The adulteress and the adulterer who have not surely been previously in marriage, the punishment of each of them both is a hundred lashes with the whip, and it was surely established in the Sunnah along with this lashing the exile for the period of a year. And let not the compassion by them both carry you on the leaving of the punishment or its lightening, if you were confirmers with Allah and the Last Day working by the rulings of Islam, and let a number from the believers witness the punishment; as a denouncing, a rebuking, an exhortation, and a lesson.