Surah 4: An-Nisa
The Holy Qur’an
Holy Qur’an 4:1
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:2
O ye people! fear your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many men and women; and fear Allah, in Whose name you appeal to one another, and fear Him particularly respecting ties of relationship. Verily, Allah watches over you.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:3
And give to the orphans their property and exchange not the bad for the good, and devour not their property with your own. Surely, it is a great sin.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:4
And if you fear that you will not be fair in dealing with the orphans, then marry of women as may be agreeable to you, two, or three, or four; and if you fear you will not deal justly, then marry only one or what your right hands possess. That is the nearest way for you to avoid injustice.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:5
And give the women their dowries willingly. But if they, of their own pleasure, remit to you a part thereof, then enjoy it as something pleasant and wholesome.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:6
And give not to the foolish your property which Allah has made for you a means of support; but feed them therewith and clothe them and speak to them words of kind advice.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:7
And prove the orphans until they attain the age of marriage; then, if you find in them sound judgment, deliver to them their property; and devour it not in extravagance and haste against their growing up. And whoso is rich, let him abstain; and whoso is poor, let him eat thereof with equity. And when you deliver to them their property, then call witnesses in their presence. And Allah is sufficient as a Reckoner.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:8
For men is a share of that which parents and near relations leave; and for women is a share of that which parents and near relations leave, whether it be little or much—a determined share.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:9
And when other relations and orphans and the poor are present at the division of heritage, give them something therefrom and speak to them words of kindness.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:10
And let those fear Ged who, if they should leave behind them their own weak offspring, would be anxious for them. Let them, therefore, fear Allah and let them say the right word.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:11
Surely, they who devour the property of orphans unjustly, only swallow fire into their bellies, and they shall burn in a blazing fire.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:12
Allah commands you concerning your children: a male shall have as much as the share of two females; but if there be females only, numbering more than two, then they shall have two-thirds of what the deceased leaves; and if there be one, she shall have the half. And his parents shall have each of them a sixth of the inheritance, if he have a child; but if he have no child and his parents be his heirs, then his mother shall have a third; and if he have brothers and sisters, then his mother shall have a sixth, after the payment of any bequests he may have bequeathed or of debt. Your fathers and your children, you know not which of them is nearest to you in benefit. This fixing of portions is from Allah. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing, Wise.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:13
And you shall have half of that which your wives leave, if they have no child; but if they have a child, then you shall have a fourth of that which they leave, after the payment of any bequests they may have bequeathed or of debt. And they shall have a fourth of that which you leave, if you have no child; but if you have a child, then they shall have an eighth of that which you leave, after the payment of any bequests you may have bequeathed or of debt. And if there be a man or a woman whose heritage is to be divided and he or she has neither parent nor child, and he or she has a brother or a sister, then each one of them shall have a sixth. But if they be more than that, then they shall be equal sharers in onethird, after the payment of any bequests which may have been bequeathed or of debt, without prejudice to the debt. This is an injunction from Allah, and Allah is All-Knowing, Forbearing.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:14
These are the limits set by Allah; and whoso obeys Allah and His Messenger, He will make him enter Gardens through which streams flow; therein shall they abide; and that is a great triumph.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:15
And whoso disobeys Allah and His Messenger and transgresses His limits, He will make him enter into Fire; therein shall he abide; and he shall have an humiliating punishment.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:16
And those of your women who are guilty of lewdness—call to witness four of you against them; and if they bear witness, then confine them to the houses until death overtake them or Allah open for them a way.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:17
And if two men from among you are guilty of it, punish them both. And if they repent and amend, then leave them alone; surely, Allah is Oft-Returning with compassion and is Merciful.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:18
Verily, Allah undertakes to accept the repentance of only those who do evil ignorantly and then repent soon after. These are they to whom Allah turns with mercy; and Allah is All-Knowing, Wise.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:19
There is no acceptance of repentance for those who continue to do evil until, when death faces one of them, he says, ‘I do repent now;’ nor for those who die disbelievers. It is these for whom We have prepared a painful punishment.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)
Holy Qur’an 4:20
O ye who believe! it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will; nor should you detain them wrongfully that you may take away part of that which you have given them, except that they be guilty of a flagrant evil; and consort with them in kindness; and if you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing wherein Allah has placed much good.
Translation: Maulawi Sher Ali (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat)