Adultery vs Qazf - What's the difference?
adultery | qazf |
Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.
(Bible) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
(Bible) Faithlessness in religion.
(obsolete) The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
(ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
(obsolete) adulteration; corruption
(obsolete) injury; degradation; ruin
* Ben Jonson
(Islam) False accusation of adultery (zina).
* 1984 , Keith Hodkinson, Muslim Family Law: A Sourcebook
* 1985 , International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Ethnic Studies Report
* 1992 , Asia Watch Committee, Double Jeopardy: Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan
As nouns the difference between adultery and qazf
is that adultery is sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse while qazf is (islam) false accusation of adultery (zina).adultery
English
(wikipedia adultery)Alternative forms
* advowtry (obsolete)Noun
(adulteries)- She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.
- And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. (King James Version)
- (Ben Jonson)
- You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature.
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* *qazf
English
Noun
(-)- It may amount to qazf to impute zina to a deceased person...
- Nor has one heard of anyone being flogged for qazf under this Ordinance.
- The maximum punishment for Qazf is 80 lashes and must be proven by the testimony of two pious Muslim male witnesses, except when the accused is non-Muslim.