وَالَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَأْتُوا بِأَرْبَعَةِ شُهَدَاءَ فَاجْلِدُوهُمْ ثَمَانِينَ جَلْدَةً وَلَا تَقْبَلُوا لَهُمْ شَهَادَةً أَبَدًا وَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ

Popular Translations

Muhammad Asad

And as for those who accuse chaste women [of adultery], and then are unable to produce four witnesses [in support of their accusation], flog them with eighty stripes and ever after refuse to accept from them any testimony - since it is they, they that are truly depraved

Arthur John Arberry

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

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

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;

Arabic

وَٱلَّذِینَ یَرۡمُونَ ٱلۡمُحۡصَنَـٰتِ ثُمَّ لَمۡ یَأۡتُوا۟ بِأَرۡبَعَةِ شُهَدَاۤءَ فَٱجۡلِدُوهُمۡ ثَمَـٰنِینَ جَلۡدَةࣰ وَلَا تَقۡبَلُوا۟ لَهُمۡ شَهَـٰدَةً أَبَدࣰاۚ وَأُو۟لَـٰۤىِٕكَ هُمُ ٱلۡفَـٰسِقُونَ ۝٤

Transliteration (2021)

wa-alladhīna yarmūna l-muḥ'ṣanāti thumma lam yatū bi-arbaʿati shuhadāa fa-ij'lidūhum thamānīna jaldatan walā taqbalū lahum shahādatan abadan wa-ulāika humu l-fāsiqūn