| Order | Occurrence | Arabic | Without diacritics | Pronunciation | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An-Nisa Verse 24 (4:24:1) | وَالْمُحْصَنَاتُ | والمحصنات | vel-muhsanâtu | And (prohibited are) the ones who are married | ح ص ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess:(537) Thus hath Allah ordained (Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your property,- desiring chastity, not lust, (538)seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers (at least)(539) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree Mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and Allah is All-knowing, All-wise.* | |||||
| 2 | An-Nisa Verse 25 (4:25:8) | الْمُحْصَنَاتِ | المحصنات | l-muhsanâti | the free chaste | ح ص ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women, they may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess:(540) And Allah hath full knowledge about your faith. Ye are one from another: Wed them with the leave of their owners, and give them their dowers, according to what is reasonable: They should be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours: when they are taken in wedlock, if they fall into shame, their punishment is half that for free women. This (permission) is for those among you who fear sin; but it is better for you that ye practise self-restraint. And Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.* | |||||
| 3 | An-Nisa Verse 25 (4:25:44) | الْمُحْصَنَاتِ | المحصنات | l-muhsanâti | the free chaste women | ح ص ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women, they may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess:(540) And Allah hath full knowledge about your faith. Ye are one from another: Wed them with the leave of their owners, and give them their dowers, according to what is reasonable: They should be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours: when they are taken in wedlock, if they fall into shame, their punishment is half that for free women. This (permission) is for those among you who fear sin; but it is better for you that ye practise self-restraint. And Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.* | |||||
| 4 | Al-Ma'idah Verse 5 (5:5:14) | وَالْمُحْصَنَاتُ | والمحصنات | vel-muhsanâtu | And the chaste women | ح ص ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | This day are (all) things good and pure made lawful unto you. The food of the People of the Book(699) is lawful unto you and yours is lawful unto them. (Lawful unto you in marriage) are (not only) chaste women who are believers, but chaste women among the People of the Book,(700) revealed before your time,- when ye give them their due dowers, and desire chastity, not lewdness, nor secret intrigues if any one rejects faith,(701) fruitless is his work, and in the Hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good).* | |||||
| 5 | Al-Ma'idah Verse 5 (5:5:17) | وَالْمُحْصَنَاتُ | والمحصنات | vel-muhsanâtu | and the chaste women | ح ص ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | This day are (all) things good and pure made lawful unto you. The food of the People of the Book(699) is lawful unto you and yours is lawful unto them. (Lawful unto you in marriage) are (not only) chaste women who are believers, but chaste women among the People of the Book,(700) revealed before your time,- when ye give them their due dowers, and desire chastity, not lewdness, nor secret intrigues if any one rejects faith,(701) fruitless is his work, and in the Hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good).* | |||||
| 6 | An-Nur Verse 4 (24:4:3) | الْمُحْصَنَاتِ | المحصنات | l-muhsanâti | the chaste women | ح ص ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations),- flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their evidence(2958) ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors;-* | |||||
| 7 | An-Nur Verse 23 (24:23:4) | الْمُحْصَنَاتِ | المحصنات | l-muhsanâti | the chaste women | ح ص ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Those who slander chaste women, indiscreet but believing,(2975) are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter: for them is a grievous Penalty,-* | |||||