24: The Light

Injustice
Cruelty and Violence
Intolerance
Women
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Contradictions
Interpretation
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Injustice in Surah 24

  1. Scourge adulterers and adulteresses with 100 stripes. Do not show them any pity. Have a party of believers watch the punishment. 24:2

  2. Only adulterers can marry adulteresses. Believers are not to marry them. 24:3

  3. If you accuse an honorable women of adultery, be sure to bring four witness. Otherwise you will receive 80 lashes. 24:4

  4. A husband can accuse his wife of adultery with only one witness. 24:6

  5. Those who spread slander will face an awful doom. 24:11

  6. Those who murmur will face an awful doom. 24:14

  7. Those who traduce virtuous, believing women ... cursed are they in the world and the Hereafter. Theirs will be an awful doom." 24:23

  8. Vile women are for vile men, and vile men for vile women. 24:26

  9. Believing women must lower their gaze and be modest, cover themselves with veils, and not reveal themselves except to their husbands, relatives, children, and slaves. 24:31

  10. Disbelievers are miscreants. 24:55

  11. Disbelievers will never escape the Fire that will be their home. 24:57

  12. It's okay for believers to own slaves. 24:58

  13. The only true believers are those who believe in Allah and his messenger. 24:62