A.J.Arberry · MealMerkezi.Net

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A sura that We have sent down and appointed; and We have sent down in it signs, clear signs, that haply you will remember.

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The fornicatress and the fornicator -- scourge each one of them a hundred stripes, and in the matter of God's religion let no tenderness for them seize you if you believe in God and the Last Day; and let a party of the believers witness their chastisement.

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The fornicator shall marry none but a fornicatress or an idolatress, and the fornicatress -- none shall marry her but a fornicator or an idolator; that is forbidden to the believers.

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And those who cast it up on women in wedlock, and then bring not four witnesses, scourge them with eighty stripes, and do not accept any testimony of theirs ever; those -- they are the ungodly,

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save such as repent thereafter and make amends; surely God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.

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And those who cast it up on their wives having no witnesses except themselves, the testimony of one of them shall be to testify by God four times that he is of the truthful,

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and a fifth time, that the curse of God shall be upon him, if he should be of the liars.

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It shall avert from her the chastisement if she testify by God four times that he is of the liars,

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and a fifth time, that the wrath of God shall be upon her, if he should be of the truthful.

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But for God's bounty to you and His mercy and that God turns, and is All-wise --

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Those who came with the slander are a band of you; do not reckon it evil for you; rather it is good for you. Every man of them shall have the sin that he has earned charged to him; and whosoever of them took upon himself the greater part of it, him there awaits a mighty chastisement.

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Why, when you heard it, did the believing men and women not of their own account think good thoughts, and say, 'This is a manifest calumny'?

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Why did they not bring four witnesses against it? But since they did not bring the witnesses, in God's sight they are the liars.

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But for God's bounty to you and His mercy in the present world and the world to come there would have visited you for your mutterings a mighty chastisement.

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When you received it on your tongues, and were speaking with your mouths that whereof you had no knowledge, and reckoned it a light thing, and with God it was a mighty thing --

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And why, when you heard it, did you not say, 'It is not for us to speak about this; glory be to Thee! This is a mighty calumny'?

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God admonishes you, that you shall never repeat the like of it again; if you are believers.

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God makes clear to you the signs; and God is All-knowing, All-wise.

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Those who love that indecency should be spread abroad concerning them that believe -- there awaits them a painful chastisement in the present world and the world to come; and God knows, and you know not.

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But for God's bounty to you and His mercy and that God is All-gentle, All-compassionate --

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O believers, follow not the steps of Satan; for whosoever follows the steps of Satan, assuredly he bids to indecency and dishonour. But for God's bounty to you and His mercy not one of you would have been pure ever; but God purifies whom He will; and God is All-hearing, All-knowing.

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Let not those of you who possess bounty and plenty swear off giving kinsmen and the poor and those who emigrate in the way of God; but let them pardon and forgive. Do you not wish that God should forgive you? God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.

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Surely those who cast it up on women in wedlock that are heedless but believing shall be accursed in the present world and the world to come; and there awaits them a mighty chastisement

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on the day when their tongues, their hands and their feet shall testify against them touching that they were doing.

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Upon that day God will pay them in full their just due, and they shall know that God is the manifest Truth.

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Corrupt women for corrupt men, and corrupt men for corrupt women; good women for good men, and good men for good women -- these are declared quit of what they say; theirs shall be forgiveness and generous provision.

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O believers, do not enter houses other than your houses until you first ask leave and, salute the people thereof; that is better for you; haply you will remember.

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And if you find not anyone therein, enter it not until leave is given to you. And if you are told, 'Return,' return; that is purer for you; and God knows the things you do.

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There is no fault in you that you enter houses uninhabited wherein enjoyment is for you. God knows what you reveal and what you hide.

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Say to the believers, that they cast down their eyes and guard their private parts; that is purer for them. God is aware of the things they work.

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