Surah Al-Tahreem English Translation & Roman Transliteration
66. Surah Al-Tahreem (The Prohibition)
(This Surah is Madani, containing 12 verses and 2 sections)
Allah’s Name to commence with, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
66:1. O Conveyor of the unseen news (i.e., Prophet), why are you making unlawful for yourself that which Allah has made lawful for you? You wish to please (some of your) wives. And Allah is the Most Forgiving, the Most Merciful.
66:2. Indeed, Allah has ordained expiation for you for your oaths; and Allah is your Master; and Allah is the All-Knowing, the Wise.
66:3. And when the Prophet (Muhammad) disclosed a matter in confidence to one of his wives, then when she happened to mention it and Allah made it known to the Prophet, so the Prophet told her part of it and held back a part; then when the Prophet informed her about it (i.e., disclosing the secret), she said, ‘Who informed your respected self?!’ He said, ‘The All-Knowing, the All-Aware has informed me.’
66:4. (O) you two wives of the Prophet (Muhammad), if you turn towards Allah with repentance, so your hearts have certainly moved away a little; and if you (two) strengthen each other against him, so Allah is indeed his Helper, and Jibra’eel and the virtuous believers; and after that, the angels are also (his) supporters.
66:5. If he divorces you, it is close that his Lord will give him wives better than you in your place; submissive, believing, obedient, repenting, worshiping, fasting, widows, and virgins.
66:6. O believers! Save yourselves and your families from the Fire, the fuel of which are humans and stones; appointed over it are extremely powerful angels who do not refuse the command of Allah, and they only do what they are commanded.
66:7. (The angels appointed over Hell will say) ‘O disbelievers! Do not make excuses this Day; you will only be recompensed for what you used to do.’
66:8. O believers! Repent to Allah with such repentance that becomes advice for the future; it is close that your Lord may remove your sins and admit you into Gardens beneath which rivers flow on the Day when Allah will not disgrace the Prophet and the believers along with him. Their light will be running ahead of them and (running) on their right; they will submit, ‘O our Lord, complete our light for us, and forgive us; indeed, You have power over all things.’
66:9. O Conveyor of the unseen news (i.e., Prophet), strive against the (unruly) disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them; and their abode is Hell, and what an evil outcome.
66:10. Allah explains the example of the disbelievers: the wife of Nooh and the wife of Loot. They were bound in marriage to two of Our bondsmen deserving Our closeness, then they (i.e., the wives of these Prophets) betrayed them, so they (both) did not benefit from them (i.e., these two Prophets) against (the punishment of) Allah in the least. And it was stated that ‘Both of you women enter Hell along with others who enter (Hell).’
66:11. And Allah explains an example of the Muslims: the wife of Fir’awn. When she prayed, ‘O my Lord! Build a house for me in Your closeness in Paradise, and rescue me from Fir’awn and his actions, and rescue me from the unjust people.’
66:12. And (the example) of Maryam, the daughter of Imraan, who guarded her chastity. We henceforth breathed into her (through Jibra’eel) a spirit from Ourselves, and she testified to the Words of her Lord and His Books and was amongst the obedient.