o you who have attained to faith! just retribution is ordained for you in cases of killing the free for the free and the slave for the slave and the woman for the woman. and if something is remitted to a guilty person by his brother this shall be adhered to with fairness and restitution to his fellowman shall be made in a goodly manner. this is an alleviation from your sustainer and an act of his grace. and for him who none the less wilfully transgresses the bounds of what is right there is grievous suffering in store for in just retribution o you who are endowed with insight there is life for you so that you might remain conscious of god!
يا أيها الذين آمنوا كتب عليكم القصاص في القتلى الحر بالحر والعبد بالعبد والأنثى بالأنثى فمن عفي له من أخيه شيء فاتباع بالمعروف وأداء إليه بإحسان ذلك تخفيف من ربكم ورحمة فمن اعتدى بعد ذلك فله عذاب أليم ولكم في القصاص حياة يا أولي الألباب لعلكم تتقون