Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

(Those who accuse chaste, heedless, believing women are cursed in the World and the Hereafter; and they have a great punishment.

اِنَّ الَّذ۪ينَ يَرْمُونَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْغَافِلَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ لُعِنُوا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْاٰخِرَةِۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظ۪يمٌۙ
Inna allatheena yarmoona almuhsanatialghafilati almu/minati luAAinoo fee addunyawal-akhirati walahum AAathabun AAatheem
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1innaIndeed
2alladhīnathose who
3yarmūnaaccuseرمي
4l-muḥ'ṣanātithe chaste womenحصن
5l-ghāfilātithe unaware womenغفل
6l-mu'mināti(and) the believing womenامن
7luʿinūare cursedلعن
8in
9l-dun'yāthe worldدنو
10wal-ākhiratiand the Hereafterاخر
11walahumAnd for them
12ʿadhābun(is) a punishmentعذب
13ʿaẓīmungreatعظم
  • Aisha Bewley

    Those who accuse women who are chaste, but who are careless and yet have iman, are cursed both in this world and the Next World, and they will have a terrible punishment

  • Progressive Muslims

    Those who accuse the independent chaste believing women, they will be cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and they will have a painful retribution.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    But, verily, those who accuse chaste women, mentally preoccupied, believers in Divine Moral Values, shall be rejected from the Grace of Allah in this world and in the life to come. And awesome suffering awaits them. (For eighty lashes from the court see (24:4)).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    (Those who accuse chaste, heedless, believing women are cursed in the World and the Hereafter; and they have a great punishment.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Surely, those who accuse the independent innocent believing females, they will be cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and they will have a painful retribution.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Those who accuse the independent, innocent, acknowledging women, they will be cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and they will have a painful retribution.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Surely, those who falsely accuse married women who are pious believers have incurred condemnation in this life and in the Hereafter; they have incurred a horrendous retribution.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Verily those who blaspheme unsuspecting chaste believing women will be cursed in this world and the next; and for them there will be severe punishment.

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    Indeed, those who accuse chaste, unaware and believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter; and they will have a great punishment

  • Muhammad Asad

    verily, those who accuse chaste women who may have been unthinkingly careless but have remained true to their faith, shall be rejected in this world as well as in the life to come: and awesome suffering awaits them

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Lo! as for those who traduce virtuous, believing women (who are) careless, cursed are they in the world and the Hereafter. Theirs will be an awful doom

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Those that accuse chaste, unwary, believing women,* have been cursed in the world and the Hereafter, and a mighty chastisement awaits them.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Cursed indeed here and Hereafter are those who seek to defame the virtuous women who are unaware of what is traduced in propagation, who are attentive to all the duties owed to Allah. They -these traducers- have come within the measure of Allah's wrath here and Hereafter and they must expect the torment that shall be laid upon the damned.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Those who falsely accuse the married women (who are pious believers, ) have earned the curse of God in this life as well as in the Hereafter. They will be subjected to a horrible punishment.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Verily, those who accuse chaste women, who never even think of anything touching their chastity and are good believers - are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter, and for them will be a great torment -

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Those who slander chaste women, indiscreet but believing, are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter: for them is a grievous Penalty,-

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Surely those who accuse chaste, unsuspecting, believing women are cursed in this life and the Hereafter. And they will suffer a tremendous punishment

  • Taqi Usmani

    Surely, those who level a false charge against the chaste, natve and believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and for them there is a mighty punishment

  • Abdul Haleem

    Those who accuse honourable but unwary believing women are rejected by God, in this life and the next. A painful punishment awaits them

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Surely those who cast it up on women in wedlock that are heedless but believing shall be accursed in the present world and the world to come; and there awaits them a mighty chastisement

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Verily, those who cast imputations on chaste women who are negligent but believing shall be cursed in this world and the next; and for them is mighty woe.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And let not those amongst you who have plenty (dignity and ease and ample means) swear that they will not give aught to their kinsman and the needy and those who are fugitives from their homes in the cause of Allah, but let them forgive and show indulgence. Do you not yearn that Allah should forgive you? Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Surely the ones who throw (accusations) upon women in wedlock that are heedless and believing will be cursed in the present (life) (Literally: the lowly "life"; i. e., the life of this world) and the Hereafter; and they will have a tremendous torment.

  • George Sale

    Moreover they who falsely accuse modest women, who behave in a negligent manner, and are true believers, shall be cursed in this world, and in the world to come; and they shall suffer a severe punishment.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Verily, those who spread accusations (about the character of) chaste believing women, who are (truly) pure (in their character)— Are cursed in this life, and in the Hereafter: And for them is a painful penalty—

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Those who calumniate chaste, unwary, innocent believing women stand cursed in the present life and the Hereafter, and there awaits them a grievous punishment.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Indeed those who accuse honourable and unwary faithful women shall be cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and there shall be a great punishment for them