ٱلزَّانِيَةُ وَٱلزَّانِي فَٱجۡلِدُواْ كُلَّ وَٰحِدٖ مِّنۡهُمَا مِاْئَةَ جَلۡدَةٖۖ وَلَا تَأۡخُذۡكُم بِهِمَا رَأۡفَةٞ فِي دِينِ ٱللَّهِ إِن كُنتُمۡ تُؤۡمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلۡيَوۡمِ ٱلۡأٓخِرِۖ وَلۡيَشۡهَدۡ عَذَابَهُمَا طَآئِفَةٞ مِّنَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ٢
Az-zāniyatu waz-zānī fajlidū kulla wāhidim minhumā mi'ata jaldatin walā ta'khudhkum bihimā ra'fatun fī dīnillāhi in kuntum tu'minūna billāhi wal-yawmil-ākhiri walyashhad 'adhābahumā tā'ifatum minal-mu'minīn
The [unmarried] woman or [unmarried] man found guilty of sexual intercourse972 - lash each one of them with a hundred lashes,973 and do not be taken by pity for them in the religion [i.e., law] of Allāh,974 if you should believe in Allāh and the Last Day. And let a group of the believers witness their punishment.
Footnotes
972 Either by voluntary confession of the offender or the testimony of four male witnesses to having actually seen the act take place. Otherwise, there can be no conviction.
973 The ruling in this verse is applicable to unmarried fornicators. Execution by stoning is confirmed in the sunnah for convicted adulterers.
974 i.e., Do not let sympathy for a guilty person move you to alter anything ordained by Allāh, for in His law is protection of society as a whole.