Qur'an 4:23

القرآن 4:23

Qur'an 4:23 (sura An-Nisa, verse 23).

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حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَّهَـٰتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُكُمْ وَأَخَوَٰتُكُمْ وَعَمَّـٰتُكُمْ وَخَـٰلَـٰتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُ ٱلْأَخِ وَبَنَاتُ ٱلْأُخْتِ وَأُمَّهَـٰتُكُمُ ٱلَّـٰتِىٓ أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ وَأَخَوَٰتُكُم مِّنَ ٱلرَّضَـٰعَةِ وَأُمَّهَـٰتُ نِسَآئِكُمْ وَرَبَـٰٓئِبُكُمُ ٱلَّـٰتِى فِى حُجُورِكُم مِّن نِّسَآئِكُمُ ٱلَّـٰتِى دَخَلْتُم بِهِنَّ فَإِن لَّمْ تَكُونُوا۟ دَخَلْتُم بِهِنَّ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَحَلَـٰٓئِلُ أَبْنَآئِكُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِنْ أَصْلَـٰبِكُمْ وَأَن تَجْمَعُوا۟ بَيْنَ ٱلْأُخْتَيْنِ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ غَفُورًا رَّحِيمًا

Text: Tanzil Project,tanzil.net · verbatim and unchanged · previous verse · next verse

Forbidden unto you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your father's sisters, and your mother's sisters, and your brother's daughters and your sister's daughters, and your foster-mothers, and your foster-sisters, and your mothers-in-law, and your step-daughters who are under your protection (born) of your women unto whom ye have gone in - but if ye have not gone in unto them, then it is no sin for you (to marry their daughters) - and the wives of your sons who (spring) from your own loins. And (it is forbidden unto you) that ye should have two sisters together, except what hath already happened (of that nature) in the past. Lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.— Marmaduke Pickthall

Summary

Verse 23 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

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Its place: verse 23 of 176 verses in the surah. The text is kept in the frozen Tanzil mushaf and is not retyped here.

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Jāhilī Marriage Forms· The social condition of the Arabs before Islam
Part of
Sura 4: An-Nisa

Sources

  1. Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
  2. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
  • Tanzil Project, public-domain translations
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