Quran 4:21 Word by Word & Translations
4:21 Word by Word (2021)
4:21 Arabic
4:21 Transliteration
And how could you take it when surely has gone - one of you to another, and they have taken from you covenant strong?
4:21 Arabic
وَكَيْفَ تَأْخُذُونَهُۥ وَقَدْ أَفْضَىٰ بَعْضُكُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍ وَأَخَذْنَ مِنكُم مِّيثَٰقًا غَلِيظًا
4:21 Transliteration
Wakayfa ta/khuthoonahu waqad afda baAAdukum ila baAAdin waakhathna minkum meethaqan ghaleethan
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
And how can you take it when you have become intimate with each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant.
Abdel Haleem
How could you take it when this is unjust and a blatant sin? How could you take it when you have lain with each other and they have taken a solemn pledge from you
Abdul Hye
And how you could take it back when one of you has gone in to another (with happiness), and they have taken from you a firm pledge (of marriage)?
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
And how can ye take it back when one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have obtained from you a rigid bond
Ahmed Ali
How could you do that having slept with one another, and when they had taken a solemn pledge from you
Ahmed Hulusi
How can you take it back after you have united with one another and you have given them your word (during marriage)?
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
How you shall take it when each of you has already become unveiled before one another and they have taken from you a most firm covenant?
Aisha Bewley
How could you take it when you have been intimate with one another and they have made a binding contract with you?
Ali Ünal
Then, how could you take it back when you have gone in to each other, and they (the married women) have taken from you a most solemn pledge (of honoring their rights)
Ali Quli Qara'i
How could you take it back, when you have known each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant
Amatul Rahman Omar
And how can you take it when you have already lain with one another and they (- your wives) have bound you down to a firm and solemn covenant (by marriage)
Arthur John Arberry
How shall you take it, when each of you has been privily with the other, and they have taken from you a solemn compact
Bakhtiari Nejad
And how do you take it while you have been alone with each other (having sexual relationship), and they took a strong commitment (marriage contract) from you?
Bijan Moeinian
How can you even think about doing such a wrong thing when you offered her (whatever you offered as gift) with the most strong promise during the wedding
Bilal Muhammad 2018
And how could you take it when you have bonded with each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant
Corpus.Quran
And how could you take it when surely has gone one of you to another and they have taken from you covenant strong
Dr. Kamal Omar
And how could you take it back while one of you has gone in unto the other (in marital bond and relations), and (those who are wives to you) have obtained from you a written document (at the time of marriage, which is) firm (as evidence)
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
And how would you take it when one of you had sexual intercourse with the other and they (f) took from you an earnest solemn promise?
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
And how can you take it back whilst you have had marital relations with each other, and they have (also) taken a firm promise from you
Dr. Munir Munshey
How can you take anything back, after you have already consummated the relationship (and enjoyed each other)? She has secured from you a firm commitment
Edward Henry Palmer
How care ye take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a rigid compact
Faridul Haque
And how will you take it back whereas you have become unveiled before each other, and they have taken a strong pledge from you
Fode Drame
And how can you take it when indeed you have yielded unto one another and they [women] had taken with you a binding covenant?
George Sale
And how can ye take it, since the one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have received from you a firm covenant
Hamid S. Aziz
How can you take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a solemn contract
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
How can you take it back when you have reached one another (sexually) and they have taken from you a strong covenant
Hilali - Khan
And how could you take it (back) while you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a firm and strong covenant
Irving/Hegab
How can you hold it back when you have had intercourse with each other, and they have made a solemn agreement with you?
John Medows Rodwell
How, moreover, could ye take it, when one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have received from you a strict bond of union
Linda "iLham" Barto
How could you take away (a gift) after you had given yourselves to one another? She had already received a commitment from you.
Maududi
How can you take it away after each one has enjoyed the other, and they have taken a firm covenant from you
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And how can you take it when one of you has already gone in to the other and they have taken from you a strong covenant
Mir Aneesuddin
And how can you take it (back) when one of you has gone into the other and they have taken from you a strong pledge?
Mohammad Shafi
And how could you take it when you have had enjoyed conjugal relations with one another, and they had taken a firm pledge from you?h
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
And how do you take it and some of you to some had revealed and they (F) took from you a strong promise/covenant
Muhammad Asad
And how could you take it away after you have given yourselves to one another, and she has received a most solemn pledge from you
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
And how should you take it, and each of you has already gone privily with the other, (Literally: some of you have been privily with (some) and they have taken from you a solemn compact
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
How can ye take it (back) after one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have taken a strong pledge from you
Muhammad Sarwar
How can you take it back when you have had intimate relations and made a solemn agreement with each other
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
How can you take it when you have had access to each other and they have taken a firm covenant from you
Munir Mezyed
Would it possible for you to take it since both of you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you solemn covenant?
MunirMezyed2023
Would it possible for you to take it since both of you have gone in to each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?.
Musharraf Hussain
How could you possibly take it after having enjoyed intimacy with each other? They took a solemn pledge from you
Mustafa Khattab 2018
And how could you take it back after having enjoyed each other intimately and she has taken from you a firm commitment?
Mustaqim
And how can you take it when one of you has already spent time with the other and they have taken from you a binding promise?
N J Dawood 2014
for how can you take it back when you have lain with each other and entered into a firm contract
Rashad Khalifa
How could you take it back, after you have been intimate with each other, and they had taken from you a solemn pledge?
Safi Kaskas
How could you take it away after you have been intimate with one another, and she has received a solemn pledge from you?
Samy Mahdy
And how do you take it, and already some of you conduce to some others, and they have taken from you a coarse charter?
Shabbir Ahmed
And how could you take the marital gift back from her after you have lived intimately with each other and after she has taken from you a very Solemn Pledge of the marital contract
Shakir
And how can you take it when one of you has already gone in to the other and they have made with you a firm covenant
Sher Ali
And how can you take it when one of you may have consorted with the other, and they (the women) have taken from you a strong covenant
Syed Vickar Ahamed
And how could you take it (back) when you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a holy promise
T.B.Irving
How can you hold it back when you have had intercourse with each other, and they have made a solemn agreement with you?
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
How could you take it back after having shared intimate relations and they received a solemn covenant from you?
Talal Itani (2012)
And how can you take it back, when you have been intimate with one another, and they have received from you a solid commitment
The Study Quran
And how can you take it back, when you have lain with one another and they have made with you a solemn covenant
The Wise Quran
And how can you take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a strong covenant?
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
And how could you take it while you have gone in unto each other and they have taken from you a solemn covenant
Wahiduddin Khan
How can you take it when you have been intimate with one another, and she has taken a solemn pledge from you
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And how could ye take it when ye have gone in unto each other, and they have Taken from you a solemn covenant