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you you should forgo. Have fear of Allah–Allah is girls who are believers. Allah knows best about
severe in retribution. (59:7) your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’permission and give
FORM (OF A PERSON) them their dowries correctly and courteously as
It is He Who forms you in the womb however He married women, not in fornication or taking them
wills. There is no god but Him, the Almighty, the as lovers. When they are married, if they commit
All-Wise. (3:6) fornication they should receive half the punish-
We created you and then formed you and then ment of free women. This is for those of you who
We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ are afraid of committing fornication. But being pa-
and they prostrated–except for Diabolis. He was tient is better for you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
not among those who prostrated. (7:11) Merciful. (4:25)
It is Allah Who made the earth a stable home for Today all good things have been made lawful for
you and the sky a dome, and formed you, giving you. And the food of those given the Book is also
you the best of forms, and provided you with lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. So
good and wholesome things. That is Allah, your are chaste women from among the believers and
Lord. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. chaste women of those given the Book before you,
(40:64) once you have given them their dowries in mar-
He is Allah–the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of riage, not in fornication or taking them as lovers.
Form. To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. But as for anyone who rejects faith, his actions will
Everything in the heavens and earth glorifies come to nothing and in the hereafter he will be
Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (59:24) among the losers. (5:5)
He created the heavens and the earth with truth And do not go near to fornication. It is an indecent
and formed you, giving you the best of forms. act, an evil way. (17:32)
And He is your final destination. (64:3) A woman and a man who commit fornication: flog
both of them with one hundred lashes and do not
FORNICATION (ZINAH) let compassion for either of them possess you
If any of your women commit fornication, four of where Allah’s religion is concerned, if you believe
you must be witnesses against them. If they bear in Allah and the Last Day. A number of believers
witness, detain them in their homes until death re- should witness their punishment. (24:2)
leases them or Allah ordains another procedure for A man who has fornicated may only marry a
their case. If two of you commit a like abomina- woman who has fornicated or a woman of the
tion, punish them. If they repent and reform, leave idolaters. A woman who has fornicated may only
them alone. Allah is Ever-Returning, Most Merciful. marry a man who has fornicated or a man of the
(4:15-16) idolaters. Doing such a thing is forbidden for the
And also (forbidden for you are) married women, believers. (24:3)
except for those you have taken in war as slaves. But those who make accusations against chaste
This is what Allah has prescribed for you. Apart women and then do not produce four witnesses:
from that He has made all other women lawful for flog them with eighty lashes and never again ac-
you provided you seek them with your wealth in cept them as witnesses. Such people are devia-
marriage and not in fornication. When you con- tors–except for those who after that repent and put
summate your marriage with them give them their things right. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
prescribed dowry. There is nothing wrong in any (24:4-5)
further agreement you might come to after the Those who make an accusation against their wives
dowry has been given. Allah is All-Knowing, All- and have no witnesses except themselves, such
Wise. (4:24) people should testify four times by Allah that they
If any of you do not have the means to marry free are telling the truth and a fifth time that Allah’s
women who are believers, you may marry slave- curse will be upon them if they are lying. (24:6-7)
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