Persian → English transcript

These people who are arrested now,

what is their legal sentence from the viewpoint of the Quran?

It has given three rulings.

These people who are now in our prisons have three sentences.

We are not sugarcoating anything. I am translating the verse,

and I have given you the references here. Tomorrow no one will be

able to accuse me. If I do not say it, I have betrayed the Quran.

The Quran must be translated correctly.

It says, first:“ an yuqattalu”— they should be tortured to death. Not just killed.

This is the verse.

Our esteemed scholars who are experts in exegesis should advise us if we are

translating it incorrectly. “ Aw yusallabu”— they should be hanged on the gallows.

“ Aw tuqattaʿa aydīhim wa arjuluhum min khilāf.” Then it says they should be

amputated in a bad state, cut, their right hand with their left foot.

That is really something. Their right hand should be cut, four fingers,

and on the left foot their toes should be cut off. They should be left like this

in society. “ Aw yunfaw mina al- ard.” And exile, they should be banished.

Not that they send them to Shiraz, which also has good weather.

They should send them to the middle of the sea, you can at least find some

rickety old ship. For him to live there

until he dies. That is disgrace for them in

this world.