The Women
4. An-Nisā’
النساء
Page #81
4:23
حُرِّمَتْ
عَلَيْكُمْ
أُمَّهَاتُكُمْ
وَبَنَاتُكُمْ
وَأَخَوَاتُكُمْ
وَعَمَّاتُكُمْ
وَخَالَاتُكُمْ
وَبَنَاتُ
الْأَخِ
وَبَنَاتُ
الْأُخْتِ
وَأُمَّهَاتُكُمُ
اللَّاتِي
أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ
وَأَخَوَاتُكُم
مِّنَ
الرَّضَاعَةِ
وَأُمَّهَاتُ
نِسَائِكُمْ
وَرَبَائِبُكُمُ
اللَّاتِي
فِي
حُجُورِكُم
مِّن
نِّسَائِكُمُ
اللَّاتِي
دَخَلْتُم
بِهِنَّ
فَإِن
لَّمْ
تَكُونُوا
دَخَلْتُم
بِهِنَّ
فَلَا
جُنَاحَ
عَلَيْكُمْ
وَحَلَائِلُ
أَبْنَائِكُمُ
الَّذِينَ
مِنْ
أَصْلَابِكُمْ
وَأَن
تَجْمَعُوا
بَيْنَ
الْأُخْتَيْنِ
إِلَّا
مَا
قَدْ
سَلَفَ
إِنَّ
اللَّهَ
كَانَ
غَفُورًا
رَّحِيمًا
ḥurrimat ʿalaykum ʾummahātukum wa-banātukum wa-ʾakhawātukum wa-ʿammātukum wa-khālātukum wa-banātu l-ʾakhi wa-banātu l-ʾukhti wa-ʾummahātukumu llātī ʾarḍaʿnakum wa-ʾakhawātukum mina r-raḍāʿati wa-ʾummahātu nisāʾikum wa-rabāʾibukumu llātī fī ḥujūrikum min nisāʾikumu llātī dakhaltum bihinna fa-ʾin lam takūnū dakhaltum bihinna fa-lā junāḥa ʿalaykum wa-ḥalāʾilu ʾabnāʾikumu lladhīna min ʾaṣlābikum wa-ʾan tajmaʿū bayna l-ʾukhtayni ʾillā mā qad salafa ʾinna llāha kāna ghafūran raḥīman
Forbidden to you are your mothers, your daughters and your sisters, your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts, your brother’s daughters and your sister’s daughters, your [foster-]mothers who have suckled you and your sisters through fosterage, your wives’ mothers, and your stepdaughters who are under your care [born] of the wives whom you have gone into—but if you have not gone into them there is no sin upon you—and the wives of your sons who are from your own loins, and that you should marry two sisters at one time—excluding what is already past; indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful—
— Ali Quli Qarai
Prohibited to you (For marriage) are:- Your mothers, daughters, sisters; father's sisters, Mother's sisters; brother's daughters, sister's daughters; foster-mothers (Who gave you suck), foster-sisters; your wives' mothers; your step-daughters under your guardianship, born of your wives to whom ye have gone in,- no prohibition if ye have not gone in;- (Those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time, except for what is past; for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful;-
