Quran 24 : 23

Indeed, those who accuse the chaste women, the unaware women (and) the believing women, are cursed in the world and the Hereafter. And for them (is) a punishment great.
إِنَّ
Iinna
ٱلَّذِينَ
Alladhīna
يَرْمُونَ
Yarmūna
ٱلْمُحْصَنَٰتِ
Almuḥṣanaāti
ٱلْغَٰفِلَٰتِ
Alghaāfilaāti
ٱلْمُؤْمِنَٰتِ
Almuuminaāti
لُعِنُوا۟
Luʿinūa
فِى
Fiā
ٱلدُّنْيَا
Addunyā
وَٱلْءَاخِرَةِ
Waalʾākhirahi
وَلَهُمْ
Walahum
عَذَابٌ
ʿAdhābun
عَظِيمٌ
ʿAẓīmun

Mustaqim

Those who accuse unaware innocent believing women are cursed in this world and the hereafter and for them is a severe punishment.

Bakhtiari Nejad

Those who accuse the unaware chaste believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter and they will have a great punishment,

Abdel Haleem

Those who accuse honourable but unwary believing women are rejected by God, in this life and the next. A painful punishment awaits the

Bilal Muhammad 2018

Those who slander chaste women, indiscreet but believing, are cursed in this life and in the hereafter, for them is a terrible penalty

The Wise Quran

Indeed, those who accuse chaste heedless believing women, are cursed in the world and the hereafter; and for them is great punishment.

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Those who slander chaste women, indiscreet but believing, are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter: for them is a grievous Penalty,

Talal Itani (2012)

Those who slander honorable, innocent, believing women are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter. They will have a terrible punishment

Wahiduddin Khan

Truly, those who accuse chaste, unwary, believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter. For them awaits a terrible chastisement

Irving/Hegab

Those who cast things up at heedless [yet] believing matrons will be cursed in this world and the Hereafter. They will have severe torment

The Study Quran

Truly those who accuse chaste and heedless believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and theirs shall be a great punishmen

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Undoubtedly, those who malign, unaware chaste believing women, are cursed in the world and the Hereafter. And for them is the mighty torment.

N J Dawood 2014

Those who defame honourable but careless believing women shall be cursed in this world and in the world to come. Grievous punishment awaits the

Sher Ali

Verily, those, who calumniate chaste, unwary, believing women, are cursed in this world and the hereafter. And for them is a grievous chastisement

T.B.Irving

Those who cast things up at heedless [yet] believing matrons will be cursed in this world and the Hereafter. They will have severe torment

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

verily those who accuse chaste. unknowing, - believing women, shall be cursed in the world and the Hereafter; and for them shall be a torment mighty

Ahmed Ali

Verily those who blaspheme unsuspecting chaste believing women will be cursed in this world and the next; and for them there will be severe punishment

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

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 doo

Musharraf Hussain

Those who falsely accuse careless but nonetheless chaste believing women shall be cursed here and the Hereafter, and will be severely punished,

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

Those who falsely accuse innocent, unsuspecting, believing women are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter, and they will face a severe punishment.

Mustafa Khattab 2018

Surely those who accuse chaste, unsuspecting, believing women are cursed in this life and the Hereafter. And they will suffer a tremendous punishment

Safi Kaskas

Those who [falsely] accuse chaste women [who are] incautious but believing are cursed in this world and the Hereafter; they will have a great punishment

Edward Henry Palmer

Verily, those who cast imputations on chaste women who are negligent but believing shall be cursed in this world and the next; and for them is mighty woe

Maulana Muhammad 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

Mohammad Shafi

Those who accuse chaste, unwary, believing women are indeed accursed in this world and in the Hereafter, and they shall have a grievously great punishment

Ali Quli Qara'i

Indeed those who accuse honourable and unwary faithful women shall be cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and there shall be a great punishment for the

Abdul Hye

Surely, those who accuse chaste but careless believing (women), are cursed in this world and in the Hereafter, and there will be a great punishment for them.

Amatul Rahman Omar

Those who calumniate chaste, unwary, innocent believing women stand cursed in the present life and the Hereafter, and there awaits them a grievous punishment

Linda "iLham" Barto

Truly, those who slander virtuous women –even imprudent but believing women— are condemned in this life and in the hereafter. A grievous penalty awaits them.

