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And let not pity for them withhold you from enforcing the sentence of Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of the Believers witness their punishment." Commentary: According to the conditions of persons, there are different judgments of fornication. In this verse, only one of its cases is referred to, the case that if a celibate man or woman commits fornication, each of them will be flogged with one hundred stripes.

But if a person who has spouse and commits adultery, the punishment is stoning to death. If someone who has spouse, but he or she can not reach him or her (for example the spouse is behind bars), and commits fornication, the judgment of stoning to death is changed to stripes.

The holy Qur'an counts fornication as an indecency and horrible deed and prohibits it where it says: "And do not approach fornication ..."[^1], and it counts the abundance of fornication as a sign for the true servants of Allah, where it says: "The (faithful) servants of the Beneficent (Allah) are those who.nor commit formation ..."[^2], and again it considers [^1] Sura 'Isra No. 17, verse 32 [^2] Sura Al-Furqan, No.

25, verse 63 and 68 the avoidance of committing this sin as the condition for the allegiance with the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) as, in another occurrence, the Qur'an says: "O Prophet! When believing women come unto thee, taking oath of allegiance unto thee that they ...will neither steal nor commit (or fornication) adultery ... "[^1] After this general statement of the verse, the first decisive and determining ordinance about fornicatress and fornicator is presented.

It says: "The fornicatress and the fornicator, scourge you each one of them (with) a hundred stripes..." To emphasize more, the Qur'an adds: "... And let not pity for them withhold you from enforcing the sentence of Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day...." Finally, at the end of the verse to conclude this Devine punishment, another matter is added, where it says: "...