o each other, and
they have Taken from you a solemn covenant?

P: 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?

S: 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?

004.022
Y: And marry not women whom your fathers married,- except what is past:
It was shameful and odious,- an abominable custom indeed.

P: And marry not those women whom your fathers married, except what hath
already happened (of that nature) in the past. Lo! it was ever lewdness
and abomination, and an evil way.

S: And marry not woman whom your fathers married, except what has
already passed; this surely is indecent and hateful, and it is an evil
way.

004.023
Y: Prohibited to you (For marriage) are:- Your mothers, daughters,
sisters; father's sisters, Mother's sisters; brother's daughters,
sister's daughters; foster-mothers (Who gave you suck), foster-sisters;
your wives' mothers; your step-daughters under your guardianship, born
of your wives to whom ye have gone in,- no prohibition if ye have not
gone in;- (Those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your
loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time, except for
what is past; for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful;-

P: Forbidden unto you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your
sisters, and your father's sisters, and your mother's sisters, and your
brother's daughters and your sister's daughters, and your
foster-mothers, and your foster-sisters, and your mothers-in-law, and
your step-daughters who are under your protection (born) of your women
unto whom ye have gone in - but if ye have not gone in unto them,
then it is no sin for you (to marry their daughters) - and the wives
of your sons who (spring) from your own loins. And (it is forbidden
unto you) that ye should have two sisters together, except what hath
already happened (of that nature) in the past. Lo! Allah is ever
Forgiving, Merciful.

S: Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters
and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers' daughters
and sisters' daughters and your mothers that have suckled you and your
foster-sisters and mothers of your wives and your step-daughters who
are in your guardianship, (born) of your wives to whom you have gone
in, but if you have not gone in to them, there is no blame on you (in
mar