If a married female slave commits zina, is she not to be stoned?
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The questioner : ... If a married female slave commits zina?
The Shaykh :[An-Nisa 4:25].
The questioner : How is that?
The Shaykh : Fifty.
The questioner : If she is married?
The Shaykh : Yes, fifty lashes.
The questioner : A free woman is stoned.
The Shaykh : Yes, until she dies. And this one is lashed fifty times, because this is what allows for the halving of the punishment.
The questioner : ... If she is, for example, a virgin?
The Shaykh : If she is a married woman and commits zina while she is a slave, she receives fifty lashes.
The questioner : So if she is married?
The Shaykh : What does "married" mean?
The questioner : Married, meaning she has a husband.
The Shaykh : ... The married woman receives half the punishment of the free woman, and what allows for the halving is the lashing.
The Shaykh :
But once they are sheltered in marriage, if they should commit adultery, then for them is half the punishment for free [unmarried] women
فإذا أحصن فإن أتين بفاحشة فعليهن نصف ما على المحصنات من العذابThe questioner : How is that?
The Shaykh : Fifty.
The questioner : If she is married?
The Shaykh : Yes, fifty lashes.
The questioner : A free woman is stoned.
The Shaykh : Yes, until she dies. And this one is lashed fifty times, because this is what allows for the halving of the punishment.
The questioner : ... If she is, for example, a virgin?
The Shaykh : If she is a married woman and commits zina while she is a slave, she receives fifty lashes.
The questioner : So if she is married?
The Shaykh : What does "married" mean?
The questioner : Married, meaning she has a husband.
The Shaykh : ... The married woman receives half the punishment of the free woman, and what allows for the halving is the lashing.