Surah An-Nur
Quran 24:8
Read Quran 24:8 from Surah An-Nur (The Light) in Arabic, with Pickthall's English translation and the tafsir of as-Sa'di.
Quran verse
Qur'an 24:8
وَيَدْرَأُ عَنْهَا الْعَذَابَ أَنْ تَشْهَدَ أَرْبَعَ شَهَادَاتٍ بِاللَّهِ ۙ إِنَّهُ لَمِنَ الْكَاذِبِينَ٨
And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bear witness before Allah four times that the thing he saith is indeed false,
English translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), in the public domain. Digital text from Tanzil.net.
- Surah
- 24. An-Nur (The Light)
- Ayah
- 8 of 64
- Revelation
- Medinan (revealed in Medina)
- Reference
- 24:8
Tafsir as-Sa'di on Quran 24:8
Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman by Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1956), in the original Arabic.
ويدرأ عنها، أي: يدفع عنها العذاب، إذ قابلت شهادات الزوج، بشهادات من جنسها.{ أَنْ تَشْهَدَ أَرْبَعَ شَهَادَاتٍ بِاللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَمِنَ الْكَاذِبِينَ ْ}