Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 384
The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muḥammad Mustafa sa shall have his share of what he has earned of the sin; and he among them who took the chief part therein shall have a grievous punishment. Why did not the believing men and believing women, when you heard of it, think well of their own people, and say, 'This is a manifest lie?' (24:12-13). Then the punishment for false accusation of adultery was promulgated through the revelation of the following: وَالَّذِيْنَ يَرْمُوْنَ الْمُحْصَنَتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَأْتُوْا بِأَرْبَعَةِ شُهَدَاءَ فَاجْلِدُوْهُمْ ثَمُنِيْنَ جَلْدَةً وَّلَا تَقْبَلُوْا لَهُمْ شَهَادَةً اَبَدًا ، وَالْئِكَ هُمُ الْفَسِقُوْنَ لا 384 walladhina yarmūnal muḥṣanāti thumma lam ya'tū bi arbaʻatin shuhada'a fajlidūhum thamānīna jaldatañwwa la taqbalū lahum shahādatan abadan wa ula'ika humul fasiqūn. And those who calumniate chaste women but bring not four witnesses flog them with eighty stripes, and never admit their evidence thereafter, and it is they that are the transgressors. (24:5) ra. In pursuit of the above Qur'anic injunction, those who had spread the false accusation of Ḥadrat 'A'ishah" were flogged eighty stripes each. Hadrat 'A'ishah's health improved and she returned to her quarter. Soon she reclaimed her previous high status in the heart and mind of the Holy Prophet" and with all the Muslims. . An Interesting Episode sa. Hadrat Muhammad bin Qais" bin Makhramah bin Muttalib once said: "Should I relate to you an incident from myself and my