Quran 4 : 21

And how could you take it when surely has gone - one of you to another, and they have taken from you covenant strong?
وَكَيْفَ
Wakayfa
تَأْخُذُونَهُۥ
Taakhudhūnahu
وَقَدْ
Waqad
أَفْضَىٰ
Aafḍaāā
بَعْضُكُمْ
Baʿḍukum
إِلَىٰ
Iilaāā
بَعْضٍ
Baʿḍin
وَأَخَذْنَ
Waakhadhna
مِنكُم
Minkum
مِّيثَٰقًا
Mmīthaāqana
غَلِيظًا
Ghalīẓana

N J Dawood 2014

for how can you take it back when you have lain with each other and entered into a firm contract

Ahmed Ali

How could you do that having slept with one another, and when they had taken a solemn pledge from you

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

Muhammad Sarwar

How can you take it back when you have had intimate relations and made a solemn agreement with each other

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

Maududi

How can you take it away after each one has enjoyed the other, and they have taken a firm covenant from you

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

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

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

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

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

How could you take it back after having shared intimate relations and they received a solemn covenant from you?

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

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

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

Musharraf Hussain

How could you possibly take it after having enjoyed intimacy with each other? They took a solemn pledge from you

Aisha Bewley

How could you take it when you have been intimate with one another and they have made a binding contract with you?

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

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

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?

Ahmed Hulusi

How can you take it back after you have united with one another and you have given them your word (during marriage)?

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

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?

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

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

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

[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.

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

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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?.

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?

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

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

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?

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)?

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

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

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)

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?

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

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)

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

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

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)