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Is there a Rajm (Stoning Punishment for Adultery) Verse in the Qur'an?
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Okuyan
Regarding the crime of adultery in the Qur'an there are verses of Surah an Nur 24/2 and Nisa 4 / 15-16. In Surah an-Nisa 4/15 there is the regulation about Lesbian criminal, and in the verse 16 there is criminal regulation on homosexuality. Regulation on adultery is in Surah an Nur 24/2. Here, without any discrimination between married and unmarried an exposure punishment of birching 100 times, a limited exposure to the skin, the Celde, the blow to the skin, not bleeding, non-darkening, breaking, and not offending, witnessed by a group is asked.
Rajm is a punishment referred to Holy Book. There is information that the Arabs imposed this punishment. Even there are narrations that Hz. Prophet has practiced that I do not think that these narratives would have been practiced by our Prophet because they are contrary to the Qur'an. Even if it was implemented, it was done before the Qur'an's verses with criminal provisions relating to adultery sent down. Moreover, there are many points in need of explanation in the events that are mentioned as maiz and gamidiyah.
In Islamic culture, although the books mention rajm, which should be assumed as a punishment contrary to the Qur'an. Actually rajm means expel. It should be understood in terms of the isolation, exposition and removal of adulterers from the society. If we use rajm this way to expel, exclusion in the sense that if we take it is okay. But it is quite wrong to perceive this as a death penalty. Because the death penalty is the equivalent of killing. Since there is no killing in adultery, there is no death penalty. Moreover, for example, In Surah al-Ahzab, 33/30 it is commanded for the wives of the Prophet O wives of the Prophet, whoever of you should commit a clear immorality - for her the punishment would be doubled two fold. If the punishment of adultery is to kill with rajm, the second time of a woman is not understandable. There is no such thing. Even in Surah an Nisa 4/25 God commands But once they are sheltered in marriage, if they should commit adultery, then for hem is half the punishment for free [unmarried] women. We cannot mention half of the rajm, that is to say, killing with stones, but when we accept the punishment as one hundred canes, we say that twice as two hundred and half as fifty canes. Thus, although we accept the rajm as a concept of this culture, I can easily say that it is a violation of the Qur'an's balance of crime and punishment.