الزَّانِي لَا يَنكِحُ إِلَّا زَانِيَةً أَوْ مُشْرِكَةً وَالزَّانِيَةُ لَا يَنكِحُهَا إِلَّا زَانٍ أَوْ مُشْرِكٌ وَحُرِّمَ ذَلِكَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
The fornicator will not marry anyone but a fornicatress or an idolatress, and the fornicatress will be married by none except a fornicator or an idolater, and that is forbidden to the faithful.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 24:3
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 24:3] Islam prescribes a healthy and orderly sex life, for men and for women, at all times-before marriage, during marriage and after the dissolution of marriage-in order to maintain a respectable society. Those guilty of adultery or fornication are shut out of the marriage circle of chaste men and women so that the gross immoral contamination should not spread among the healthy and normal members of the society. Aqa Mahdi Puya says: This verse refers to the general trend and tendency of those men and women who can be described as habitual offenders. Hurrima implies that the believers dislike and detest such people. Nikah means wedlock as well as cohabitation. It is not a legislative ordinance, therefore there is no abrogation.