The Criterion
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[25:68]
and who never invoke any [imaginary] deity side by side with God, and do not take any human being’s life – [the life] which God has willed to be sacred – otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice, and do not commit adultery.
And [know that] he who commits aught thereof shall [not only] meet with a full requital

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* v.68 : See sūrah 6, note 148.
* Lit., “he who does that (dhālika),” i.e., any of the three sins referred to in this verse. (For my translation of zinā as “adultery,” see sūrah 24, note 2.)