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**Eujacwta** · 04-23-2012, 06:42 AM

In Islam, Adultery is punished by stoning and if 4 people claim to have seen someone committing adultery then the punishment is carried out

My question is how do we know the 4 people are telling the truth? 4 people can easily conspire together to kill someone, so what if 4 people accuse someone of adultery and get him killed? They can do it over and over again with anyone whom they hate

Under an Islamic State, what is there to prevent this from happening? This is not something that would take place rarely, it could in fact happen all the time. The Quran only mentions 4 witnesses as the requirement for the punishment, but is that all that is required? Wouldn't that mean that 4 friends can team up together against someone and have him killed by falsely accusing him of adultery?

If four evil people team up to harm others they can harm them in a million ways.

They could make very strong false accusations for all sorts of things in any legal system.

They could also murder the person or do hundreds of other things against them in any legal system.

I don't know why you associate it with the accusation for adultery especially.

04-23-2012, 06:42 AM	#2
Eujacwta Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	In Islam, Adultery is punished by stoning and if 4 people claim to have seen someone committing adultery then the punishment is carried out My question is how do we know the 4 people are telling the truth? 4 people can easily conspire together to kill someone, so what if 4 people accuse someone of adultery and get him killed? They can do it over and over again with anyone whom they hate Under an Islamic State, what is there to prevent this from happening? This is not something that would take place rarely, it could in fact happen all the time. The Quran only mentions 4 witnesses as the requirement for the punishment, but is that all that is required? Wouldn't that mean that 4 friends can team up together against someone and have him killed by falsely accusing him of adultery? If four evil people team up to harm others they can harm them in a million ways. They could make very strong false accusations for all sorts of things in any legal system. They could also murder the person or do hundreds of other things against them in any legal system. I don't know why you associate it with the accusation for adultery especially.
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