The Quran

سورة الرَّحمٰن

Surah Al-Rahmân 55:56

The Most Gracious · Verse 56 of 78

فِيهِنَّ قَاصِرَاتُ الطَّرْفِ لَمْ يَطْمِثْهُنَّ إِنْسٌ قَبْلَهُمْ وَلَا جَانٌّ

Abdul Mannan Omar

There they shall have (chaste and modest) maidens restraining their glances (to look at them only), whom (in this state) neither man nor jinn has ever touched before them.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

In them will be (Maidens), chaste, restraining their glances, whom no man or Jinn before them has touched;-

Ahmed Ali

In them maidens with averted glances, undeflowered by man or by jinn before them, --

12 more translations

Ali Unal

In them are pure, chaste-eyed spouses (whose glances are fixed on their spouses only), whom no man or jinn has touched before.

Daryabadi

Therein shall be those of refraining looks whom before them hath deflowered neither man nor jinn.

Faridul Haque

Upon thrones are the women who do not gaze at men except their husbands, and before them, are untouched by any man or jinn.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Therein are those restraining their glances, whom no man nor jinni has touched before them.

Maulvi Sher Ali

Therein will also be chaste maidens restraining their glances, whom neither man nor jinn will have touched before them -

Muhammad Asad

In these [gardens] will be mates of modest gaze, whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then.

Muhammad Musin Khan

Wherein both will be those (maidens) restraining their glances upon their husbands, whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them.

Muhammad Pickthall

Therein are those of modest gaze, whom neither man nor jinni will have touched before them.

Muhammad Sarwar

There will be bashful maidens untouched by mankind or jinn before.

Muhammed ali Shakir

In them shall be those who restrained their eyes; before them neither man nor jinni shall have touched them.

Rashad Khalifa

Their beautiful mates were never touched by any human or jinn.

Shabbir Ahmed

Therein women have a modest gaze, never touched by human vices or evil prompting.