Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 24:23 | |
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24:23 ان الذين يرمون المحصنات الغافلات المؤمنات لعنوا في الدنيا والاخرة ولهم عذاب عظيم | |
Transliteration | Inna allatheena yarmoona almuhsanati alghafilati almu/minati luAAinoo fee alddunya waal-akhirati walahum AAathabun AAatheemun |
Literal | That truly those who blame and accuse the chaste/married , the neglecting/disregarding (F) , the believing (F), were cursed/humiliated in the present world, and the end (other life) and for them (is) a great torture. |
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,- |
Pickthal | 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 |
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 |
Shakir | Surely those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil), are cursed in this world and the hereafter, and they shall have a grievous chastisement. |
Sarwar | Those who slander the unaware but chaste and believing women (of committing unlawful carnal relations) are condemned in this life and in the life hereafter. They will suffer a great punishment |
Khalifa | 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. |
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, |
H/K/Saheeh | Indeed, those who [falsely] accuse chaste, unaware and believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter; and they will have a great punishment |
Malik | Those who accuse chaste but careless believing women are cursed in this life, and in the Hereafter they shall have a grievous punishment.[23] |
QXP | 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)). |
Maulana Ali | Surely those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil), are cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and for them is a grievous chastisement, |
Free Minds | 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. |
Qaribullah | Surely, those who defame chaste, unsuspecting, believing women, shall be cursed in this world and in the Everlasting Life, and for them there is a mighty punishment. |
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. |
JM Rodwell | Verily, they who throw out charges against virtuous but careless women, who yet are believers, shall be cursed in this world and in the world to come; and a terrible punishment doth await them. |
Asad | [But,] verily, those who [falsely, and without repentance,] [According to Razi, the absence of repentance is incontrovertibly implied in the condemnation expressed in the sequence. since the Quran makes it clear in many places that God always accepts a sinner's sincere repentance.] accuse chaste women who may have been unthinkingly careless but have remained true to their faith, [Lit., "chaste, unmindful [or "careless"] believing women", i.e., virtuous women who thoughtlessly expose themselves to situations on which a slanderous construction may be put.] shall be rejected [from God's grace] in this world as well as in the life to come: and awesome suffering awaits them |
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