But no place of repentance shall there be for those who do evil, until, when death is close to one of them, he saith, “Now verily am I turned to God;” nor to those who die unbelievers.  These! we have made ready for them a grievous torment!

O believers! it is not allowed you to be heirs of your wives against their will; nor to hinder them from marrying, in order to take from them part of the dowry you had given them, unless they have been guilty of undoubted lewdness; but associate kindly with them:  for if ye are estranged from them, haply ye are estranged from that in which God hath placed abundant good.

And if ye be desirous to exchange one wife for another, and have given one of them a talent, make no deduction from it.  Would ye take it by slandering her, and with manifest wrong?

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?

And marry not women whom your fathers have married:  for this is a shame, and hateful, and an evil way:  though what is past5 may be allowed.

Forbidden to you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your aunts, both on the father and mother’s side, and your nieces on the brother and sister’s side, and your foster-mothers, and your foster-sisters, and the mothers of your wives, and your step-daughters who are your wards, born of your wives to whom ye have gone in:  (but if ye have not gone in unto them, it shall be no sin in you to marry them;) and the wives of your sons who proceed out of your loins; and ye may not have two sisters; except where it is already done.  Verily, God is Indulgent, Merciful!

Forbidden to you also are married women, except those who are in your hands as slaves:  This is the law of God for you.  And it is allowed you, beside this, to seek out wives by means of your wealth, with modest conduct, and without fornication.  And give those with whom ye have cohabited their dowry.  This is the law.  But it shall be no crime in you to make agreements over and above the law.  Verily, God is Knowing, Wise!

And whoever of you is not rich enough to marry free believing women, then let him marry such of your believing maidens as have fallen into your hands as slaves; God well knoweth your faith.  Ye are sprung the one from the other.  Marry them, then, with the leave of their masters, and give them a fair dower:  but let them be chaste and free from fornication, and not entertainers of lovers.

If after marriage they commit adultery, then inflict upon them half the penalty enacted for free married women.  This law is for him among you who is afraid of doing wrong:6 but if ye abstain,7 it will be better for you.  And God is Lenient, Merciful.

God desireth to make this known to you, and to guide you into the ways of those who have been before you, and to turn Him unto you in mercy.  And God is Knowing, Wise!