Chapter 24 - Light

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. [Cancelled by verse 24:32]^397
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 - [Cancelled by verse 5:24]^398
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