Sura 4 An-Nisa (The Women), ayah 23

  1. حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أُمَّهَاتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُكُمْ وَأَخَوَاتُكُمْ وَعَمَّاتُكُمْ وَخَالَاتُكُمْ وَبَنَاتُ الْأَخِ وَبَنَاتُ الْأُخْتِ وَأُمَّهَاتُكُمُ اللَّاتِي أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ وَأَخَوَاتُكُمْ مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ وَأُمَّهَاتُ نِسَائِكُمْ وَرَبَائِبُكُمُ اللَّاتِي فِي حُجُورِكُمْ مِنْ نِسَائِكُمُ اللَّاتِي دَخَلْتُمْ بِهِنَّ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَكُونُوا دَخَلْتُمْ بِهِنَّ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَحَلَائِلُ أَبْنَائِكُمُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ أَصْلَابِكُمْ وَأَنْ تَجْمَعُوا بَيْنَ الْأُخْتَيْنِ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ غَفُورًا رَحِيمًا

    Translation by words

    حُرِّمَتْ
    Forbidden
    عَلَيْكُمْ
    to you
    أُمَّهَٰتُكُمْ
    (are) your mothers
    وَبَنَاتُكُمْ
    and your daughters
    وَأَخَوَٰتُكُمْ
    and your sisters
    وَعَمَّٰتُكُمْ
    and your father's sisters
    وَخَٰلَٰتُكُمْ
    and your mother's sisters
    وَبَنَاتُ
    and daughters
    ٱلْأَخِ
    (of) brothers,
    وَبَنَاتُ
    and daughters
    ٱلْأُخْتِ
    (of) sisters
    وَأُمَّهَٰتُكُمُ
    and (the) mothers
    ٱلَّٰتِىٓ
    who
    أَرْضَعْنَكُمْ
    nursed you
    وَأَخَوَٰتُكُم
    and your sisters
    مِّنَ
    from
    ٱلرَّضَٰعَةِ
    the nursing
    وَأُمَّهَٰتُ
    and mothers
    نِسَآئِكُمْ
    (of) your wives
    وَرَبَٰٓئِبُكُمُ
    and your step daughters
    ٱلَّٰتِى
    who
    فِى
    (are) in
    حُجُورِكُم
    your guardianship
    مِّن
    of
    نِّسَآئِكُمُ
    your women
    ٱلَّٰتِى
    whom
    دَخَلْتُم
    you had relations
    بِهِنَّ
    with them,
    فَإِن
    but if
    لَّمْ
    not
    تَكُونُوا۟
    you had
    دَخَلْتُم
    relations
    بِهِنَّ
    with them,
    فَلَا
    then (there is) no
    جُنَاحَ
    sin
    عَلَيْكُمْ
    on you.
    وَحَلَٰٓئِلُ
    And wives
    أَبْنَآئِكُمُ
    (of) your sons,
    ٱلَّذِينَ
    those who
    مِنْ
    (are) from
    أَصْلَٰبِكُمْ
    your loins
    وَأَن
    and that
    تَجْمَعُوا۟
    you gather together
    بَيْنَ
    [between]
    ٱلْأُخْتَيْنِ
    two sisters
    إِلَّا
    except
    مَا
    what
    قَدْ
    has
    سَلَفَ
    passed before.
    إِنَّ
    Indeed,
    ٱللَّهَ
    Allah
    كَانَ
    is
    غَفُورًا
    Oft-Forgiving,
    رَّحِيمًا
    Most-Merciful.

    Prohibited to you (for marriage) are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your father's sisters, your mother's sisters, your brother's daughters, your sister's daughters, your (milk) mothers who nursed you, your sisters through nursing, your wives' mothers, and your step-daughters under your guardianship (born) of your wives unto whom you have gone in. But if you have not gone in unto them, there is no sin upon you. And (also prohibited are) the wives of your sons who are from your (own) loins, and that you take (in marriage) two sisters simultaneously, except for what has already occurred. Indeed, Allah is ever Forgiving and Merciful.

    4:23

Translation: Saheeh International

Sura 4 An-Nisa (The Women)