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Chapter 24: 

Al-Noor (the light)
Total Verses:  64 Revealed At:  Madina

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In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

024.001 Y:  A sura which We have sent down and which We have ordained in it have We sent down Clear Signs, in order that ye may receive admonition.

P:  (Here is) a surah which We have revealed and enjoined, and wherein We have revealed plain tokens, that haply ye may take heed.

S:  (This is) a Chapter which We have revealed and made obligatory and in which We have revealed clear communications that you may be mindful.

024.002 Y:  The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes:  Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day:  and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment.

P:  The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes.  And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day.  And let a party of believers witness their punishment.

S:  (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.

024.003 Y:  Let no man guilty of adultery or fornication marry and but a woman similarly guilty, or an Unbeliever:  nor let any but such a man or an unbeliever marry such a woman:  to the Believers such a thing is forbidden.

P:  The adulterer shall not marry save an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress none shall marry save an adulterer or an idolater.  All that is forbidden unto believers.

S:  The fornicator shall not marry any but a fornicatress or idolatress, and (as for) the fornicatress, none shall marry her but a fornicator or an idolater; and it is forbidden to the believers.

024.004 Y:  And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations),- flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their evidence ever after:  for such men are wicked transgressors;-

P:  And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony — They indeed are evil-doers —

S:  And those who accuse free women then do not bring four witnesses, flog them, (giving) eighty stripes, and do not admit any evidence from them ever; and these it is that are the transgressors,

024.005 Y:  Unless they repent thereafter and mend (their conduct); for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.