Surah 4. An-Nisaa, Ayah 22
| وَلَا تَنْكِحُوا مَا نَكَحَ آبَاؤُكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ ۚ إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَاحِشَةً وَمَقْتًا وَسَاءَ سَبِيلًا |
| Transliteration | : | wa- laa tankih.o maa nakah.a 'aabaa' -kum min an- nisaa' 'illaa maa qad salafa 'inna -hu kaana faah.ishah wa- maqt(an) wa- saa'a sabel(an) |
| Pickthall | : | And marry not those women whom your fathers married, except what hath already happened (of that nature) in the past. Lo! it was ever lewdness and abomination, and an evil way. |
| Asad | : | AND DO NOT marry women whom your fathers have previously married - although what is past is past:24 this, verily, is a shameful deed, and a hateful thing, and an evil way. |
| Malik | : | Do not marry those women whom your fathers had married, - except what happened prior to this commandment. - Surely it was shocking, disgusting, and an evil practice. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And marry not women whom your fathers married except what is past: it was shameful and odious an abominable custom indeed. 530 |
Note - 24Lit., "except what has come to pass earlier" - i.e.,
forgiven shall be he who did it before the promulgation
of this Qur'anic ordinance or (in the case of a
conversion in later times) before one's acceptance of
Islam.
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Note - 530See above: iv. 19, n. 527.
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