Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And how can you take it after you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a solemn agreement?

وَكَيْفَ تَأْخُذُونَهُ وَقَدْ اَفْضٰى بَعْضُكُمْ اِلٰى بَعْضٍ وَاَخَذْنَ مِنْكُمْ م۪يثَاقاً غَل۪يظاً
Wakayfa ta/khuthoonahu waqad afdabaAAdukum ila baAAdin waakhathnaminkum meethaqan ghaleetha
#wordmeaningroot
1wakayfaAnd howكيف
2takhudhūnahucould you take itاخذ
3waqadwhen surely
4afḍāhas gone فضو
5baʿḍukumone of youبعض
6ilāto
7baʿḍinanotherبعض
8wa-akhadhnaand they have takenاخذ
9minkumfrom you
10mīthāqancovenantوثق
11ghalīẓanstrongغلظ
  • Aisha Bewley

    How could you take it when you have been intimate with one another and they have made a binding contract with you?

  • Progressive Muslims

    And how can you take it when you have become intimate with each other, and the women have taken from you a strong covenant.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And how could you take the marital gift back from her after you have lived intimately with each other and after she has taken from you a very Solemn Pledge of the marital contract?

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And how can you take it after you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a solemn agreement?

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    And how can you take it when you have become intimate with each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    How can you take it when you have become intimate with each other, and the women have taken from you a strong covenant?

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    How could you take it back, after you have been intimate with each other, and they had taken from you a solemn pledge?

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    How could you do that having slept with one another, and when they had taken a solemn pledge from you?

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    And how could you take it while you have gone in unto each other and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?

  • Muhammad Asad

    And how could you take it away after you have given yourselves to one another, and she has received a most solemn pledge from you?

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    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?

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    How can you take it away after each one has enjoyed the other, and they have taken a firm covenant from you?*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    And how could you reclaim it when you have already entered into matrimony and communion with one another and your vows and solemn promise of allegiance and good will have been pledged to them before Allah.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    How can you even think about doing such a wrong thing when you offered her (whatever you offered as gift) with the most strong promise during the wedding?

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And how could you take it (back) while you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a firm and strong covenant?

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And how could ye take it when ye have gone in unto each other, and they have Taken from you a solemn covenant?

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    And how could you take it back after having enjoyed each other intimately and she has taken from you a firm commitment? 

  • Taqi Usmani

    How can you take it when you have had access to each other and they have taken a firm covenant from you?

  • Abdul Haleem

    How could you take it when this is unjust and a blatant sin? How could you take it when you have lain with each other and they have taken a solemn pledge from you?

  • Arthur John Arberry

    How shall you take it, when each of you has been privily with the other, and they have taken from you a solemn compact?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    How care ye take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a rigid compact?

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    How can you take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a solemn contract?

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And how should you take it, and each of you has already gone privily with the other, (Literally: some of you have been privily with (some) and they have taken from you a solemn compact?

  • George Sale

    And how can ye take it, since the one of you hath gone in unto the other, and they have received from you a firm covenant?

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And how could you take it (back) when you have gone in unto each other, and they have taken from you a holy promise?

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    And how can you take it when you have already lain with one another and they (- your wives) have bound you down to a firm and solemn covenant (by marriage)?

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    How could you take it back, when you have known each other, and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?