Text of verse 23:5
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَٰفِظُونَ ٥
Transliteration
wa-alladhīna hum lifurūjihim ḥāfiẓūna
Translation
And they who guard their private parts
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-Mu’minun, Verse 5
سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٥
Verse 5 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:5), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 342 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 5
Al-Mukhtasar
Those who safeguarded their private parts by keeping them far from fornication, homosexuality and shameful actions; so they remained pure and chaste.
Other translations of verse 5
and those who guard their sexual desires2,
Notes
[2] i.e., illegal sexual acts.
And those who guard their chastity (i.e. private parts, from illegal sexual acts)
And who guard their modesty -
Who abstain from sex,
And who guard their private parts,
And the ones who are preservers of their private parts-
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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2004
The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about the foremost deed that leads people to Paradise, and he replied: "Fear of Allah and good character
The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about the foremost deed that leads people to Paradise, and he replied: "Fear of Allah and good character." Then, he was asked about the things that most lead people to Hellfire, and he said: "The tongue and the private…
أَكْثَرِ مَا يُدْخِلُ النَّاسَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَالَ " تَقْوَى اللَّهِ وَحُسْنُ الْخُلُقِ " . وَسُئِلَ عَنْ أَكْثَرِ مَا يُدْخِلُ النَّاسَ النَّارَ فَقَالَ " الْفَمُ وَالْفَرْجُ "
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Al-Ma’arij 70:29
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَٰفِظُونَ
And those who guard their private parts