Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And do not commit adultery -for, behold, it is an abomination and an evil way
Arthur John Arberry
And approach not fornication; surely it is an indecency, and evil as a way
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening the road (to other evils)
Arabic
وَلَا تَقۡرَبُوا۟ ٱلزِّنَىٰۤۖ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فَـٰحِشَةࣰ وَسَاۤءَ سَبِیلࣰا ٣٢
Transliteration (2021)
walā taqrabū l-zinā innahu kāna fāḥishatan wasāa sabīla