as for those persons who charge chaste women with false accusations but do not produce four witnesses flog them with eighty stripes and never accept their evidence afterwards for they themselves are transgressors except those who repent and reform themselves allah is forgiving and merciful.
والذين يرمون المحصنات ثم لم يأتوا بأربعة شهداء فاجلدوهم ثمانين جلدة ولا تقبلوا لهم شهادة أبدا وأولئك هم الفاسقون إلا الذين تابوا من بعد ذلك وأصلحوا فإن الله غفور رحيم