Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 22nd 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 (4) sūrat l-nisāa (The Women)

Sahih International: And do not marry those [women] whom your fathers married, except what has already occurred. Indeed, it was an immorality and hateful [to Allah] and was evil as a way.

Pickthall: 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.

Yusuf Ali: And marry not women whom your fathers married,- except what is past: It was shameful and odious,- an abominable custom indeed.

Shakir: And marry not woman whom your fathers married, except what has already passed; this surely is indecent and hateful, and it is an evil way.

Muhammad Sarwar: Do not marry, from now on, the ex-wives of your fathers for that custom was sinful, loathsome, and abominable.

Mohsin Khan: And marry not women whom your fathers married, except what has already passed; indeed it was shameful and most hateful, and an evil way.

Arberry: And do not marry women that your fathers married, unless it be a thing of the past; surely that is indecent and hateful; an evil way.

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See Also

• Verse (4:22) Morphology - description of each Arabic word
• Dependency graph - syntactic analysis (i'rāb) for verse (4:22)