Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus , an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran.
This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the fifteenth verse of
chapter 4 (sūrat l-nisāa ).
Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.
Chapter (1) sūrat l-fātiḥah (The Opening) Chapter (2) sūrat l-baqarah (The Cow) Chapter (3) sūrat āl ʿim'rān (The Family of Imrān) Chapter (4) sūrat l-nisāa (The Women) Chapter (5) sūrat l-māidah (The Table spread with Food) Chapter (6) sūrat l-anʿām (The Cattle) Chapter (7) sūrat l-aʿrāf (The Heights) Chapter (8) sūrat l-anfāl (The Spoils of War) Chapter (9) sūrat l-tawbah (The Repentance) Chapter (10) sūrat yūnus (Jonah) Chapter (11) sūrat hūd (Hud) Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph) Chapter (13) sūrat l-raʿd (The Thunder) Chapter (14) sūrat ib'rāhīm (Abraham) Chapter (15) sūrat l-ḥij'r (The Rocky Tract) Chapter (16) sūrat l-naḥl (The Bees) Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey) Chapter (18) sūrat l-kahf (The Cave) Chapter (19) sūrat maryam (Mary) Chapter (20) sūrat ṭā hā Chapter (21) sūrat l-anbiyāa (The Prophets) Chapter (22) sūrat l-ḥaj (The Pilgrimage) Chapter (23) sūrat l-mu'minūn (The Believers) Chapter (24) sūrat l-nūr (The Light) Chapter (25) sūrat l-fur'qān (The Criterion) Chapter (26) sūrat l-shuʿarā (The Poets) Chapter (27) sūrat l-naml (The Ants) Chapter (28) sūrat l-qaṣaṣ (The Stories) Chapter (29) sūrat l-ʿankabūt (The Spider) Chapter (30) sūrat l-rūm (The Romans) Chapter (31) sūrat luq'mān Chapter (32) sūrat l-sajdah (The Prostration) Chapter (33) sūrat l-aḥzāb (The Combined Forces) Chapter (34) sūrat saba (Sheba) Chapter (35) sūrat fāṭir (The Originator) Chapter (36) sūrat yā sīn Chapter (37) sūrat l-ṣāfāt (Those Ranges in Ranks) Chapter (38) sūrat ṣād Chapter (39) sūrat l-zumar (The Groups) Chapter (40) sūrat ghāfir (The Forgiver God) Chapter (41) sūrat fuṣṣilat (Explained in Detail) Chapter (42) sūrat l-shūrā (Consultation) Chapter (43) sūrat l-zukh'ruf (The Gold Adornment) Chapter (44) sūrat l-dukhān (The Smoke) Chapter (45) sūrat l-jāthiyah (Crouching) Chapter (46) sūrat l-aḥqāf (The Curved Sand-hills) Chapter (47) sūrat muḥammad Chapter (48) sūrat l-fatḥ (The Victory) Chapter (49) sūrat l-ḥujurāt (The Dwellings) Chapter (50) sūrat qāf Chapter (51) sūrat l-dhāriyāt (The Wind that Scatter) Chapter (52) sūrat l-ṭūr (The Mount) Chapter (53) sūrat l-najm (The Star) Chapter (54) sūrat l-qamar (The Moon) Chapter (55) sūrat l-raḥmān (The Most Gracious) Chapter (56) sūrat l-wāqiʿah (The Event) Chapter (57) sūrat l-ḥadīd (The Iron) Chapter (58) sūrat l-mujādilah (She That Disputeth) Chapter (59) sūrat l-ḥashr (The Gathering) Chapter (60) sūrat l-mum'taḥanah (The Woman to be examined) Chapter (61) sūrat l-ṣaf (The Row) Chapter (62) sūrat l-jumuʿah (Friday) Chapter (63) sūrat l-munāfiqūn (The Hypocrites) Chapter (64) sūrat l-taghābun (Mutual Loss & Gain) Chapter (65) sūrat l-ṭalāq (The Divorce) Chapter (66) sūrat l-taḥrīm (The Prohibition) Chapter (67) sūrat l-mulk (Dominion) Chapter (68) sūrat l-qalam (The Pen) Chapter (69) sūrat l-ḥāqah (The Inevitable) Chapter (70) sūrat l-maʿārij (The Ways of Ascent) Chapter (71) sūrat nūḥ Chapter (72) sūrat l-jin (The Jinn) Chapter (73) sūrat l-muzamil (The One wrapped in Garments) Chapter (74) sūrat l-mudathir (The One Enveloped) Chapter (75) sūrat l-qiyāmah (The Resurrection) Chapter (76) sūrat l-insān (Man) Chapter (77) sūrat l-mur'salāt (Those sent forth) Chapter (78) sūrat l-naba (The