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وَلَا تَنكِحُوا۟ مَا نَكَحَ ءَابَآؤُكُم مِّنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فَـٰحِشَةً وَمَقْتًا وَسَآءَ سَبِيلًا
Text: Tanzil Project,tanzil.net · verbatim and unchanged · previous verse · next verse
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.— Marmaduke Pickthall
Summary
Verse 22 of Surat an-Nisa, a Medinan surah. Scholars connect its revelation to the four forms of marriage in the Jahiliyya, and the social condition of the Arabs before Islam. 1 2
Place in the museum
Its place: verse 22 of 176 verses in the surah. The text is kept in the frozen Tanzil mushaf and is not retyped here.
Connections
- Revealed about
- Jāhilī Marriage Forms· The social condition of the Arabs before Islam
- Part of
- Sura 4: An-Nisa
Sources
- Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Tanzil Project, public-domain translations
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Qur'an 4:22”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/quran-4-22/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.