AL TAHRIM (Prohibition)
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
1 O prophet! Why do you forbid that which Allah has made lawful to you, seeking to please your wives? But Allah is oft-forgiving, most merciful.
2 Allah has already ordained for you the dissolution of your oaths: and Allah is your protector, and he is full of knowledge and wisdom.
3 When the prophet disclosed a matter in confidence to one of his wives, and she then divulged it and Allah made it known to him, he confirmed part of it and repudiated a part. Then when he told her about it, she said, Who told you this? He said, He told me who knows and is well acquainted with all things.
4 If you two turn is repentance to him, your hearts are indeed so inclined; but if you back up each other against him, truly Allah is his protector, and Jibrail, and the righteous among those who believe, and furthermore, the angels will back him up.
5 It may be, if he divorced you, that Allah will give him in exchange wives better than you, who submit, who believe, who are devout, who turn to Allah in repentance, who worship, who travel and fast, previously married or virgins.
6 O you who believe! Save yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is men and stones, over which are angels stern and severe, who flinch not from executing the commands they receive from Allah, but do what they are commanded.
7 O you unbelievers! Make no excuses this day! You are being but repaid for all that you did!
8 O you who believe! Turn to Allah with sincere repentance: in the hope that your Lord will remove from you your ills and admit you to gardens beneath which rivers flow, the day that Allah will not permit to be humiliated the prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run forward before them and by their right hands, while they say, Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and grant us forgiveness: for you have power over all things.
9 O prophet! Strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is hell, an evil refuge.
10 Allah sets forth, for an example to the unbelievers, the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut: they were under two of our righteous servants, but they were false to their husbands, and they profited nothing before Allah on their account, but were told: Enter the fire along with others that enter!
11 And Allah sets forth, as an example to those who believe the wife of Firaun: behold she said: O my Lord! Build for me, in nearness to you, a mansion in the garden, and save me from Firaun and his doings, and save me from those that do wrong;
12 And Maryam the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity; and we breathed into her of our spirit: and she testified to the truth of the words of her Lord and of his revelations, and was one of the devout.