
then (there is) no Prep
جُنَاحَ junāḥa
sin Noun
عَلَيْكُمْ ʿalaykum
on you Prep
وَحَلَٰٓئِلُ waḥalāilu
And wives Noun
أَبْنَآئِكُمُ abnāikumu
(of) your sons Noun
ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna
those who Noun
مِنْ min
(are) from Prep
أَصْلَٰبِكُمْ aṣlābikum
your loins Noun
وَأَن wa-an
and that Prep
تَجْمَعُوا۟ tajmaʿū
you gather together V
بَيْنَ bayna
[between] Noun
ٱلْأُخْتَيْنِ l-ukh'tayni
two sisters Noun
إِلَّا illā
except Prep
مَا mā
what Noun
قَدْ qad
has Prep
سَلَفَ salafa
passed before V
إِنَّ inna
Indeed Prep
ٱللَّهَ l-laha
Allah Noun
كَانَ kāna
is V
غَفُورًا ghafūran
Oft-Forgiving Noun
رَّحِيمًا raḥīman
Most-Merciful Noun

You are forbidden to take as wives your mothers, daughters, sisters, paternal and maternal aunts, the daughters of brothers and daughters of sisters, your milk-mothers and milk-sisters, your wives’ mothers, the stepdaughters in your care- those born of women with whom you have consummated marriage, if you have not consummated the marriage, then you will not be blamed- wives of your begotten sons, two sisters simultaneously- with the exception of what is past: God is most forgiving and merciful

— Abdel Haleem

Arabic Text

حُرِّمَتۡ عَلَیۡكُمۡ أُمَّهَـٰتُكُمۡ وَبَنَاتُكُمۡ وَأَخَوَ ٰتُكُمۡ وَعَمَّـٰتُكُمۡ وَخَـٰلَـٰتُكُمۡ وَبَنَاتُ ٱلۡأَخِ وَبَنَاتُ ٱلۡأُخۡتِ وَأُمَّهَـٰتُكُمُ ٱلَّـٰتِیۤ أَرۡضَعۡنَكُمۡ وَأَخَوَ ٰتُكُم مِّنَ ٱلرَّضَـٰعَةِ وَأُمَّهَـٰتُ نِسَاۤىِٕكُمۡ وَرَبَـٰۤىِٕبُكُمُ ٱلَّـٰتِی فِی حُجُورِكُم مِّن نِّسَاۤىِٕكُمُ ٱلَّـٰتِی دَخَلۡتُم بِهِنَّ فَإِن لَّمۡ تَكُونُوا۟ دَخَلۡتُم بِهِنَّ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَیۡكُمۡ وَحَلَـٰۤىِٕلُ أَبۡنَاۤىِٕكُمُ ٱلَّذِینَ مِنۡ أَصۡلَـٰبِكُمۡ وَأَن تَجۡمَعُوا۟ بَیۡنَ ٱلۡأُخۡتَیۡنِ إِلَّا مَا قَدۡ سَلَفَۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ غَفُورࣰا رَّحِیمࣰا ۝٢٣

ḥurrimat ʿalaykum ummahātukum wabanātukum wa-akhawātukum waʿammātukum wakhālātukum wabanātu l-akhi wabanātu l-ukh'ti wa-ummahātukumu allātī arḍaʿnakum wa-akhawātukum mina l-raḍāʿati wa-ummahātu nisāikum warabāibukumu allātī fī ḥujūrikum min nisāikumu allātī dakhaltum bihinna fa-in lam takūnū dakhaltum bihinna falā junāḥa ʿalaykum waḥalāilu abnāikumu alladhīna min aṣlābikum wa-an tajmaʿū bayna l-ukh'tayni illā mā qad salafa inna l-laha kāna ghafūran raḥīma

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