So when we caught hold of any rich person indulging in this offence we spared him, but when we caught hold of a helpless person we imposed the prescribed punishment upon him | |
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He the Holy Prophet called one of the scholars amongst them and said: I ask you in the name of Allah Who sent down the Torah on Moses if that is the prescribed punishment for adultery that you find in your Book |
All these verses were revealed in connection with the non-believers.
141 2176 It was said by the Jews : Go to Muhammad; it he commands you to blacken the face and award flogging as punishment for adultery , then accept it, but it he gives verdict for stoning, then avoid it | 45 ; And they who do not judge in accordance with what God has revealed-they are the iniquitous v |
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But this crime became quite common amongst our aristocratic class |
It was then that Allah, the Majestic and Great, sent down these verses : And they who do not judge in accordance with what Allah has revealed are, indeed, deniers of the truth v.
17We find stoning to death as punishment prescribed in the Torah | So We decided to blacken the face with coal and flog as a substitute punishment for stoning |
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Allah, the Majestic and Glorious, sent down this verse : O Messenger, the behaviour of those who vie with one another in denying the truth should not grieve you |
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