The Women
4. An-Nisā’
النساء
Page #80
4:15
وَاللَّاتِي
يَأْتِينَ
الْفَاحِشَةَ
مِن
نِّسَائِكُمْ
فَاسْتَشْهِدُوا
عَلَيْهِنَّ
أَرْبَعَةً
مِّنكُمْ
فَإِن
شَهِدُوا
فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ
فِي
الْبُيُوتِ
حَتَّى
يَتَوَفَّاهُنَّ
الْمَوْتُ
أَوْ
يَجْعَلَ
اللَّهُ
لَهُنَّ
سَبِيلًا
wa-llātī yaʾtīna l-fāḥishata min nisāʾikum fa-stashhidū ʿalayhinna ʾarbaʿatan minkum fa-ʾin shahidū fa-ʾamsikūhunna fī l-buyūti ḥattā yatawaffāhunna l-mawtu ʾaw yajʿala llāhu lahunna sabīlan
Should any of your women commit an indecent act, produce against them four witnesses from yourselves, and if they testify, detain them in [their] houses until death finishes them, or Allah decrees a course for them.
— Ali Quli Qarai
If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence of four (Reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or Allah ordain for them some (other) way.
