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24. LIGHT (AL-NUR)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

1 This is a chapter which We for truly God is forgiving
have revealed and which We and merciful.
have made obligatory; We have 6 One who accuses his wife
sent down clear revelations in it, and has no witnesses except
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so that you may take heed. Flog himself shall swear four times
the adulteress and the adulterer, by God that his charge is true,
each one of them, with a hundred 7 and the fifth time, that God’s
lashes. Let no pity for them curse may be upon him if he is
cause you to disobey God, if you telling a lie. 8 The wife shall
truly believe in God and the Last receive no punishment, if she
Day; and let their punishment be bears witness four times in the
witnessed by a number of name of God that her husband
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believers. 3 The adulterer shall has lied and, a fifth time that
marry only an adulteress or a God’s wrath will be upon her if
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polytheist woman, and an he is telling the truth. Were it
adulteress shall marry only an not for God’s grace and His
adulterer or a polytheist man; mercy upon you, [you would
such marriages are forbidden for have come to grief] and God is
believers. wise, acceptor of repentance.
4 Those who defame chaste 11 Those who brought up
women, but cannot produce that slander were a band from
four witnesses, shall be among you. Do not regard it
given eighty lashes. Do not as a misfortune, for it is
accept their testimony ever good for you. Every one of
after, for they are transgressors, them shall be held to account
5 save those who afterwards for the sin he has committed;
repent and make amends, and he who took the greater part