[4:15]
As for those of your women who are guilty of
lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if
they testify (to the truth of the allegation) then confine them to the houses
until death take them or (until) Allah appoint for them a way (through new
legislation).
[4:16]
And as for the two of you who are guilty
thereof, punish them both. And if they repent and improve, then let them be.
Lo! Allah is ever relenting, Merciful.
[4:17]
Forgiveness is only incumbent on Allah toward
those who do evil in ignorance (and) then turn quickly (in repentance) to
Allah. These are they toward whom Allah relenteth. Allah is
ever Knower, Wise.
[4:18]
The forgiveness is not for those who do
ill-deeds until, when death attendeth upon one of them, he saith: Lo! I repent now; nor yet for those who die while they are
disbelievers. For such We have prepared a painful
doom.
[4:19]
O ye who believe! It is not lawful for you forcibly
to inherit the women (of your deceased kinsmen), nor (that) ye should put
constraint upon them that ye may take away a part of that which ye have given
them, unless they be guilty of flagrant lewdness. But consort with them in
kindness, for if ye hate them it may happen that ye hate a thing wherein Allah
hath placed much good.