Surah Mu’minun Ayat 5 in Arabic Text
English Translation
Here you can read various translations of verse 5
And they who guard their private parts
Who abstain from sex,
who strictly guard their private parts
And those who guard their chastity (i.e. private parts, from illegal sexual acts)
And who guard their modesty –
And the ones who are preservers of their private parts
who guard their chastity
Quran 23 Verse 5 Explanation
For those looking for commentary to help with the understanding of Surah Mu’minun ayat 5, we’ve provided two Tafseer works below. The first is the tafseer of Abul Ala Maududi, the second is of Ibn Kathir.
Ala-Maududi
(23:5) who strictly guard their private parts[6]
6. They are modest in every sense of the word. They are free from sex abuse and sex perversion. They are so modest that they even conceal those parts of their bodies which the law forbids to expose before others. For explanation, see (E.Ns 30 and 32 of Surah An-Noor).
Ibn-Kathir
The tafsir of Surah Al-Muminun verse 5 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Muminun ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 11.
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