S:  Allah admonishes you that you should not return to the like of it ever again if you are believers.

024.018 Y:  And Allah makes the Signs plain to you:  for Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom.

P:  And He expoundeth unto you the revelations.  Allah is Knower, Wise.

S:  And Allah makes clear to you the communications; and Allah is Knowing, Wise.

024.019 Y:  Those who love (to see) scandal published broadcast among the Believers, will have a grievous Penalty in this life and in the Hereafter:  Allah knows, and ye know not.

P:  Lo! those who love that slander should be spread concerning those who believe, theirs will be a painful punishment in the world and the Hereafter.  Allah knoweth.  Ye know not.

S:  Surely (as for) those who love that scandal should circulate respecting those who believe, they shall have a grievous chastisement in this world and the hereafter; and Allah knows, while you do not know.

024.020 Y:  Were it not for the grace and mercy of Allah on you, and that Allah is full of kindness and mercy, (ye would be ruined indeed).

P:  Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Merciful, (ye had been undone).

S:  And were it not for Allah’s grace on you and His mercy, and that Allah is Compassionate, Merciful.

024.021 Y:  O ye who believe! follow not Satan’s footsteps:  if any will follow the footsteps of Satan, he will (but) command what is shameful and wrong:  and were it not for the grace and mercy of Allah on you, not one of you would ever have been pure:  but Allah doth purify whom He pleases:  and Allah is One Who hears and knows (all things).

P:  O ye who believe!  Follow not the footsteps of the devil.  Unto whomsoever followeth the footsteps of the devil, lo! he commandeth filthiness and wrong.  Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, not one of you would ever have grown pure.  But Allah causeth whom He will to grow.  And Allah is Hearer, Knower.

S:  O you who believe! do not follow the footsteps of the Shaitan, and whoever follows the footsteps of the Shaitan, then surely he bids the doing of indecency and evil; and were it not for Allah’s grace upon you and His mercy, not one of you would have ever been pure, but Allah purifies whom He pleases; and Allah is Hearing, Knowing.

024.022 Y:  Let not those among you who are endued with grace and amplitude of means resolve by oath against helping their kinsmen, those in want, and those who have left their homes in Allah’s cause:  let them forgive and overlook, do you not wish that Allah should forgive you?  For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

P:  And let not those who possess dignity and ease among you swear not to give to the near of kin and to the needy, and to fugitives for the cause of Allah.  Let them forgive and show indulgence.  Yearn ye not that Allah may forgive you?  Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.