Surah Al-Mujadilah English Translation & Transliteration

¹Allah has certainly heard the woman who argued with you about her husband and brought her complaint to Allah. Allah was hearing the conversation between the two of you. For Allah hears all and sees all.

²As for those of you who divorce their wives by likening them to their mothers, let them know well that those women can never be their mothers. For their mothers are only the women who gave birth to them. So with this comparison they are uttering an ugly and baseless word. Yet Allah is most pardoning and most forgiving.

³The penalty for those of you who divorce their wives by likening them to their mothers and then wish to go back on their words is to free a slave before they have relations with their wives. For Allah is aware of all that you do.

⁴But whoever does not find the means for this, his penalty is to fast for two consecutive months. And the penalty for one who cannot manage this either is to feed sixty poor people. These rulings are a test of the sincerity of those who believe and trust in Allah and His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages. These are the limits Allah has set; and for those who violate these limits there is a painful punishment.

⁵There is no doubt that those who set themselves against and oppose Allah and His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages, after We have sent down clear verses to them, will be disgraced and humiliated just as those before them were disgraced and humiliated. For those who violate Our limits and do not apply Our verses there is a disgraceful punishment.

⁶A day will come when Allah will raise them all to life and inform them of what they did. Even though they may forget what they did, Allah will count out to them everything they did, one by one. For Allah is witness to all things.

⁷Do you not see that Allah is aware of everything that happens in the heavens and on the earth? If three people hold a secret meeting, let them know that Allah is the fourth of them; or if they are five, Allah is surely the sixth. Whether those who hold secret meetings are fewer or more than this, and wherever they may be, Allah is surely with them. Then on the Day of Resurrection Allah will inform them of what they did. For Allah knows all things fully.

⁸Do you see those who, though forbidden to hold secret meetings among themselves with evil intent, disregard this prohibition and hold secret talks for the purpose of evil, enmity, and disobedience to the Messenger? When they meet you, they greet you in a way Allah has not greeted you. And among themselves they say: "Why, then, does Allah not punish us for what we say!" Hell will settle their account. Yes, they will all be thrown into it; what an evil final destination it is!

⁹O you who believe, when you hold private conversations among yourselves, do not hold them for the purpose of sin, enmity, and disobedience to the Messenger; hold them only about goodness and about being attentive and conscious toward Allah's commands! Guard yourselves against defying Allah, before whom you will be gathered to give account!

¹⁰Malicious secret talks and meetings are contrived by Satan to grieve the believers. Yet such talk cannot harm the believers at all except by Allah's leave. So let the believers bind themselves to Allah alone and trust in Him!

¹¹O you who believe! When you are told to make room in gatherings, make room, so that Allah may make room for you! And when you are told, "Rise," rise at once, so that Allah may raise the ranks of those of you who believe and those who have knowledge. Know that Allah is aware of all that you do.

¹²O you who believe! When you request a private meeting with the Messenger, give some charity before that meeting. That is better and purer for you. But if you cannot find the means to give charity, know that Allah is still most forgiving and most merciful.

¹³Giving charity before a private meeting with the Messenger proved hard for you, did it not? Since you did not do this even though you had the means, Allah has lifted this obligation from you. So continue to perform your prayer and give your zakat, and obey Allah and His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages; for Allah is aware of all that you do.

¹⁴Do you see those who have made common cause with a people who have incurred Allah's wrath? In fact they are neither of you nor of them. And yet they swear falsely, saying, "We too are believers."

¹⁵Allah has prepared a severe punishment for them. For they have long been doing very evil things.

¹⁶On the one hand they use their oaths as a shield to protect themselves, while on the other they lead people astray from Allah's path. That is why there is a humiliating punishment for them.

¹⁷Neither their wealth nor their children will ever be able to protect them from Allah's punishment. They are the people of the Fire, and there they will remain.

¹⁸A day will come when Allah will raise them all to life, and they will swear to Allah too, just as they swear to you now, hoping to gain something by it. Know well that they are liars.

¹⁹Satan has gained mastery over them and so made them forget Allah's Reminder, the Quran. They are Satan's party. Know well that Satan's party is doomed to loss.

²⁰As for those who defy Allah and His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages, they will be in abasement.

²¹For Allah has decreed: —I will surely prevail, I and My messengers who convey My messages. For Allah is all-strong and ever victorious.

²²You will not find a people who truly believe in Allah and the Last Day cherishing heartfelt love for those who defy Allah and His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages, even if they are their own fathers, children, brothers, or clan. For Allah has inscribed faith in their hearts and supported them with revelation from Himself. Allah will settle them in gardens beneath which rivers flow, and there they will remain. For Allah is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Allah. It is they who are truly on Allah's side. Know well that only those on Allah's side will attain salvation and reach what they hope for.