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witnessed by a number of believers.
The adulterer may marry only an adulteress or an idolatress; and the
adulteress may marry only an adulterer or an idolater. True believers
are forbidden such (marriages).
Those that defame honourable women and cannot produce four
witnesses shall be given eighty lashes. And do not accept their
testimony ever after, for they are great transgressors-except those
among them that afterwards repent and mend their ways. Allah is
Forgiving, Merciful.
And those who accuse their wives and have no witnesses except
themselves, let each of them testify by swearing four times by Allah
that his charge is true, calling down in the fifth time upon himself the
curse of Allah if he is lying. But they shall spare her the punishment if
she swears four times by Allah that his charge is false and calls down
Allah's wrath upon herself if it be true.
If it were not for Allah's grace and mercy on you and that He is
Forgiving and Wise, (He would immediately uncover your sins and
hasten your punishment).
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Those who invented that slander were a number of your own
people. Do not regard it as a misfortune, for it has proved an
advantage. Each one of them shall be punished according to the sin he
committed. As for himwho had the greater share in it, his punishment
Shall be terrible indeed.
When you heard it, why did the faithful, men and women, not think
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1. Reference here is made to a lie aboutAisha, Muhammad's wife.
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