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

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Indeed, those who [falsely] accuse chaste, unaware and believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter; and they will have a great punishmen

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Surely, those who accuse the independent innocent believing females, they will be cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and they will have a painful retribution

Hasan Al-Fatih 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 mightypunishment

Corpus.Quran

Indeed those who accuse the chaste women the unaware women (and) the believing women are cursed in the world and the Hereafter And for them (is) a punishment great

Faridul Haque

Indeed those who accuse the innocent virtuous, believing women – upon them is a curse in this world and in the Hereafter; and for them is a terrible punishment

Samy Mahdy

Surely those who accuse the fortified women, the inattentive, the believing women are cursed in the Dunya (this life) and the Hereafter. And for them a great torment.

Aisha Bewley

Those who accuse women who are chaste, but who are careless and yet have iman, are cursed both in this world and the Next World, and they will have a terrible punishment

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Surely, those who level a false charge against the chaste, natve and believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and for them there is a mighty punishmen

Maududi

Those who charge with slander those Believing women, who are chaste but simple souls, are accursed in this world and in the Hereafter: there is a great punishment for them

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Truly, those who accuse the ones who are free, unwary, chaste female believers were cursed in the present and the world to come and for them will be a serious punishment

Rashad 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.

Ali Ünal

Those who falsely accuse chaste women, who are unaware of devious ways of corruption and are believers, are cursed in the world and the Hereafter, and for them is a mighty punishment

Dr. Munir Munshey

Surely, cursed _ in this world and in the afterlife _ are those who level charges of immorality against the innocent and chaste believing women. There is a severe punishment for them

Arthur John 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 chastisemen

Bijan Moeinian

Those who falsely accuse the married women (who are pious believers,) have earned the curse of God in this life as well as in the Hereafter. They will be subjected to a horrible punishment

Muhammad 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 punishmen

John Medows 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

MunirMezyed2023

Surely, those who (falsely) accuse the chaste, unsuspecting, monotheistic women (of adultery) are cursed in this worldly life and in the Hereafter. Theirs will be an extremely severe punishment:

Hamid S. Aziz

Verily, those who slander (cast aspersions) on virtuous (or chaste) women who have been careless (indiscreet) but believing, shall be cursed in this world and the Hereafter; theirs will be an awful doo

Dr. Kamal Omar

Surely those who accuse Believing females, women completely unaware (of immoral acts), fully guarding their chastity — stand cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and for them is a great torment

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

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

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

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

Fode Drame

Truly those who accuse the chaste women, the women who are innocent minded about all kinds of evil, the believing women, they [the accusers] are cursed in this life and in the hereafter and for them is an awful punishment.

Munir Mezyed

Surely, those who (falsely) accuse the chaste (married woman), imprudent and monotheistic women (of adultery) are cursed in this ‘worldly life’ and the ‘Hereafter’. They will be subjected to an extremely severe punishment.

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Verily, those who spread accusations (about the character of) chaste believing women, who are (truly) pure (in their character)— Are cursed in this life, and in the Hereafter: And for them is a painful penalty—

Ahmed Hulusi

Those who live in their cocoons devoid of the knowledge of the reality and accuse the believing chaste women are most definitely cursed both in this world and the eternal life to come... There is a great suffering for them.

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Verily, those who falsely accuse chaste, believing women who are unaware of, and unacquainted (with, even the very idea of indecency and evil) are cursed in this world and in the Hereafter. And for them is woeful punishment

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Surely the ones who throw (accusations) upon women in wedlock that are heedless and believing will be cursed in the present (life) (Literally: the lowly "life"; i.e., the life of this world) and the Hereafter; and they will have a tremendous torment

Shabbir Ahmed

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))

Muhammad Asad

[But,] verily, those who [falsely, and without repentance,] accuse chaste women who may have been unthinkingly careless but have remained true to their faith, shall be rejected [from God’s grace] in this world as well as in the life to come: and awesome suffering awaits the

Mir Aneesuddin

And do not let those of you who possess grace and (financial) capability (to help), swear not to give to relatives and to the poor and the migrants in the way of Allah, and let them pardon and overlook. Do you not like that Allah should (also) protectively forgive you? And Allah is Protectively Forgiving, Merciful.