Surah An Nisaa Ayat 22
Women · English translation · Edition God
Do not marry women whom your fathers married, except what is already past. That is improper, indecent, and a bad custom.
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Surah An Nisaa Ayat 20
If you wish to replace one wife with another, and you have given one of them a fortune, take nothing back from it. Would you take it back fraudulently and sinfully?
Surah An Nisaa Ayat 21
And how can you take it back, when you have been intimate with one another, and they have received from you a solid commitment?
Surah An Nisaa Ayat 23
Forbidden for you are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your paternal aunts, your maternal aunts, your brother's daughters, your sister's daughters, your foster-mothers who nursed you, your sisters through nursing, your wives' mothers, and your stepdaughters in your guardianship—born of wives you have gone into—but if you have not gone into them, there is no blame on you. And the wives of your genetic sons, and marrying two sisters simultaneously. Except what is past. God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Surah An Nisaa Ayat 24
And all married women, except those you rightfully possess. This is God’s decree, binding upon you. Permitted for you are those that lie outside these limits, provided you seek them in legal marriage, with gifts from your property, seeking wedlock, not prostitution. If you wish to enjoy them, then give them their dowry—a legal obligation. You commit no error by agreeing to any change to the dowry. God is All-Knowing, Most Wise.
About this reference
This is ayat 22 of Surah An Nisaa (Women), surah 4 of the Quran. This surah contains 176 ayats. The English translation is by Talal Itani, ClearQuran, Edition God.
Read all 176 ayats of Surah An Nisaa