Surah At-Taĥrīm (The Prohibition) in English

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

1. يا أيها النبي لم تحرم ما أحل الله لك تبتغي مرضات أزواجك والله غفور رحيم

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   O Prophet! Why do you disallow [yourself] what Allah has made lawful for you, seeking to please your wives? And Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   yā-ʾayyuhā n-nabiyyu li-ma tuḥarrimu mā ʾaḥalla llāhu laka tabtaghī marḍāta ʾazwājika wa-llāhu ghafūrun raḥīmun

2. قد فرض الله لكم تحلة أيمانكم والله مولاكم وهو العليم الحكيم

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   Allah has certainly made lawful for you the dissolution of your oaths, and Allah is your master and He is the All-knowing, the All-wise.

   qad faraḍa llāhu lakum taḥillata ʾaymānikum wa-llāhu mawlākum wa-huwa l-ʿalīmu l-ḥakīmu

3. وإذ أسر النبي إلى بعض أزواجه حديثا فلما نبأت به وأظهره الله عليه عرف بعضه وأعرض عن بعض فلما نبأها به قالت من أنبأك هذا قال نبأني العليم الخبير

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   When the Prophet confided a matter to one of his wives, but when she divulged it [instead of guarding the secret] and Allah apprised him about it, he acquainted [her] with part of the matter and ignored part of it. So when he told her about it, she said, ‘Who informed you about it?’ He said, ‘The All-knowing and the All-aware has informed me.’

   wa-ʾidh ʾasarra n-nabiyyu ʾilā baʿḍi ʾazwājihī ḥadīthan fa-lammā nabbaʾat bihī wa-ʾaẓharahu llāhu ʿalayhi ʿarrafa baʿḍahū wa-ʾaʿraḍa ʿan baʿḍin fa-lammā nabbaʾahā bihī qālat man ʾanbaʾaka hādhā qāla nabbaʾaniya l-ʿalīmu l-khabīru

4. إن تتوبا إلى الله فقد صغت قلوبكما وإن تظاهرا عليه فإن الله هو مولاه وجبريل وصالح المؤمنين والملائكة بعد ذلك ظهير

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   If the two of you repent to Allah... for your hearts have certainly swerved, and if you back each other against him, then [know that] Allah is indeed his guardian, and his supporters are Gabriel, the righteous among the faithful and, thereafter, the angels.

   ʾin tatūbā ʾilā llāhi fa-qad ṣaghat qulūbukumā wa-ʾin taẓāharā ʿalayhi fa-ʾinna llāha huwa mawlāhu wa-jibrīlu wa-ṣāliḥu l-muʾminīna wa-l-malāʾikatu baʿda dhālika ẓahīrun

5. عسى ربه إن طلقكن أن يبدله أزواجا خيرا منكن مسلمات مؤمنات قانتات تائبات عابدات سائحات ثيبات وأبكارا

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   It may be that if he divorces you his Lord will give him, in [your] stead, wives better than you: [such as are] muslim, faithful, obedient, penitent, devout and given to fasting, virgins and non-virgins.

   ʿasā rabbuhū ʾin ṭallaqakunna ʾan yubdilahū ʾazwājan khayran minkunna muslimātin muʾminātin qānitātin tāʾibātin ʿābidātin sāʾiḥātin thayyibātin wa-ʾabkāran

6. يا أيها الذين آمنوا قوا أنفسكم وأهليكم نارا وقودها الناس والحجارة عليها ملائكة غلاظ شداد لا يعصون الله ما أمرهم ويفعلون ما يؤمرون

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   O you who have faith! Save yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel will be people and stones, over which are [assigned] severe and mighty angels, who do not disobey whatever Allah commands them and carry out what they are commanded.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū qū ʾanfusakum wa-ʾahlīkum nāran waqūduhā n-nāsu wa-l-ḥijāratu ʿalayhā malāʾikatun ghilāẓun shidādun lā yaʿṣūna llāha mā ʾamarahum wa-yafʿalūna mā yuʾmarūna

7. يا أيها الذين كفروا لا تعتذروا اليوم إنما تجزون ما كنتم تعملون

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   [They will call out to the faithless:] ‘O faithless ones! Do not make any excuses today. You are being requited only for what you used to do.’

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna kafarū lā taʿtadhirū l-yawma ʾinnamā tujzawna mā kuntum taʿmalūna