Great News) Chapter (79) sūrat l-nāziʿāt (Those who Pull Out) Chapter (80) sūrat ʿabasa (He frowned) Chapter (81) sūrat l-takwīr (The Overthrowing) Chapter (82) sūrat l-infiṭār (The Cleaving) Chapter (83) sūrat l-muṭafifīn (Those Who Deal in Fraud) Chapter (84) sūrat l-inshiqāq (The Splitting Asunder) Chapter (85) sūrat l-burūj (The Big Stars) Chapter (86) sūrat l-ṭāriq (The Night-Comer) Chapter (87) sūrat l-aʿlā (The Most High) Chapter (88) sūrat l-ghāshiyah (The Overwhelming) Chapter (89) sūrat l-fajr (The Dawn) Chapter (90) sūrat l-balad (The City) Chapter (91) sūrat l-shams (The Sun) Chapter (92) sūrat l-layl (The Night) Chapter (93) sūrat l-ḍuḥā (The Forenoon) Chapter (94) sūrat l-sharḥ (The Opening Forth) Chapter (95) sūrat l-tīn (The Fig) Chapter (96) sūrat l-ʿalaq (The Clot) Chapter (97) sūrat l-qadr (The Night of Decree) Chapter (98) sūrat l-bayinah (The Clear Evidence) Chapter (99) sūrat l-zalzalah (The Earthquake) Chapter (100) sūrat l-ʿādiyāt (Those That Run) Chapter (101) sūrat l-qāriʿah (The Striking Hour) Chapter (102) sūrat l-takāthur (The piling Up) Chapter (103) sūrat l-ʿaṣr (Time) Chapter (104) sūrat l-humazah (The Slanderer) Chapter (105) sūrat l-fīl (The Elephant) Chapter (106) sūrat quraysh Chapter (107) sūrat l-māʿūn (Small Kindnesses) Chapter (108) sūrat l-kawthar (A River in Paradise) Chapter (109) sūrat l-kāfirūn (The Disbelievers) Chapter (110) sūrat l-naṣr (The Help) Chapter (111) sūrat l-masad (The Palm Fibre) Chapter (112) sūrat l-ikhlāṣ (Sincerity) Chapter (113) sūrat l-falaq (The Daybreak) Chapter (114) sūrat l-nās (Mankind) Verse (4:1) Verse (4:2) Verse (4:3) Verse (4:4) Verse (4:5) Verse (4:6) Verse (4:7) Verse (4:8) Verse (4:9) Verse (4:10) Verse (4:11) Verse (4:12) Verse (4:13) Verse (4:14) Verse (4:15) Verse (4:16) Verse 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Chapter (4) sūrat l-nisāa (The Women)
Sahih International : Those who commit unlawful sexual intercourse of your women - bring against them four [witnesses] from among you. And if they testify, confine the guilty women to houses until death takes them or Allah ordains for them [another] way.
Pickthall : As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify (to the truth of the allegation) then confine them to the houses until death take them or (until) Allah appoint for them a way (through new legislation).
Yusuf Ali : If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence of four (Reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or Allah ordain for them some (other) way.
Shakir : And as for those who are guilty of an indecency from among your women, call to witnesses against them four (witnesses) from among you; then if they bear witness confine them to the houses until death takes them away or Allah opens some way for them.
Muhammad Sarwar : Those of your women who commit fornication, let four (Muslim) witness testify to their act. If there is sufficient testimony, confine them to their homes until they die, or until God provides a way for their freedom.
Mohsin Khan : And those of your women who commit illegal sexual intercourse, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them (i.e. women) to houses until death comes to them or Allah ordains for them some (other) way.
Arberry : Such of your women as commit indecency, call four of you to witness against them; and if they witness, then detain them in their houses until death takes them or God appoints for them a way.
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