In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

This is a chapter which We have sent down and appointed; and in it We have sent down clear verses in order that you will remember. (1)

You shall lash the fornicatress and the fornicator each with a hundred lashes. In the religion of Allah, let no tenderness for them seize you if you believe in Allah and the Last Day; and let their punishment be witnessed by a party of believers. (2)

The fornicator shall marry none but a fornicatress or an idolatress; and the fornicatress none shall marry her but a fornicator or an idolater; that is forbidden to the believers. (3)

Those who accuse chaste women, and cannot produce four witnesses, you shall lash them with eighty lashes. And never accept their testimony, for they are evildoers, (4)

except those among them that afterwards repent and mend their ways. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (5)

And those who accuse their wives and have no witnesses except themselves, let them testify by swearing by Allah four times that he is of the truthful, (6)

and the fifth time, that the curse of Allah shall be upon him, if he should be of the liars. (7)

But the punishment will be averted from her if she swears four times that he is of the liars, (8)

and on the fifth time the Wrath of Allah shall be upon her if he is of the truthful. (9)

If it were not for the bounty of Allah to you and His Mercy, and that Allah turns, and is the Wise, (10)