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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[24:1]

(Here is) a surah which We have revealed and enjoined, and wherein We have revealed plain tokens, that haply ye may take heed.

[24:2]

The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes. And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of believers witness their punishment.

[24:3]

The adulterer shall not marry save an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress none shall marry save an adulterer or an idolater. All that is forbidden unto believers.

[24:4]

And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony - They indeed are evil-doers -

[24:5]

Save those who afterward repent and make amends. (For such) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

[24:6]

As for those who accuse their wives but have no witnesses except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing) by Allah that he is of those who speak the truth;

[24:7]

And yet a fifth, invoking the curse of Allah on him if he is of those who lie.

[24:8]

And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bear witness before Allah four times that the thing he saith is indeed false,

[24:9]

And a fifth (time) that the wrath of Allah be upon her if he speaketh truth.

[24:10]

And had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Wise, (ye had been undone).