1 Here is a surah with some plain tokens.
2 Whip adulterers and adulteresses with one hundred lashes. Don't disobey Allah by taking pity on them. And let a party of believers witness the punishment.
3 Only adulterers can marry adulteresses. Believers are not to marry them.
4 If you accuse an honorable women of adultery, be sure to bring four witnesses. Otherwise you will receive 80 lashes. Unless you repent and are really sorry.
But a husband can accuse his wife of adultery with only one witness (himself). 8 The accused wife can avoid punishment if she can produce four or five witnesses to prove her innocence. But she can't use her own testimony (like her husband can).
11, 14 Those who spread slander or murmur will have an awful doom. 19 And those who slander will have a painful punishment in this world and in the next.
23Those who falsely accuse virtuous, believing women will be cursed in this world and the next. They will have an awful doom.
26 Vile women are for vile men, and vile men are for vile women.
31 Believing women must lower their gaze and be modest, cover themselves with veils, and not reveal themselves except to their husbands, relatives, children, and slaves. And tell them not to stamp their feet to reveal what they are hiding.
33 If your slaves have been good, set them free. And don't force your female slaves to become prostitutes.
37, 56 Pay the poor their due.
43 Allah sends down hail to smite whomever he wants.
45 Allah created all the animals from water. Some with no legs, some with two, and some with four.
54 Obey Allah and obey the messenger [Muhammad].
55 Disbelievers are miscreants. 57 They can’t escape the fire.
58 Believers should let their slaves leave three times during the day: before prayers at dawn, at noon, and after prayers at night.
60 Older women don't have to dress as modestly as younger women. But it's better if they do.
62 You're a true believer only if you believe in Allah and his messenger.
1 Blessed is He [Allah] who revealed to his slave [Muhammad] the criterion of right and wrong.
4-5 The disbelievers say, “This is just a lie that he has invented. It’s nothing but old men’s fables.”
11 We [Allah] have prepared a flame for those who deny the coming of the hour. 12 They'll be chained together and burned with fire. 13 They will pray for their own destruction.
15 Say: Which do you like better the doom, the garden, or immortality?
19 We will make whoever does wrong taste a great torment.
26 It will be a hard day for disbelievers. 27 They will gnaw on their hands, and say, “I should have gone with the messenger of Allah [Muhammad]!” 34 Their faces will be gathered into hell. 36 Then we'll destroy them, along with everyone who denied our revelations.
37 When Noah's people denied the messengers, we drowned them. We have prepared painful doom for evil-doers.
38 And we completely destroyed the tribes of A'ad, Thamud, Ar-Rass, and many generations in between. 39 We destroyed them all.
40 And they passed by the town with the fatal rain. Didn't they see it?
41 When they see you (Muhammad), they treat you like a joke, saying, “Is this who Allah sent as a messenger?” 42 They'll find out when they see the doom.
52 Don't obey disbelievers. Fight against them.
54 He created man from water.
55 The disbeliever is an enemy to Allah.
68-69 Whoever worships another god besides Allah, or kills others (except in justice), or who commit adultery, will have their doomed doubled on the day of resurrection, and will live there forever.
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