The Law of Adultery in Bible versus Quran

By Dr. Ibrahim Khalil
The Law of Adultery in the Bible

The Lord Commands not to commit adultery
If a man commits adultery with a woman, the LORD Commands to kill both the adulterer and the adulteress.
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The Lord Commands not to commit adultery

Exodus 20:14 King James Version (KJV)
14Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:18 King James Version (KJV)
18Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Leviticus 18:20 King James Version (KJV)
20Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
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If a man commits adultery with a woman, the LORD Commands to kill both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Leviticus 20:10
King James Version (KJV)
10And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22 (KJV)

22If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:23-24 (KJV)
23If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
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The Law of Adultery in the Noble Quran

Allah Commands: "Do not come anywhere near the fornication"; this is more effective than saying ‘Do not commit adultery’
As for the adulterer and the adulteress, Allah Commands to flog each one of them with a hundred stripes and let a party of believers witness their punishment
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"Do not come anywhere near the fornication"
Chapter 17: AL-ISRA, [17:32]

﴿32﴾ Do not draw near to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed); surely it is an indecency and an evil, opening the road (to other evils).

And do not come anywhere near the roads of fornication secretly or openly.
This form of expressing it is more effective than saying ‘Do not commit adultery’.
It is indeed an indecency, an abomination, a transgression, a sin and an evil way to choose.
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As for the adulterer and the adulteress

Chapter 24: AL-NOOR, [24:2]

(2) As for the adulterer and the adulteress, flog each of them with a hundred stripes: let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the last day: and let a party of the believers witness their punishment.

As for the adulterer and the adulteress;
Scourge you each one of them with a hundred stripes (flog each one of them a hundred times)
And let not pity for the twain for applying the legal punishment
Withhold you from obedience to Allah (withhold you from executing Allah's legal ruling on them)
If ye believe in Allah and the Last Day (in resurrection after death)
And let a party of believers witness their punishment so that the punishment is preserved

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What if the Quran was the Book which commands to kill 1) the Uncircumcised, 2) the curser of his parents, 3) the gay, 4) the Zoosexual 5) the worker in the Sabbath! 6) Whosoever tries to turn you away from the LORD and 7) all who live in that town, 8) the prophet, 9) all the Midianites, men, women and boys, 10) the Ox and the Owner and 11) the adulterer and the adulteress.
What the Western Media would have said? What names they have given the Quran in such case?
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Back to the main issue of my series of articles; this is my question to you smart readers: "Is the Quran quoted from the Bible?"


About the author:
Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalil
Prof. of Clinical and Chemical Pathology,
Head of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Unit,
Ain-Shams University., Egypt.
And, President of The Egyptian Society of Inventors.
Member of the Egyptian union of Writers