Surah 33. Al-Ahzab, Ayah 30
| يَا نِسَاءَ النَّبِيِّ مَنْ يَأْتِ مِنْكُنَّ بِفَاحِشَةٍ مُبَيِّنَةٍ يُضَاعَفْ لَهَا الْعَذَابُ ضِعْفَيْنِ ۚ وَكَانَ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرًا |
| Transliteration | : | yaa nisaa' an- nabey man ya'ti min -kunna bi- faah.ishah mubayyinah yud.aacif la- -haa al- cadhaab d.icfain wa- kaana dhaalika calaa 'allaah yaser(an) |
| Pickthall | : | O ye wives of the Prophet! Whosoever of you committeth manifest lewdness, the punishment for her will be doubled, and that is easy for Allah. |
| Asad | : | O wives of the Prophet! If any of you were to become guilty of manifestly immoral con luct,33 double [that of other sinners] would be her suffering [in the hereafter]: for that is indeed easy for God. |
| Malik | : | O wives of the Prophet! If any of you were guilty of open indecency, her punishment will be increased to double and this is easy for Allah. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | O Consorts of the Prophet! if any of you were guilty of evident unseemly conduct the Punishment would be doubled to her and that is easy for Allah. 3708 3709 |
Note - 33Regarding this connotation of the term fahishah, see
surah {4}, note [14]. According to Zamakhshari, in his
commentary on the present verse, this term comprises all
that may be described as a "gross sin" (kabirah).
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Note - 3708"Evident unseemly conduct" i.e., proved misconduct, as
opposed to false slanders from enemies. Such slanders
were of no account, but if any of them had behaved in an
unseemly manner, it would have been a worse offence than
in the case of ordinary women, on account of their
special position. Of course none of them were in the
least guilty.
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Note - 3709Cf. xxxiii. 19 and n. 3692. The punishment in this life
for a married woman's unchastity is very severe: for
fornication, public flogging with a hundred stripes,
under xxiv. 2; or for lewdness (see iv. 15) imprisonment;
or stoning to death for adultery, according to certain
precedents established in Canon Law. But here the
question is not about this kind of punishment or this
kind of offence. Even minor indiscretions, in the case of
women who were patterns of decorum, would have been
reprehensible; and the punishment in the Hereafter is on
a higher plane, which we can scarcely understand.
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"Evident unseemly conduct" i.e., proved misconduct, as opposed to false slanders from enemies. Such slanders were of no account, but if any of them had behaved in an unseemly manner, it would have been a worse offence than in the case of ordinary women, on account of their special position. Of course none of them were in the least guilty. |
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Cf. xxxiii. 19 and n. 3692. The punishment in this life for a married woman's unchastity is very severe: for fornication, public flogging with a hundred stripes, under xxiv. 2; or for lewdness (see iv. 15) imprisonment; or stoning to death for adultery, according to certain precedents established in Canon Law. But here the question is not about this kind of punishment or this kind of offence. Even minor indiscretions, in the case of women who were patterns of decorum, would have been reprehensible; and the punishment in the Hereafter is on a higher plane, which we can scarcely understand. |
