A man who is fornicator does not (like to) may but a woman who is a fornicator or a polytheist. And a woman who is a fornicator does not (like to) may but a man who is a fornicator or a polytheist. And this (i.e. preferring to marry such spouses) has been prohibited for the believers.

And those who accuse the chaste women (of fornication), but they do not produce four witnesses, flog them with eighty stripes and do not accept their any evidence any more, and they are the sinners,

except those who repent afterwards and mend their ways; then, Allah is All-Forgiving, Very-Merciful.

And those who accuse their wives (of adultery) and they have no witnesses except their own selves, then the evidence of one of them would be to swear four oaths by Allah that he is from among the truthful,

and the fifth (oath) that Allah's curse be on him if he is from among the liars.

And it will remove the punishment from the woman if she swears four oaths by Allah that he (the accuser husband) is certainly from among the liars,

and the fifth (oath) that Allah's wrath be on her if he is among the truthful.

And had it not been for the grace of Allah upon you and His mercy and (had it not been) that Allah is Most-Relenting, All-Wise (you would have been ruined).

Those who have come up with the false imputation are a gang among you. Do not think it is bad for you; rather, it is good for you. Everyone of them is liable for what he earned of the sin. And the one who undertook the major part of it, for him there is a mighty punishment.

] Why - when you (0 believers) heard of it - did the believing men and the believing women not think well on their own selves and (why did they not) say, ` This is a manifest lie'.