سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٦
إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ ٦
illā ʿalā azwājihim aw mā malakat aymānuhum fa-innahum ghayru malūmīna
Except from their wives or those their right hands possess,947 for indeed, they will not be blamed -
[947] Female slaves or captives under their ownership.
Verse 6 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:6), 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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Except using them with their wives or the female servants they possessed, for they are blameless in taking pleasure from them through sexual intercourse and the like.
except with their wives or slave women they may own, for then they are free of blame.
Except from their wives or (the slaves) that their right hands possess, - for then, they are free from blame;
Save from their wives or the (slaves) that their right hands possess, for then they are not blameworthy,
Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess,- for (in their case) they are free from blame,
Except before their mates or those whom their right hands possess, for they surely are not blameable,
Except from their spouses and what their right hands possess, then surely they are not blameworthy. (literally: other than being blameworthy)
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ
Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -
