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Surah 37. As-Saffat, Ayah 22

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ٱحْشُرُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ وَأَزْوَٰجَهُمْ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْبُدُونَ
O h shuroo alla th eena th alamoo waazw a jahum wam a k a noo yaAAbudoon a
[And God will thus command:] "Assemble all those who were bent on evildoing, together with others of their ilk10 and [with] all that they were wont to worship
  - Mohammad Asad

According to almost all of the earliest authorities - including 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, 'Abd Allah ibn Abbas, Qatadah, Mujahid, As Suddi, Said ibn Jubayr, Al-Hassan al-Basri, etc., - the expression azwaj denotes here "people resembling one another [in their dispositions]", or "people of the same kind" or "of the same ilk".

It will be commanded: "Gather all the wrongdoers, their spouses and those whom they used to worship
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
'Allah will say to the angels,' 'Gather 'all' the wrongdoers along with their peers, and whatever they used to worship
  - Mustafa Khattab
(And it is said unto the angels): Assemble those who did wrong, together with their wives and what they used to worship
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
-Bring ye up" it shall be said "The wrongdoers and their wives and the things they worshipped 4048
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

That is, if their wives were also wrong-doers. They are separately mentioned, because the Arabic phrase for "wrong-doers" is of the masculine gender. All the associates in wrong-doing will be marshalled together. There will be personal responsibility: neither husband nor wife can lay the blame on the other.

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