Prohibited to you [for marriage] are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your father's sisters, your mother's sisters, your brother's daughters, your sister's daughters, your [milk] mothers who nursed you, your sisters through nursing, your wives' mothers, and your step-daughters under your guardianship [born] of your wives unto whom you have gone in. But if you have not gone in unto them, there is no sin upon you. And [also prohibited are] the wives of your sons who are from your [own] loins, and that you take [in marriage] two sisters simultaneously, except for what has already occurred.1 Indeed, Allāh is ever Forgiving and Merciful.
وَعَمَّٰتُكُمۡand your father's sisterswaʿammātukum
وَخَٰلَٰتُكُمۡand your mother's sisterswakhālātukum
وَبَنَاتُand daughterswabanātu
ٱلۡأَخِ(of) brothersl-akhi
وَبَنَاتُand daughterswabanātu
ٱلۡأُخۡتِ(of) sistersl-ukh'ti
وَأُمَّهَٰتُكُمُand (the) motherswa-ummahātukumu
ٱلَّٰتِيٓwhoallātī
أَرۡضَعۡنَكُمۡnursed youarḍaʿnakum
وَأَخَوَٰتُكُمand your sisterswa-akhawātukum
مِّنَfrommina
ٱلرَّضَٰعَةِthe nursingl-raḍāʿati
وَأُمَّهَٰتُand motherswa-ummahātu
نِسَآئِكُمۡ(of) your wivesnisāikum
وَرَبَٰٓئِبُكُمُand your step daughterswarabāibukumu
ٱلَّٰتِيwhoallātī
فِي(are) infī
حُجُورِكُمyour guardianshipḥujūrikum
مِّنofmin
نِّسَآئِكُمُyour womennisāikumu
ٱلَّٰتِيwhomallātī
دَخَلۡتُمyou had relationsdakhaltum
بِهِنَّwith thembihinna
فَإِنbut iffa-in
لَّمۡnotlam
تَكُونُواْyou hadtakūnū
دَخَلۡتُمrelationsdakhaltum
بِهِنَّwith thembihinna
فَلَاthen (there is) nofalā
جُنَاحَsinjunāḥa
عَلَيۡكُمۡon youʿalaykum
وَحَلَٰٓئِلُAnd wiveswaḥalāilu
أَبۡنَآئِكُمُ(of) your sonsabnāikumu
ٱلَّذِينَthose whoalladhīna
مِنۡ(are) frommin
أَصۡلَٰبِكُمۡyour loinsaṣlābikum
وَأَنand thatwa-an
تَجۡمَعُواْyou gather togethertajmaʿū
بَيۡنَ[between]bayna
ٱلۡأُخۡتَيۡنِtwo sistersl-ukh'tayni
إِلَّاexceptillā
مَاwhatmā
قَدۡhasqad
سَلَفَۗpassed beforesalafa
إِنَّIndeedinna
ٱللَّهَAllahl-laha
كَانَiskāna
غَفُورٗاOft-Forgivingghafūran
رَّحِيمٗاMost-Mercifulraḥīman
Tafsir
Allah has prohibited you to marry your mothers and grandmothers, your daughters and granddaughters, your sisters and half-sisters, your aunts and great aunts, your nieces and their children, your milk-mothers who nursed you and your sisters through nursing, the mothers of your wives (whether you have consummated the marriage or not), and the daughters of your wives by someone else (who were mostly raised in your houses, and also those who were not, if you have consummated the marriage; but if you have not, then there is nothing wrong with marrying their daughters). You are also prohibited to marry those who have been married to your own sons, even if they did not consummate the marriage, and this includes the wives of your sons through milk-kinship (nursing). It is prohibited for you to marry two sisters who are related by blood or by nursing, except if this happened in the time of ignorance before Islam, in which case Allah has forgiven it. Allah is Forgiving and Compassionate to His servants who repent to Him. In the traditions of the Prophet it is also confirmed that it is prohibited to marry a woman and her aunt at the same time.