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Surah An-Nisa Verse 23

Quran 4:23 · The Women · Medinan · Juz 4

4:23

Arabic

حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ اُمَّهٰتُكُمْ وَبَنٰتُكُمْ وَاَخَوٰتُكُمْ وَعَمّٰتُكُمْ وَخٰلٰتُكُمْ وَبَنٰتُ الْاَخِ وَبَنٰتُ الْاُخْتِ وَاُمَّهٰتُكُمُ الّٰتِيْٓ اَرْضَعْنَكُمْ وَاَخَوٰتُكُمْ مِّنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ وَاُمَّهٰتُ نِسَاۤىِٕكُمْ وَرَبَاۤىِٕبُكُمُ الّٰتِيْ فِيْ حُجُوْرِكُمْ مِّنْ نِّسَاۤىِٕكُمُ الّٰتِيْ دَخَلْتُمْ بِهِنَّۖ فَاِنْ لَّمْ تَكُوْنُوْا دَخَلْتُمْ بِهِنَّ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ ۖ وَحَلَاۤىِٕلُ اَبْنَاۤىِٕكُمُ الَّذِيْنَ مِنْ اَصْلَابِكُمْۙ وَاَنْ تَجْمَعُوْا بَيْنَ الْاُخْتَيْنِ اِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ ۗ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ كَانَ غَفُوْرًا رَّحِيْمًا ۝٢٣

Transliteration

Ḥurrimat ‘alaikum ummahātukum wa banātukum wa akhowātukum wa ‘ammātukum wa khōlātukum wa banātul-akhi wa banātul-ukhti wa ummahātukumul-lātī arḍo‘nakum wa akhowātukum minar-roḍō‘ati wa ummahātu nisā-ikum wa robā-ibukumul-lātī fī ḥujūrikum min nisā-ikumul-lātī dakholtum bihinn, fa illam takūnū dakholtum bihinna falā junāḥa ‘alaikum, wa ḥalā-ilu abnā-ikumul-lażīna min aṣlābikum, wa an tajma‘ū bainal-ukhtaini illā mā qod salaf, innallāha kāna ghofūror roḥīmā

Meaning

Forbidden for you are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your paternal aunts, your maternal aunts, your brother’s daughters, your sister’s daughters, your foster-mothers who nursed you, your sisters through nursing, your wives’ mothers, and your stepdaughters in your guardianship—born of wives you have gone into—but if you have not gone into them, there is no blame on you. And the wives of your genetic sons, and marrying two sisters simultaneously. Except what is past. Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Surah An-Nisa verse 23 (Quran 4:23) is verse 23 of the 176 verses of Surah An-Nisa (The Women), a Medinan surah that is number 4 in the Quran, and it is part of juz 4.

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Arabic text: Ministry of Religious Affairs of Indonesia (Kemenag RI). Transliteration: Aplikita. English translation by Talal Itani, ClearQuran.com (CC BY-ND 4.0).