Such are the truthful, and such are those who avoid evil deeds.

Such are the truthful, and such are those who avoid evil deeds.'' يَـأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْقِصَاصُ فِى الْقَتْلَى الْحُرُّ بالْحُرِّ وَالْعَبْدُ بِالْعَبْدِ وَالاُْنْثَى بالأُنْثَى فَمَنْ عُفِىَ لَهُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ شَىْءٌ فَاتِّبَاعٌ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَأَدَآءٌ إِلَيْهِ بِإِحْسَـن ذَلِكَ تَخْفِيفٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَرَحْمَةٌ فَمَنِ اعْتَدَى بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَلَهُ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ(( 178 )) 178- O, YOU WHO BELIEVE!

RETALIATION IS PRESCRIBED FOR YOU IN CASES OF MURDER, FREE MAN FOR FREEMAN, SLAVE FOR SLAVE, FEMALE FOR FEMALE, BUT IF ANY REMISSION IS [ 189 ] MADE TO ANY ONE BY HIS (AGGREIVED) BROTHER (THE RETALIATION BEING REDUCED TO BLOOD MONEY) LET THE PURSUING BE HONOURABLE, AND LET THE PAYMENT BE IN KINDLINESS. THIS IS AN ALLEVIATION FROM YOUR LORD AND A MERCY. THEN WHOEVER EXCEEDS THE LIMITS AFTER THAT, FOR HIM IS A PAINFUL CHASTISEMENT.

وَلَكُمْ فِى الْقِصَاصِ حَيَوةٌ يَـأُوْلِى الاَْلْبَـبِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ(( 179 )) 179- AND IN RETALIATION THERE IS LIFE FOR YOU, O, YOU MEN OF UNDERSTANDING, THAT YOU MIGHT AVOID EVIL THE COMMENTARY OCCASION OF REVELATION (VERSE NO. 178) In pre-Islamic era, the Pagan Arabs, for the blood-feud of one individual, who was killed from their tribes, would kill as many men and women as they could! They were even willing to massacre a whole tribe to retaliate a single murder of their own clan.

This verse and the next make it clear that…

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