S:  And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known; and turn to Allah all of you, O believers! so that you may be successful.

024.032 Y:  Marry those among you who are single, or the virtuous ones among yourselves, male or female:  if they are in poverty, Allah will give them means out of His grace:  for Allah encompasseth all, and he knoweth all things.

P:  And marry such of you as are solitary and the pious of your slaves and maid-servants.  If they be poor, Allah will enrich them of His bounty.  Allah is of ample means, Aware.

S:  And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves; if they are needy, Allah will make them free from want out of His grace; and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing.

024.033 Y:  Let those who find not the wherewithal for marriage keep themselves chaste, until Allah gives them means out of His grace.  And if any of your slaves ask for a deed in writing (to enable them to earn their freedom for a certain sum), give them such a deed if ye know any good in them:  yea, give them something yourselves out of the means which Allah has given to you.  But force not your maids to prostitution when they desire chastity, in order that ye may make a gain in the goods of this life.  But if anyone compels them, yet, after such compulsion, is Allah, Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful (to them),

P:  And let those who cannot find a match keep chaste till Allah give them independence by His grace.  And such of your slaves as seek a writing (of emancipation), write it for them if ye are aware of aught of good in them, and bestow upon them of the wealth of Allah which He hath bestowed upon you.  Force not your slave-girls to whoredom that ye may seek enjoyment of the life of the world, if they would preserve their chastity.  And if one force them, then (unto them), after their compulsion, lo!  Allah will be Forgiving, Merciful.

S:  And let those who do not find the means to marry keep chaste until Allah makes them free from want out of His grace.  And (as for) those who ask for a writing from among those whom your right hands possess, give them the writing if you know any good in them, and give them of the wealth of Allah which He has given you; and do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, when they desire to keep chaste, in order to seek the frail good of this world’s life; and whoever compels them, then surely after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.