One of the 240 subdivisions of the Quran (quarter of a Hizb)
This is a sura We have sent down and made obligatory: We have sent down clear revelations in it, so that you may take heed
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Strike the adulteress and the adulterer one hundred times. Do not let compassion for them keep you from carrying out God’s law––if you believe in God and the Last Day––and ensure that a group of believers witnesses the punishment
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The adulterer is only [fit] to marry an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress is only [fit] to marry an adulterer or an idolater: such behaviour is forbidden to believers
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As for those who accuse chaste women of fornication, and then fail to provide four witnesses, strike them eighty times, and reject their testimony ever afterwards: they are the lawbreakers
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except for those who repent later and make amends––God is most forgiving and merciful
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As for those who accuse their own wives of adultery, but have no other witnesses, let each one four times call God to witness that he is telling the truth
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and, the fifth time, call God to reject him if he is lying
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punishment shall be averted from his wife if she in turn four times calls God to witness that her husband is lying
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and, the fifth time, calls God to reject her if he is telling the truth
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If it were not for God’s bounty and mercy towards you, if it were not that God accepts repentance and is wise
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It was a group from among you that concocted the lie––do not consider it a bad thing for you [people]; it was a good thing––and every one of them will be charged with the sin he has earned. He who took the greatest part in it will have a painful punishment
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When you heard the lie, why did believing men and women not think well of their own people and declare, ‘This is obviously a lie’
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And why did the accusers not bring four witnesses to it? If they cannot produce such witnesses, they are the liars in God’s eyes
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If it were not for God’s bounty and mercy towards you in this world and the next, you would already have been afflicted by terrible suffering for indulging in such talk
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When you took it up with your tongues, and spoke with your mouths things you did not know [to be true], you thought it was trivial but to God it was very serious
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When you heard the lie, why did you not say, ‘We should not repeat this- God forbid!- It is a monstrous slander’
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God warns you never to do anything like this again, if you are true believers
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God makes His messages clear to you: God is all knowing, all wise
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A painful punishment waits in this world and the next for those who like indecency to spread among the believers: God knows and you do not
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If it were not for God’s bounty and mercy and the fact that He is compassionate and merciful
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