When you said to him whom Allah had blessed and you had favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself, and fear Allah,’ and you were concealing within yourself what Allah should reveal, fearing other men; and Allah has better right for you to fear him. So when Zaid had accomplished what he would of her, then We gave her in marriage to you, so that there should not be any fault in the believers, touching the wives of their adopted sons, when they have accomplished what they would of them; and Allah’s commandment must be performed.
Ulipomwambia huyu ambaye Mungu amembariki na wewe umependelea kwamba, ‘Baki na mke wako, na mche Mungu’, na ulikuwa unaficha kitu ambacho Mungu angekiweka wazi, kwa ajili ya kuhofia watu wengine; na Mungu ana haki zaidi ya kuabudiwa na wewe. Kwa hiyo Zaid alipokamilisha kile alichokitaka kwake [Zainab], ndipo tulipomtoa aolewe na wewe, ili kwamba kusiwe na kosa lolote miongoni mwa waumini, kugusa wake wa watoto wao waliowaasili, wanapokuwa wamekamilisha yale ambayo walipenda kuyafanya kwao; na amri ya Mungu lazima itimizwe.