The Clans
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[33:55]
[However,] it is no sin for them [to appear freely] before their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their womenfolk, or such [male slaves] as their right hands may possess.
But [always, O wives of the Prophet,] remain conscious of God – for, behold, God is witness unto everything.

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* v.55 : I.e., the wives of the Prophet (connecting with the injunction, in verse 53 above, that they should be spoken to “from behind a screen”).
* This interpolation is conditioned by the feminine gender of the subsequent plural imperative ittaqīna.