Surah Noor
A chapter We have revealed, and which We have prescribed, wherein We have revealed clear signs so that you may remember.
- Thomas Cleary
The adulterer and the adulteress are each to be whipped a hundred strokes; and don’t let compassion for them overcome you where it concerns obedience to God if you believe in God and the last day. And let a group of believers witness their punishment.
- Thomas Cleary
An adulterer or fornicator is not to marry anyone but an adulteress or a fornicatrix, or a pagan woman; and an adulteress or fornicatrix is not to be married except to an adulterer or fornicator, or a pagan. But that is forbidden to the believers.
- Thomas Cleary
As for those who accuse chaste women, but fail to produce four witnesses, whip them eighty strokes and never take testimony from them ever, for they are the ones who are immoral,
- Thomas Cleary
except those who repent after that and make amends; for God is most forgiving, most merciful.
- Thomas Cleary
As for those who accuse their own spouses without any witnesses but themselves, let the evidence of one of them be given four times, testifying in the name of God that he is telling the truth,
- Thomas Cleary
with the fifth affirmation being that God shall curse him if he is lying.
- Thomas Cleary
But it would ward off the penalty from her if she testifies four times in the name of God that he is in fact lying,
- Thomas Cleary
with the fifth affirmation being that God should be angry at her if he is telling the truth.
- Thomas Cleary
But were it not for the grace of God on you, and divine mercy, and the fact that God is most conciliatory and most judicious.
- Thomas Cleary