The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 346
CH. 24 AN-NŪR PT. 18 فَإِذْ لَمْ يَأْتُوا بِالشُّهَدَاء فَأُولَيكَ عِندَ اللهِ they have not brought the هُمُ الْكَذِبُونَ required witnesses, they are indeed liars in the sight of Allah!2601 وَلَوْلَا فَضْلُ اللهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَتُهُ فِي Were it not for the grace of. 15 الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ لَمَسَّكُمْ فِي مَا أَفَضْتُمْ ,in this world and the Hereafter فِيْهِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ ® Allah and His mercy upon you, a great punishment would have befallen you for the slander into which you plunged. إِذْ تَلَقَّوْنَهُ بِأَلْسِنَتِكُمُ وَتَقُولُونَ When you received it and. 16 then talked about it with your بِأَفْوَاهِكُم مَّا لَيْسَ لَكُمْ بِهِ عِلْمٌ tongues, and you uttered with وَتَحْسَبُونَهُ هَيْنًا وَهُوَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ عَظِيمٌ your mouths that of which you had no knowledge, and you thought it to be a light matter, while in the sight of Allah it was a grievous thing. 2602 "2:65; 4:84. against accusing Muslim men and women of crimes of which they were quite innocent. 2601. Commentary: As stated above, not only does Islam take a very serious view of the crimes against chastity and punishes them severely, it is also very sensitive about the good reputation of Muslim men and women and takes very effective steps to safeguard it. Islam regards it as highly reprehensible and even criminal to spread false accusations against them. According to this verse, he who accuses a Muslim man or woman of adultery and does not produce four witnesses to prove his allegation shall be held to be a liar and treated as such by the Islamic Law even if he can produce one, two or even three persons as eye-witnesses to the act. The fact of one person seeing another person committing this immoral act does not entitle him to go about spreading the evil report. 2260 2602. Important Words: For (you received it) see 2:38. Commentary: The verse purports to say that the evils mentioned above are moral sins which are, unfortunately committed light-heartedly, but which produce very grievous results. Every sin is a deadly poison which a true believer