Message of the Holy Quran — Page 459
~ 459 ~ wrong them, but they wronged themselves. 29:41 for gross improp- riety And such of your women as are guilty of any flagrant impropriety—call to wit- ness four of you against them; and if they bear wit- ness, then confine them to the houses until death over- takes them or Allah opens for them some other way. 4:16 for murder, … And he who slays a be- liever by mistake shall free a believing slave, and pay bloodmoney to be handed over to his heirs, unless they remit it as charity. But if the person slain be of a people hostile to you, and he is a believer, then the penalty is only the freeing of a believing slave, and if he be of a people between whom and you is a pact, then the penalty is blood- money to be freeing of a believing slave…. 4:93 for robbery, And as for the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut off their hands in retribution of their offence as an exemplary punish- ment from Allah… 5:39 for slander, And those who calumniate chaste women but bring not four witnesses—flog them with eighty stripes, and do