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Muhammad Asad   
and who are mindful of their chastity
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
And they are the ones who preserve their private parts
Safi Kaskas   
Those who guard their chastity,

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Arabic   
وَٱلَّذِینَ هُمۡ لِفُرُوجِهِمۡ حَـٰفِظُونَ ۝٢٩
Transliteration (2021)   
wa-alladhīna hum lifurūjihim ḥāfiẓūn
Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more   
And those who [they] their modesty (are) guardians,

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
and who are mindful of their chastity
M. M. Pickthall   
And those who preserve their chastit
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
And those who guard their chastity
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
and those who guard their chastity
Safi Kaskas   
Those who guard their chastity,
Wahiduddin Khan   
those who preserve their chastit
Shakir   
And those who guard their private parts
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
Those, they are ones who guard their private parts,
T.B.Irving   
and the ones who preserve their chastity,
Abdul Hye   
those who guard their chastity (private parts from illegal sex),
The Study Quran   
those who guard their private parts
Talal Itani & AI (2024)   
And those who guard their purity.
Talal Itani (2012)   
And those who guard their chastity
Dr. Kamal Omar   
and those who: they, regarding their private sexual parts are protectors —
M. Farook Malik   
and guard their private parts
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
And they are the ones who preserve their private parts
Muhammad Sarwar   
who guard their carnal desire
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
and those who guard their private parts
Shabbir Ahmed   
----- Those men and women who preserve their chastity
Dr. Munir Munshey   
(Successful are) those who rein in their sexuality
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
And those who guard their chastity (and sexuality)
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
And those who guard their private part
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)   
And they maintain their chastity.
Abdel Haleem   
who guard their chastit
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
And those who of their private parts are guards
Ahmed Ali   
And those who guard their sex except from their wives and women slaves of ol
Aisha Bewley   
those who guard their private parts
Ali Ünal   
And those who strictly guard their private parts, and their chastity and modesty
Ali Quli Qara'i   
and those who guard their private part
Hamid S. Aziz   
And those who guard their chastity
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
and those who guard their private parts,
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
And those who guard their chastity
Musharraf Hussain   
Who guard their sexual purity,
Maududi   
and those who guard their private parts
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
And those who keep covered their private parts
Mohammad Shafi   
And those that guard their chastit

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
And those who guard their private parts.
Rashad Khalifa   
They keep their chastity.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah   
who guard their private
Maulana Muhammad Ali   
And those who restrain their sexual passions
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira   
And those who to their genital parts (they are) protecting/guarding
Bijan Moeinian   
The patient ones are those who do not engage in sexual activities except…
Faridul Haque   
And those who protect their private organs (from adultery)
Sher Ali   
And those who guard their private parts
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
And those who safeguard their private parts
Amatul Rahman Omar   
(Different as well is the case of) those who guard their private parts (by restraining their passions)
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
And those who guard their chastity (i.e. private parts from illegal sexual acts)

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
and guard their private part
George Sale   
And who abstain from the carnal knowledg
Edward Henry Palmer   
and those who guard their private parts
John Medows Rodwell   
And who control their desires
N J Dawood (2014)   
who restrain their carnal desir

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame   
And those who safeguard their chastity.
Munir Mezyed   
And those who guard their chastity
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher   
And who guard their chastity,
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
They guard their modesty.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation   
and those who preserve their private parts,
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
and the ones who preserve their chastity,
Samy Mahdy   
And those who are for their genitalia conservers.
Ahmed Hulusi   
They are those who guard their sexual organs from excessiveness.
Mir Aneesuddin   
and those who guard their private parts
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim   
e. Who guard their purity and refrain from unlawful congress
The Wise Quran   
And those who they are guardians to their private parts,

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
And those who guard their chastity
OLD Literal Word for Word   
And those who [they] their modesty (are) guardians
OLD Transliteration   
Waallatheena hum lifuroojihim hafithoona