Page 149 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

Qur'an, as the supposed scholars in question suggest, then how
could there be two very different pronouncements on the subject of
adultery? There could not, of course, and this is just further evidence
of fraud. Now let us set out the only valid pronouncement of our
Lord in the Qur'an on the subject of adultery through verses:

Adultery in the Eyes of the Qur'an

The pronouncement on adultery in the Qur'an is as follows:

A woman and a man who commit fornication: flog both of them
with one hundred lashes [jalda]... (Qur'an, 24:2)
Jalda implies a small stick rather than a large one. In the time of

the Prophet (pbuh), this was done by tying 100 sticks together, and
the pronouncement was fulfilled by striking the adulterer just once
with 100 sticks tied together in this way.

Apart from that, another point needing to be emphasized is that
we can see from other statements on the subject that the punishment
of the lashes in question is meant to be a deterrent, and one that
could not really be administered in practice:

But those who make accusations against chaste women and then
do not produce four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and
never again accept them as witnesses. Such people are deviators.
(Qur'an, 24:4)
As can be seen from this verse, in order to be able to accuse a
woman of adultery, four people have to have seen her at the time.
These must be eye-witnesses to the act of adultery, not people who

saw her before or after it because it would be mere supposition to
make that allegation before or after. Since it is in practice not possible
for four people to witness an act of adultery, this is clearly intended
as a deterrent.

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