ٱلنِّسَاء : ١٥

  • وَٱلَّـٰتِي And those who
  • يَأۡتِينَ commit
  • ٱلۡفَٰحِشَةَ [the] immorality
  • مِن from
  • نِّسَآئِكُمۡ your women
  • فَٱسۡتَشۡهِدُواْ then call to witness
  • عَلَيۡهِنَّ against them
  • أَرۡبَعَةٗ four
  • مِّنكُمۡۖ among you
  • فَإِن And if
  • شَهِدُواْ they testify
  • فَأَمۡسِكُوهُنَّ then confine them
  • فِي in
  • ٱلۡبُيُوتِ their houses
  • حَتَّىٰ until
  • يَتَوَفَّىٰهُنَّ comes to them
  • ٱلۡمَوۡتُ [the] death
  • أَوۡ or
  • يَجۡعَلَ makes
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • لَهُنَّ for them
  • سَبِيلٗا a way
Those who commit immorality [i.e., unlawful sexual intercourse] of your women - bring against them four [witnesses] from among you. And if they testify,1 confine them [i.e., the guilty women] to houses until death takes them or Allāh ordains for them [another] way.2
Footnotes
1 The witnesses must swear to actually having seen the act taking place.
2 The "other way" (i.e., penalty) was later revealed in 24:2, canceling the ruling in this verse.
As for those of your women who commit lewdness, adultery, call four, Muslim men, of you to witness against them; and if they witness, against them such [lewdness], then detain them in their houses, and prevent them from mixing with people, until, the angels of, death take them or, until, God appoints for them a way, out of it. This was stipulated for them at the very beginning of Islam, but then a way out was appointed for them through [the stipulation] that the virgin should receive a hundred lashes and be banished for a year, and the married woman be stoned. The prescribed punishment was explained thus in the hadeeth, 'Come listen to me! Come listen to me! God has now made a way out for them', as reported by Muslim.