Islam Guidance

verse42

(42) سَمَّاعُونَ لِلْكَذِبِ أَكَّالُونَ لِلسُّحْتِ فَإِن جَآؤُوكَ فَاحْكُم بَيْنَهُم أَوْ أَعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْ وَإِن تُعْرِضْ

عَنْهُمْ فَلَن يَضُرُّوكَ شَيْئًا وَإِنْ حَكَمْتَ فَاحْكُم بَيْنَهُمْ بِالْقِسْطِ إِنَّ اللّهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُقْسِطِينَ

42. " (They are) listeners to (any) lie, and devour the unlawful; therefore, if they come to you, judge between them or turn away from them; and if you turn away from them, they will harm you nothing; and if you judge, judge between them with equity; verily Allah loves the just."

Commentary:
Some of the Jews, who had committed adultery, came to the prophet to judge. They hoped to escape from the retribution of stoning, which exists in the religion of the Jews,(1) while the Islamic law for the adulterer is stoning, too. When they saw that the ordinance of Islam was the same as it was in their own religion, they did not accept it.
The Arabic term /suht/, used in this verse, according to the Islamic traditions, means: ' bribery ' and the gifts given for the fulfilemnt of an affair. It also means: ' destruction ' or ' the thing which causes destruction'.
The verse says:
" (They are) listeners to (any) lie, and devour the unlawful; therefore, if they come to you, judge between them or turn away from them; and if you turn away from them, they will harm you nothing; and if you judge, judge between them with equity; verily Allah loves the just."

(1) The Turah, Deuteronomy, Chapter 22, No. 21-26

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