An-Nur (The Light)
Surah 24 · Verse 4
And those who accuse chaste women then do not bring four witnesses, flog them (with) eighty stripes and do not accept their testimony forever, and those are the persons who exceed the limits,
The punishment for defaming chaste women is 80% of the punishment for illegal sexual intercourse. Such social evils sometimes ruin the chances of the marriage of descent woman.
