Alexander Ross, The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. (1649)

ye have known them, deal well with them, and dismiss them with mildness and civility. O Prophet! we permit thee to know the women to whom thou hast given dowry, the womenslaves which God hath given thee, the daughters of thine Uncles, and of thine Aunts, that have abandoned with thee the company of the wicked; and the true-believing wife that shall be given thee, if thou wilt marry her, and that she be not the wife of a true-believer. We know what we have commanded true-believers, touching their wives and their slaves; we have instructed thee therein, to the end thou offend not God, he is gracious and merciful to such as obey him. Thou shalt retain whom of thy wives thou shalt desire to retain, and shall repudiate such as thou shalt desire to repudiate, and shalt lye with them that shall please thee; it is better that thou repudiate them without offending God, than to see them malecontented, and sad; they shall be contented with the good that thou shalt do to them, in divorcing them; God knoweth what is in your hearts, he is Omniscient, and most merciful. It is not lawful for thee to know other women then thine own, it is not lawful for thee to exchange them, although the beauty of others please thee, except thy slaves; God regardeth all. O ye that believe! enter not into the houses of the Prophet without permission, except at the hour of repast, and that by chance, and without design; if ye are invited, enter with freedom; when ye shall have taken your repast, depart out of the house, and tarry not to discourse one with another, this molesteth the Prophet, he is ashamed to bid you be gone, but God is not ashamed to tell you the truth. The wives of the Prophet shall have the face covered when ye shall speak unto them, this better resented of purity both in them and in you, You ought not to importune the Prophet of God, neither to know his wives; this would be a most enormous sin; if ye conceal any design, or discover it, know that God knoweth all. They shall not offend God in suffering themselves to be seen of their fathers, their children, their brethren, their nephews, their maidservants, and their she slaves, they shall fear God, he seeth all; God and the angels * pray for the Prophet. O ye that believe! pray