Surah An-Nisā (The Women) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. يا أيها الناس اتقوا ربكم الذي خلقكم من نفس واحدة وخلق منها زوجها وبث منهما رجالا كثيرا ونساء واتقوا الله الذي تساءلون به والأرحام إن الله كان عليكم رقيبا

   1

   O mankind! Be wary of your Lord who created you from a single soul, and created its mate from it, and from the two of them scattered numerous men and women. Be wary of Allah, in whose Name you adjure one another and [of severing ties with] blood relations. Indeed Allah is watchful over you.

   yā-ʾayyuhā n-nāsu ttaqū rabbakumu lladhī khalaqakum min nafsin wāḥidatin wa-khalaqa minhā zawjahā wa-baththa minhumā rijālan kathīran wa-nisāʾan wa-ttaqū llāha lladhī tasāʾalūna bihī wa-l-ʾarḥāma ʾinna llāha kāna ʿalaykum raqīban

2. وآتوا اليتامى أموالهم ولا تتبدلوا الخبيث بالطيب ولا تأكلوا أموالهم إلى أموالكم إنه كان حوبا كبيرا

   2

   Give the orphans their property, and do not replace the good with the bad, and do not eat up their property [by mingling it] with your own property, for that is indeed a great sin.

   wa-ʾātū l-yatāmā ʾamwālahum wa-lā tatabaddalū l-khabītha bi-ṭ-ṭayyibi wa-lā taʾkulū ʾamwālahum ʾilā ʾamwālikum ʾinnahū kāna ḥūban kabīran

3. وإن خفتم ألا تقسطوا في اليتامى فانكحوا ما طاب لكم من النساء مثنى وثلاث ورباع فإن خفتم ألا تعدلوا فواحدة أو ما ملكت أيمانكم ذلك أدنى ألا تعولوا

   3

   If you fear that you may not deal justly with the orphans, then marry [other] women that you like, two, three, or four. But if you fear that you may not treat them fairly, then [marry only] one, or [marry from among] your slave-women. That makes it likelier that you will not be unfair.

   wa-ʾin khiftum ʾallā tuqsiṭū fī l-yatāmā fa-nkiḥū mā ṭāba lakum mina n-nisāʾi mathnā wa-thulātha wa-rubāʿa fa-ʾin khiftum ʾallā taʿdilū fa-wāḥidatan ʾaw mā malakat ʾaymānukum dhālika ʾadnā ʾallā taʿūlū

4. وآتوا النساء صدقاتهن نحلة فإن طبن لكم عن شيء منه نفسا فكلوه هنيئا مريئا

   4

   Give women their dowries, handing it over to them; but if they remit anything of it of their own accord, then consume it as [something] lawful and wholesome.

   wa-ʾātū n-nisāʾa ṣaduqātihinna niḥlatan fa-ʾin ṭibna lakum ʿan shayʾin minhu nafsan fa-kulūhu hanīʾan marīʾan

5. ولا تؤتوا السفهاء أموالكم التي جعل الله لكم قياما وارزقوهم فيها واكسوهم وقولوا لهم قولا معروفا

   5

   Do not give the feeble-minded your property, which Allah has assigned you to manage: provide for them out of it and clothe them, and speak to them honourable words.

   wa-lā tuʾtū s-sufahāʾa ʾamwālakumu llatī jaʿala llāhu lakum qiyāman wa-rzuqūhum fīhā wa-ksūhum wa-qūlū lahum qawlan maʿrūfan

6. وابتلوا اليتامى حتى إذا بلغوا النكاح فإن آنستم منهم رشدا فادفعوا إليهم أموالهم ولا تأكلوها إسرافا وبدارا أن يكبروا ومن كان غنيا فليستعفف ومن كان فقيرا فليأكل بالمعروف فإذا دفعتم إليهم أموالهم فأشهدوا عليهم وكفى بالله حسيبا

   6

   Test the orphans when they reach the age of marriage. Then if you discern in them maturity, deliver to them their property. And do not consume it lavishly and hastily lest they should grow up. As for him who is well-off, let him be abstemious, and as for him who is poor, let him eat in an honourable manner. And when you deliver to them their property, take witnesses over them, and Allah suffices as reckoner.

   wa-btalū l-yatāmā ḥattā ʾidhā balaghū n-nikāḥa fa-ʾin ʾānastum minhum rushdan fa-dfaʿū ʾilayhim ʾamwālahum wa-lā taʾkulūhā ʾisrāfan wa-bidāran ʾan yakbarū wa-man kāna ghaniyyan fa-l-yastaʿfif wa-man kāna faqīran fa-l-yaʾkul bi-l-maʿrūfi fa-ʾidhā dafaʿtum ʾilayhim ʾamwālahum fa-ʾashhidū ʿalayhim wa-kafā bi-llāhi ḥasīban