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| | | An-Nisa | Pre Ayat ← 3 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 1. Duties of Guardians to Orphan Wards | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:And if you be apprehensive that you will not be able to do justice to the orphans, you may marry two or three or four women whom you choose. But if you apprehend that you might not be able to do justice to them, then many only one wife, or marry those women who have fallen in your possession. This will be the better course to avoid injustice. |
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| | | An-Nisa | Pre Ayat ← 24 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 4. What Women may be taken in Marriage | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:And forbidden to you are the wedded wives of other people except those who have fallen in your hands (as prisoners of war ): this is the Law of Allah that has been prescribed for you. With the exception of the above, it has been made lawful for you to seek in marriage with your wealth any other women provided that you keep them in wedlock and not in licentiousness. Then you should pay them their dowries as an obligation for the enjoyment of conjugal relations with them. However, there is no harm if a compromise is made in the dower by mutual consent after an agreement about it; Allah is All-Knowing, All Wise. |
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| | | An-Nisa | Pre Ayat ← 25 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 4. What Women may be taken in Marriage | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Whoever cannot afford to marry free Muslim women, should marry one of the Muslim slave-girls in your possession; Allah has full knowledge of your Faith. You all belong to one and the same community; therefore, you may marry them with the permission of their guardians and give them their fair dowries so that they may live a decent life in wedlock and not in licentiousness nor may have secret illicit relations. Then if they are guilty of indecency, after they have been fortified by wedlock, they shall be given half the punishment prescribed for free women. This concession has been made for those of you who might apprehend a moral lapse without marriage, but it is better for you to practice self-restraint, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. |
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| | | An-Nisa | Pre Ayat ← 36 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 6. Disagreement between Husband and Wife | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:And all of you should serve God and associate none with Him; and show kindness and affection to your parents, and be kind to near relatives, and to orphans, and to the needy; and be considerate to your neighbors kinsmen and strangers and to the companions at your side and to the wayfarer and to the slaves in your possession. Believe it that Allah does not like such persons as are self~conceited |
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| | | An-Nahal | Pre Ayat ← 71 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 10. Recipient of Revelation | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Consider also this: Allah has favored some of you above others with provisions, but those who have been favored with this, do not give away their provisions to their slaves so that both may become equal in the provision. What! do they then deny to acknowledge Allahs favor? |
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| | | Al-Mominoon | Pre Ayat ← 6 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 1. Success of the Faithful | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:except with regard to their wives and those women who are legally in their possession, for in that case they shall not be blame-worthy, |
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| | | An-Noor | Pre Ayat ← 31 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 4. Preventive Measures | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:O Prophet, enjoin the Believing men to restrain their gaze and guard their private parts. and not to display their adornment except that which is displayed of itself, and to draw their veils over their bosoms and not to display their adornment except before their husbands, their fathers, the fathers of their husbands, their sons and the sons of their husbands (from other wives), their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their female associates and those in their possession and male attendants incapable of sex desire and those boys who have not yet attained knowledge of sex matters concerning women; also forbid them to stamp their feet on the ground lest their hidden ornaments should be displayed. O Believers, turn all together towards Allah: it is expected that you will attain true success. |
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| | | An-Noor | Pre Ayat ← 33 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 4. Preventive Measures | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:And those, who cannot find a match, should observe continence till Allah provides them with means out of His bounty And if those who are in your possession, ask for a deed of emancipation, execute the deed of emancipation with them, provided that you find some good in them; and give them something out of the means Allah has given you. And do not force your slave-girls into prostitution for your own worldly gains when they themselves want to keep chaste; and if anyone forces them into it, after such a compulsion Allah will be forgiving and merciful for them. |
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| | | An-Noor | Pre Ayat ← 58 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 8. Respect for Privacy | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:O Believers, your slaves and those of your children, who have not yet become sex conscious, must ask your permission before coming in to see you on three occasions: before the Fajr Prayer and at noon when you put off your clothes and after the `Isha' Prayer. These are your three times of privacy. There is no sin for you or for them if they come without permission at other times than these, for you have to visit one another over and over again. In this way Allah makes His Commandments clear to you for He is All-Knowing, All-Wise. |
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| | | Ar-Rum | Pre Ayat ← 28 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 4. Appeal to Human Nature | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:He draws out a comparison for you from your own selves: Are there among the slaves that you possess any such slaves also who may be sharing with you equally the wealth that We have given you, and you fear them as you fear one another among yourselves? Thus do We present the Revelations clearly for those who use their common sense. |
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| | | Al-Ahzab | Pre Ayat ← 50 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 6. Prophets Marriages | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:O Prophet, We have made lawful to you those of your wives, whose dowers you have paid, and those women who come into your possession out of the slave girls granted by Allah, and the daughters of your paternal uncles and aunts, and of your maternal uncles and aunts, who have migrated with you, and the believing woman who gives herself to the Prophet if the Prophet may desire to marry her. This privilege is for you only, not for the other believers. We know what restrictions We have imposed on the other believers concerning their wives and slave girls. (You have been made an exception) so that there may be no hindrance to you; and Allah is All Forgiving, All Merciful. |
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| | | Al-Ahzab | Pre Ayat ← 52 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 6. Prophets Marriages | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:No other women are lawful to you after this, nor are you allowed to have other wives instead of them, even if their beauty may be very pleasing to you. You may, however, have slave-girls. Allah is Watchful over everything. |
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| | | Al-Ahzab | Pre Ayat ← 55 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 7. Rules of Conduct in Domestic Relations | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:There is no blame on the wives of the Prophet that they are visited in their houses by their fathers, their sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their familiar women and their slaves. (O women,) you should avoid the disobedience of Allah, for Allah observes everything. |
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| | | Al-Maarij | Pre Ayat ← 30 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 1. Certainty of the Punishment | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Except with regard to their wives and those women who are legally in their possession, for in their case they are not blameworthy, |