Punishment for Zina

First is all, it is incumbent to know that A person cannot be accused of Zina, Except one of the following conditions are met. 

The Qazi (religious judge) in a sharia court relies on: 

• an unmarried woman’s pregnancy

• the confession in the Name of Allah or 

• four witnesses to the actual act of penetration.

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Allah The Almighty made the punishment for these sins vary from lashing to stoning to death, along with the humiliation which results from informing the community of the perpetrators of this sin. Allah The Almighty says:

“The fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not pity withhold you in their case, in a punishment prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of the believers witness their punishment.

This is for unmarried persons, but if married, the punishment is to stone them to death.” 

[Quran, 24: 2]

The Prophet (Pbuh) set the penalty for adultery and fornication as follows:

“If the parties (committing fornication) are unmarried, they should receive a hundred lashes and be put into exile for a year. If they commit adultery after they are married, they should receive a hundred lashes and then be stoned to death.”

 [Muslim]