Surah An-Nisā (The Women) in English

1. واللاتي يأتين الفاحشة من نسائكم فاستشهدوا عليهن أربعة منكم فإن شهدوا فأمسكوهن في البيوت حتى يتوفاهن الموت أو يجعل الله لهن سبيلا

   15

   Should any of your women commit an indecent act, produce against them four witnesses from yourselves, and if they testify, detain them in [their] houses until death finishes them, or Allah decrees a course for them.

   wa-llātī yaʾtīna l-fāḥishata min nisāʾikum fa-stashhidū ʿalayhinna ʾarbaʿatan minkum fa-ʾin shahidū fa-ʾamsikūhunna fī l-buyūti ḥattā yatawaffāhunna l-mawtu ʾaw yajʿala llāhu lahunna sabīlan

2. واللذان يأتيانها منكم فآذوهما فإن تابا وأصلحا فأعرضوا عنهما إن الله كان توابا رحيما

   16

   Should two among you commit it, chastise them both; but if they repent and reform, let them alone. Indeed Allah is all-clement, all-merciful.

   wa-lladhāni yaʾtiyānihā minkum fa-ʾādhūhumā fa-ʾin tābā wa-ʾaṣlaḥā fa-ʾaʿriḍū ʿanhumā ʾinna llāha kāna tawwāban raḥīman

3. إنما التوبة على الله للذين يعملون السوء بجهالة ثم يتوبون من قريب فأولئك يتوب الله عليهم وكان الله عليما حكيما

   17

   [Acceptance of] repentance by Allah is only for those who commit evil out of ignorance and then repent promptly. It is such whose repentance Allah will accept, and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise.

   ʾinnamā t-tawbatu ʿalā llāhi li-lladhīna yaʿmalūna s-sūʾa bi-jahālatin thumma yatūbūna min qarībin fa-ʾulāʾika yatūbu llāhu ʿalayhim wa-kāna llāhu ʿalīman ḥakīman

4. وليست التوبة للذين يعملون السيئات حتى إذا حضر أحدهم الموت قال إني تبت الآن ولا الذين يموتون وهم كفار أولئك أعتدنا لهم عذابا أليما

   18

   But [acceptance of] repentance is not for those who go on committing misdeeds: when death approaches any of them, he says, ‘I repent now.’ Nor is it for those who die while they are faithless. For such We have prepared a painful punishment.

   wa-laysati t-tawbatu li-lladhīna yaʿmalūna s-sayyiʾāti ḥattā ʾidhā ḥaḍara ʾaḥadahumu l-mawtu qāla ʾinnī tubtu l-ʾāna wa-lā lladhīna yamūtūna wa-hum kuffārun ʾulāʾika ʾaʿtadnā lahum ʿadhāban ʾalīman

5. يا أيها الذين آمنوا لا يحل لكم أن ترثوا النساء كرها ولا تعضلوهن لتذهبوا ببعض ما آتيتموهن إلا أن يأتين بفاحشة مبينة وعاشروهن بالمعروف فإن كرهتموهن فعسى أن تكرهوا شيئا ويجعل الله فيه خيرا كثيرا

   19

   O you who have faith! It is not lawful for you to inherit women forcibly, and do not press them to take away part of what you have given them, unless they commit a gross indecency. Consort with them in an honourable manner; and should you dislike them, maybe you dislike something while Allah invests it with an abundant good.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā yaḥillu lakum ʾan tarithū n-nisāʾa karhan wa-lā taʿḍulūhunna li-tadhhabū bi-baʿḍi mā ʾātaytumūhunna ʾillā ʾan yaʾtīna bi-fāḥishatin mubayyinatin wa-ʿāshirūhunna bi-l-maʿrūfi fa-ʾin karihtumūhunna fa-ʿasā ʾan takrahū shayʾan wa-yajʿala llāhu fīhi khayran kathīran