1  Now, my beloved, these are the things I tell you that you should look for in a wife.
2  If she is young, she should be a virgin.
3  If she is not, she should tell you so.
4  If  you find a woman desirable, and she tells you "I am not a virgin, I have known men, but to you I will be faithful," then if you feel she is of good character, and will keep her word, she is acceptable.
5  But no woman should say she is a virgin if she is not.  For this is deception, and Allah does not like deceivers.
6  Now, if a woman is widowed, and has no children, and she is desirable, it is appropriate to marry her.
7  As long as she pledges loyalty to your house she cannot remain loyal to her old husband's house, and, to your house, at the same time.
8  If she is to come into your house, she must sever her bonds with them, and be faithful and obediant to you.
9  She cannot have two loyalties.
10  But if she has inheritance and income from that family, other than charity, that should continue to her.  For it is hers.
11  If a man should go into the market and buy a woman that is a slave, and take her into his  house, and give her children, that woman is no longer his property, but his wife.
12  If he gives her children not, he may sell her again.  But once she has bore him a child she can no longer be called servant, but must be called wife.  Allah will have nothing else!
13  If a man takes a heathen for wife, someone from outside The Faith, she must accept The Faith before she enters into his house.  If she does not, then a man cannot take such a woman as wife.
14  In the houses of Allah there can be but one God. The heathen cannot bring their gods into the houses of Allah.
15  So if a woman will not cast off her gods, and accept Allah, she cannot become your wife.
16  These, my beloved, are the things concerning wives, except  of course, those things that are understood by all.  That a man should not marry his sisters, or a father his daughters, and any that do this are not right with Allah, and should be put out of The Faith and cast off into some other nation.
17  These are the things concerning wives, my brothers.  Treat them well and honorably, and it will be good with Allah.

1  Now, brothers and sisters, I must speak to you of fidelity. For it is important to Allah that you be faithful, one to another, and this is good.
2  Now, some of your bretheren who keep but one wife, will say to you "Well, you can't be faithful, you have more than one wife!  How can you be faithful in these circumstances?"
3  Answer them thusly. "Each wife that came into my house agreed that she was to honor and respect the other, and that nothing was to be done without her consent.  That each would have a time that you would be in their beds, and they would not be left alone.
4  When such agreements are made, fidelity is intact, for it is agreed to by all.  But when a man goes out and throws down a coin and goes into a whore without his wives knowing, fidelity is not intact.
5  A man who is married and his wives are so insufficient that he needs a whore, is not much of a man, indeed!
6  The whore is for the widower, and, the unskilled young man.  She is not for the man who has wives.
7  This is as it should be, and is the way that is good before Allah.
8  Now, if a man should be caught with another man's wife, he should be castrated.  For he has violated the fidelity of that family.  No man should be with another man's wife unless the husband has given him consent with the wives' consent.
9  Allah knows that this sometimes will be done. It is not always pleasing to Him, but if it is done rightly it is acceptable.
10  These, brothers and sisters, are the ways of fidelity that Allah wants you to keep. Remember them, and keep them well!