English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
And who guard their chastity —
English - Five Volume Translation
And who guard their chastity—
Important Words:
فروجھم (their chastity) is the plural of فرج (farjun) which is derived from فرج (faraja). فرج الشیء means, he opened the thing so as to make a gap or breach. فرج means, the pudendum or pudenda; the part or parts of a person which it is indecent to expose; or the external portion of the organs of generation of a man or a woman; an open, wide space; the part between the two sides of a valley, i.e. entrance; a frontier of access to a country (Lane & Aqrab).
Commentary:
This verse refers to the fourth stage in the spiritual development of man. It indeed marks a very high stage. The lesson is writ large on the pages of history that many a nation has gone to rack and ruin because they abandoned themselves to immoral practices. Sexual morality plays a very important part in the building up of the national character of a people. Islam is very keen on this point. It regards the guarding of sexual chastity as one of the most sacred duties of a believer. It has closed the door to all those avenues which lead to moral laxity. The word فرج signifies those avenues through which evil thoughts find access to the human heart. It covers all parts and organs of the body, i.e. eyes, ears, tongue, hands, feet etc. Islam looks with extreme disfavour upon all those practices which are calculated to excite human passions and which are so popular in the west or among people enamoured of western ways of life.
The verse marks a still higher stage in the spiritual development of man than the one mentioned in v. 5 above. It seems much easier to spend one’s money and property in the way of God, to which reference has been made in the preceding verse, than to overcome one’s carnal passions when they once get excited. Man has suffered more from the gratification of his sensual appetites than perhaps from any other evil. The curbing of carnal desires requires a greater mental discipline than the spending of wealth in good causes.
English - Short Commentary Translation
And who guard their chastity—
اردو ترجمہ مرزا طاہر احمد خلیفة المسیح الرابعؒ
اور وہ جو اپنی شرم گاہوں کی حفاظت کرنے والے ہیں۔
French
Et qui préservent leurs parties intimes –
German
und die ihre Sinnlichkeit im Zaum halten –
Italian
e custodiscono la propria castità,
Spanish
Y que preservan su castidad,
اردو تفسیرِ صغیر
اور جو اپنی شرم گاہوں کی حفاظت کرتے ہیں۔
اردو ترجمہ مودودی
اپنی شرمگاہوں کی حفاظت کرتے ہیں
English - Sahih
And they who guard their private parts
اردو ترجمہ احمد علی
اور جو اپنی شرم گاہوں کی حفاظت کرنے والے ہیں
English - Talal Itani
And those who [they] of their modesty (are) guardians
English - Arberry
and guard their private parts
English - Maududi
who strictly guard their private parts
English - Five Volume Commentary *
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Important Words:
فروجھم (their chastity) is the plural of فرج (farjun) which is derived from فرج (faraja). فرج الشیء means, he opened the thing so as to make a gap or breach. فرج means, the pudendum or pudenda; the part or parts of a person which it is indecent to expose; or the external portion of the organs of generation of a man or a woman; an open, wide space; the part between the two sides of a valley, i.e. entrance; a frontier of access to a country (Lane & Aqrab).
Commentary:
This verse refers to the fourth stage in the spiritual development of man. It indeed marks a very high stage. The lesson is writ large on the pages of history that many a nation has gone to rack and ruin because they abandoned themselves to immoral practices. Sexual morality plays a very important part in the building up of the national character of a people. Islam is very keen on this point. It regards the guarding of sexual chastity as one of the most sacred duties of a believer. It has closed the door to all those avenues which lead to moral laxity. The word فرج signifies those avenues through which evil thoughts find access to the human heart. It covers all parts and organs of the body, i.e. eyes, ears, tongue, hands, feet etc. Islam looks with extreme disfavour upon all those practices which are calculated to excite human passions and which are so popular in the west or among people enamoured of western ways of life.
The verse marks a still higher stage in the spiritual development of man than the one mentioned in v. 5 above. It seems much easier to spend one’s money and property in the way of God, to which reference has been made in the preceding verse, than to overcome one’s carnal passions when they once get excited. Man has suffered more from the gratification of his sensual appetites than perhaps from any other evil. The curbing of carnal desires requires a greater mental discipline than the spending of wealth in good causes.
English - Short Commentary Notes *
English - Pickthall
And who guard their modesty -
English - Muhammad Ali ra
And who restrain their sexual passions --
English - Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan ra
Who safeguard their chastity —