| 41 2176 It was said by the Jews : Go to Muhammad; it he commands you to blacken the face and award flogging as punishment for adultery , then accept it, but it he gives verdict for stoning, then avoid it | We find stoning to death as punishment prescribed in the Torah |
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| Had you not asked me in the name of Allah, I would not have given you this information | So We decided to blacken the face with coal and flog as a substitute punishment for stoning |
We then said: Let us argree on a punishment which we can inflict both upon the rich and the poor.
3| But this crime became quite common amongst our aristocratic class | up to is vouchsafed unto you, accept it v |
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| He then commanded and he the offender was stoned to death | It was then that Allah, the Majestic and Great, sent down these verses : And they who do not judge in accordance with what Allah has revealed are, indeed, deniers of the truth v |
Thereupon Allah's Messenger ﷺ said: O Allah, I am the first to revive Thy command when they had made it dead.