The Holy Quran 24:19 — Surah An-Nur

Arabic text

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَن تَشِيعَ ٱلْفَـٰحِشَةُ فِى ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

Translation

There shall be an excruciating (grievous) punishment in this world and in the Aakhirah for those who love immorality (and who love the news of immoral behaviour) to spread among the Mu'mineen. Allaah knows (the gravity of every sin) and you do not know (you should therefore abstain from everything that Allaah forbids without question).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The punishment of those who spread indecency: that is, [they love] that depravity should spread, or that reports of depravity should spread. Those who wished this were the hypocrites. But by mentioning them [Allah] also warned the believers: if, let us suppose, an evil thought passed through someone's heart and he even carelessly let some word slip from his…

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