Ref.note: Adultery-Quran-24:2

Ref.note: Adultery-Quran-24:2
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🌐Note-1:-Before dealing with this claim, let us first read the verses referred to:

The adulteress and the adulterer, you shall lash each of them a hundred lashes. Do not let pity for them overcome you in applying God's religion if you believe in God and the Last Day, and let a group of believers witness their punishment. 24:2

For the ones who commit an immorality among your women, call to witness four from among you against them. If they do bear witness, then you shall confine them to the homes until death claims them, or until God devises for them a way out. 4:15

And you shall punish the male couple among you who commit it. Then if they repent and reform, you shall leave them alone. God is Redeemer, Merciful. 4:16

1- The punishment for adultery for men is the same as that for women. It is prescribed in 24:2, and it is 100 lashes.

2- The words in 4:15 and 4:16 doe not speak about adultery but about homosexual activities. In 4:15 the subject is two women and in 4:16 the subject is two men.

3- In 4:15, God set a punishment for women who commit lesbian activities, however in 4:16 God left the punishment to be decided by the community "you shall punish the male couple among you who commit it". 

4- The words "Then if they repent and reform, you shall leave them alone" in 4:16 do not cancel the punishment which is due to the male couple. The words "Then if" at the beginning of the sentence mean that if they repent and reform after they receive the punishment, that they are not to be harassed or degraded by anyone.
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🌐Note-2:-Public shaming, though it has long been abandoned in Western world, is one of the tools we may use against crimes. The Quran gives high importance to the institution of marriage. Social and psychological problems experienced among millions of children because of the breakdown of marriage institution in otherwise prosperous Western countries justify the importance of marriage. Additionally, the harms of the promiscuous lifestyle to the health and well being of the society is another reason why the Quran takes marriage contract so seriously and issues a harsh penalty for its violation.

The verse emphasizes public shame rather than inflicting physical pain. The word JaLDa does not mean a stick, but something that will touch the skin, since the word jalda is a derivative of a word that is used for skin (JeLD).

Shaming is a social and psychological penalty. For such a penalty to be effective, researchers suggest the fulfillment of the following conditions: (1) The convict must be a member of a particular group; (2) The group must approve of the penalty; (3) The shaming penalty should be delivered to the group and group should ignore the convict for a period physically, emotionally, and economically; (4) The convict who is wished to be shamed must fear the group's decision to cut the relation; and (5) The convict must have a means to regain the trust of the group.

First we should be reminded that there is no stoning-to-death punishment for adultery in Islam. The punishment of stoning was introduced to the Islamic law long after prophet Muhammed through fabricated hadith. It is the followers of Sunni and Shiite sects that adopted the Jewish practice and fabricated the most ridiculous stories, such as the story of a hungry holy goat eating a verse about stoning, etc. The followers of hadith and sunna accept the Jewish practice and the related silly stories by claiming that "these verses are not clear about adultery; thus, hadith and sunna explain these verses." Knowing the excuse of those who associate other partners with God, the first two verses rebut the claim of the unappreciative people by asserting the clarity of its language.

The origin of stoning is found in the Old Testament. For instance:

"But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you." (Deuteronomy 22:20-21)

According to the Old Testament, a rapist should be forced to marry the girl he violated. This rule punishes the victim to share the rest of her life with the violent and shameless man who violated her (Deuteronomy 22:28-30 ). How can this and many other unjust laws be imposed by a Just God? (See 2:59; 2:79; 5:13; 5:41; 7:162; 9:31).

See Leviticus 20:2,27 ; 24:14; Numbers 15:35 ; 35:17; Deuteronomy 13:10 ; 17:5; 22:21; Joshua 7:25 ; 1 Kings 21:1-29 . Also, see the Quran: 3:36.
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🌐 Note-3:- Az-Zani & Az-Zaniah = Those who are habitual adulterers, like As-Saariq means a habitual thief. Jaldah from skin implies that the lashes must be superficial on the skin. And the presence of a group of believers clearly indicates the punishment as a means of deterrence and not torture. Nowhere does the Qur’an ordain the barbaric punishment of stoning to death anyone for any crime. Lewdness: 4:15, 25. Punishment as a deterrent: 5:38. Capital punishment for rape: 33:60:61. Notice that the punishment would, in general, apply to adultery committed in public since it is almost always done in privacy with anyone seldom being a witness.
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