Explanation of some Qur’anic verses of Adultery and Marriage

Those who commit unlawful sexual intercourse of your women – bring against them four [witnesses] from among you. And if they testify, confine the guilty women to houses until death takes them or Allah ordains for them [another] way.

And the two who commit it among you, dishonour them both. But if they repent and correct themselves, leave them alone. Indeed, Allah is ever Accepting of repentance and Merciful.’

If any women commit adultery, then verify it by bringing four witnesses. If the witnesses bear testimony to that, then confine them to their houses until they die, or until another verse is revealed concerning them. (Later verse 24:2 was revealed.)

And if two men commit sodomy, or if a man and a woman commit adultery, then have them dishonoured somehow in court unless they clearly show signs of repentance and remorse. This is because Allah has accepted their repentance and will always do so, and will show them mercy.

And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their head cover over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.

And marry the unmarried among you and the righteous among your male slaves and female slaves. If they should be poor, Allah will enrich them from His bounty, and Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing.

But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty. And those who seek a contract [for eventual emancipation] from among whom your right hands possess – then make a contract with them if you know there is within them goodness and give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you. And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, if they desire chastity, to seek [thereby] the temporary interests of worldly life. And if someone should compel them, then indeed, Allah is [to them], after their compulsion, Forgiving and Merciful.

Tell Muslim women not to look lustfully at men that they are not married to, and not to engage in sexual activity with anyone but their husbands. Tell them to cover everything apart from their faces and their hands, and not show their earrings or necklaces, and only take off their hijabs in front of close male relatives who do not include cousins, but who include uncles and nephews, and female slaves that they own, or eunuchs, children and the mentally retarded who are not attracted to women. And let women not intentionally try and show off the anklets that they are wearing.

And encourage unmarried people to get married. If they are poor or are slaves, Allah will help them anyway.

If anyone has absolutely no financial means to get married, then he should just be patient and try his hardest to keep away from sin. If any of your slaves wish to buy their freedom, and you think that they are good people, then let them do so, and give them zakat and waive a certain amount of the agreed price. Just because your women slaves have to obey you, it doesn’t mean you can force them into prostitution to get some petty fee. That is forbidden, and you shouldn’t do it, especially if they don’t want to. But if they are forced into prostitution, and they try their best to get out of doing it, then Allah will not take them to task at all.

Please see as well:

Committing Adultery in an Unhappy Marriage

What Exactly Is Zina?

How Can I End an Extra-Marital Affair?