The Light
24. An-Nūr
النور
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24:4
وَالَّذِينَ
يَرْمُونَ
الْمُحْصَنَاتِ
ثُمَّ
لَمْ
يَأْتُوا
بِأَرْبَعَةِ
شُهَدَاءَ
فَاجْلِدُوهُمْ
ثَمَانِينَ
جَلْدَةً
وَلَا
تَقْبَلُوا
لَهُمْ
شَهَادَةً
أَبَدًا
وَأُولَئِكَ
هُمُ
الْفَاسِقُونَ
wa-lladhīna yarmūna l-muḥṣanāti thumma lam yaʾtū bi-ʾarbaʿati shuhadāʾa fa-jlidūhum thamānīna jaldatan wa-lā taqbalū lahum shahādatan ʾabadan wa-ʾulāʾika humu l-fāsiqūna
And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations),- flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors;-
— Abdullah Yusufali
As for those who accuse chaste women and do not bring four witnesses, strike them eighty lashes, and never accept any testimony from them after that, and they are transgressors,
