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 ْ}