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is truer than their testimony. We have not committed perjury. If we had
we would indeed be wrongdoers.' That makes it more likely that they
will give their evidence properly or be afraid that their oaths will be re-
futed by subsequent oaths. Have fear of Allah and listen carefully. Allah
does not guide deviant people. (Surat al-Ma'ida, 106-108)
Those who make an accusation against their wives and have no wit-
nesses except themselves, such people should testify four times by
Allah that they are telling the truth. (Surat an-Nur, 6)

THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR OATHS
AN EXCUSE FOR NOT DOING GOOD
Do not, by your oaths, make Allah a pretext to avoid good action
and guarding against and putting things right between people. Allah
is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Surat al-Baqara, 224)

THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR OATHS
A MEANS OF DECEIT
Do not be like a woman who spoils the thread she has spun by un-
ravelling it after it is strong, by making your oaths a means of deceiving
one another, merely because one community is bigger than another.
Allah is only testing you by this. He will make clear to you on the Day
of Rising the things about which you differed. (Surat an-Nahl, 92)
Do not make your oaths a means of deceiving one another or your
foot will slip after it was firmly placed and you will taste evil for bar-
ring access to the Way of Allah and you will have a terrible punish-
ment. (Surat an-Nahl, 94)

THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR OATHS INTO A CLOAK
They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah, so
they will have a humiliating punishment. (Surat al-Mujadala, 16)
They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of
Allah. What they have done is truly evil. (Surat al-Munafiqun, 2)